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Hi Jim, No offense taken. In the past, back when I just put in bids when I discovered an auction that I liked, I have had problems with shill bidders. That is when the seller doesn't like the low price, so bids using another id, to shake things up. I was watching one auction, where the...

Hi Jim, There are two sides to every story. I snipe, so I turn the auction into a fixed bid auction. Others like to diddle the numbers up to the maximum they can without winning. Back before I sniped (I started doing it manually), I used to just put my maximum bid in. Then I would watch the...

If the bidder honestly believes the item is worth $1.00, and he loses for $1.01, he has lost because he believes the item is worth only $1.00. If he was willing to pay $1.02, then he should have set his proxy bid for $1.02, not $1.00. He would have lost no matter what; because, if I couldn't...

If everybody snipes, then eBay becomes in effect a sealed bid auction. All the sniper's maximum bids get compared, and the one that is highest wins by one bid increment over the next highest. I would much prefer sealed bids. It removes the emotional bidding madness that some folks get. EBay...

As a long time ebay sniper, I have to say that you are getting annoyed by something that isn't at all what you think it is. When a sniper snipes, he decides what his maximum bid is, and sets his sniper program to send in his bid very shortly before the auction ends. I usually pick 10 seconds...

Being a veteran of DRMO and GSA live auctions, I find the GL auctions to be a great time saver. Here's what it used to be like: First, you subscribed, by snail mail, to the auction sheets for the various bases that were within a geographical area of interest. After you got the sheets (always...

Put in your maximum bid, and walk away. Come back the next morning, and you have either won, or lost... just like eBay. -Chuck