On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:29:21 GMT, Ignoramus15786 wrote:
On 8 Jul 2005 15:23:21 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:

Or, you could just bid on the damn auction and not try to cheat the
seller out of getting the right price. The only reason to snipe is to
pay less than you would if you were honestly bidding for the item. You
want the item, and you want to pay as little as you can for it. By
lowering yourself to using a sniping product, you're cheating the other
bidders out of the chance to bid legitimately on the item.

I do not see any cheating here. I submit a legitimate bid at a
legitimate moment. I do not owe the seller a duty of giving him as
much money as possible.

And yet, you're using a shady tactic to bid without giving others a
chance to make their bids.

Here's a thought - decide what you want to pay for it, put in a reserve
bid, and wait for the email. If it's more than you wanted to pay, you
wn't get it. Everyone gets to decide how much it's worth, and the guy
who bids the most gets the item. Just like a real auction, where they
don't just say "OK, I know there's 20 people out there who would have
bid more than that, but it's 10:02:47 so the item goes to you".

I realize that I'm not going to change anyone's behavior, but again, I'd
pay extra to list items if they had a "late bids extend end time"
option.