I always win an auction with just seconds to go, but I never bid on them even in the last hour. To me that is just pushing the bid up. I just wait and watch and can figure out where everyone is. I have never lost an auction this way yet. A funny story though,,,, My Mother was new to Ebay and was trying to win an auction so I was trying to teach her how to snipe it. I was sitting here watching the auction and her and this other person had gone back and forth on it for some time so it was then that I told her to stop and snipe it. I hadn't known what she was doing till she told me or I'm sure I could have gotten it for her for much less LOL anyway....I was sitting here watching and had told her when to start her bid process when with 15 seconds left I seen her name pop up! I was horrified! my head hit the screen then with 7 seconds left this other guy comes up and I went in there and sniped it from both of them LOL she was all upset cuz she thought she lost it then she called me and said thank you when she realised it was my name that won.. but what made it so funny was I got an email from the guy that I sniped it from. he was so mad. And rightly so, to him I came out of the clear blue sky and sniped the auction when he thought he only had my mother's competition LOL I emailed him back and said....hey sorry but nobody snipes an auction from my mother! hahahaha
of all the auction's I sniped that one was at least the most fun I had doing it!
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