Snipe strategies?

[mister_not_so_nice]

Anything under 7-10 seconds is all the same. At that point in the auction either someone has already set thier snipe to go off and if it is higher than yours they'll win, whether you go 2seconds or 15seconds. Or they are refreshing down the last minute and 7-10 seconds is barely enough time to post a manual bid. The bottom line of the snipe is to sneak in at the end so no one else knows you are interested/watching, lulling then into a false sense of security and not upping thier bid.

 

and even bottomer liner - highest bid wins no matter when you bid

 

I place manual snipes under 10 seconds all the time. It's not that hard, just have another browser window open with the bid already entered. Refresh one window down to 5 seconds, open the other and hit confirm.

 

Yeah, I used to do this back in the 90s also

 

But the point is your bid is set beforehand(same as if you were using a program. If you're refreshing an auction and at 8-9sec you see the price spike, at that time it is not easy to enter a new higher max, go to the confirm page and submit.

[MutantKeys]

Real men use 1 window.

 

No, real dumb men use 1 window.

[goldust40]

 

and even bottomer liner - highest bid wins no matter when you bid

 

As long as it's an increment higher - I've bid marginally higher or the same as the winning bid in the past, but because my bid was later than that bid, I didn't win.

 

Doesn't even need to be an increment higher. You can win an auction by $.01.

 

If an item is sitting at $50 yet the high bidders has his max at $62.52 I can win the auction by sniping it at $62.53 or higher. If I snipe at $62.50 he will win with $62.52.

 

If you both snipe at roughly the same time.

[seank]

Real men use 3 seconds.

 

 

Real men just throw a crazy high amount and pray none is as foolish as them

 

Nice to know I'm a real man....

 

Thanks to everyone for their input. It looks like I'm on the right path here. Now let's hope I don't get screwed by the server, or a higher snipe, or....

[Dick Pontoon]

Why do you guys want to still leave time for someone else to snipe you? 7 seconds is iffy at best and I've been beat even at 5. You really want to bid as close to the end of the auction as possible.

 

Servers are slow at weekends, especially at peak hours. Those 2 seconds could cost you the item all together.

 

Sometimes I swear nobody reads my posts.

 

It doesn’t matter what your snipe is set at with Auctionsniper if the servers are busy – they will automatically place it earlier than the time you have set the snipe to insure the snipe is placed before the auction ends. I’ll paint you a picture:

 

Let’s say I’ll be out smoking crack and chasing whores and set a Sunday night snipe bid for a copy of Groovie Ghoulies #7. I set my snipe to come in at 5 seconds before the auction ends. The Auctionsniper compooter can tell that there’s lots of traffic, and the servers are running slower than usual. The Auctionsniper system says “To heck with a 5 second snipe, to make sure this bid gets placed in time with all this traffic, we’re sending the snipe at 17 seconds before the auction ends.”

 

October, who loves the Groovie Ghoulies, has plenty of time slapping the F5 key to see my $49 bid in the last seconds, and using the Time-Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows Open Snipe System, throws down a winning $50 bid with 5 seconds left to spare. He originally was only going to bid $45, but figured the extra $5 was worth it for such a great book.

 

Now, if I’d been using BidNip or the Time Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows System, and October bid his max of $45 at 5 seconds and I bid my $49 at 5 seconds when I wanted to, that book would now be mine.

 

Whew!

 

[nik]

I'd rather chase whores and smoke crack

[FlyingDonut]

Whores and crack on a SUNDAY night? You are a WILD MAN.

[cd4ever]

Why do you guys want to still leave time for someone else to snipe you? 7 seconds is iffy at best and I've been beat even at 5. You really want to bid as close to the end of the auction as possible.

 

Servers are slow at weekends, especially at peak hours. Those 2 seconds could cost you the item all together.

 

Sometimes I swear nobody reads my posts.

 

It doesn’t matter what your snipe is set at with Auctionsniper if the servers are busy – they will automatically place it earlier than the time you have set the snipe to insure the snipe is placed before the auction ends. I’ll paint you a picture:

 

Let’s say I’ll be out smoking crack and chasing whores and set a Sunday night snipe bid for a copy of Groovie Ghoulies #7. I set my snipe to come in at 5 seconds before the auction ends. The Auctionsniper compooter can tell that there’s lots of traffic, and the servers are running slower than usual. The Auctionsniper system says “To heck with a 5 second snipe, to make sure this bid gets placed in time with all this traffic, we’re sending the snipe at 17 seconds before the auction ends.”

 

October, who loves the Groovie Ghoulies, has plenty of time slapping the F5 key to see my $49 bid in the last seconds, and using the Time-Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows Open Snipe System, throws down a winning $50 bid with 5 seconds left to spare. He originally was only going to bid $45, but figured the extra $5 was worth it for such a great book.

 

Now, if I’d been using BidNip or the Time Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows System, and October bid his max of $45 at 5 seconds and I bid my $49 at 5 seconds when I wanted to, that book would now be mine.

 

Whew!

I'm sorry, did you say something?

 

Groovy Ghoulies.

[cd4ever]

Whores and crack on a SUNDAY night? You are a WILD MAN.

 

Discount.

[Dick Pontoon]

 

Also, what do you consider when determining what amount to set your snipe?

 

I almost forgot!

 

Bid the maximum you want to pay for the book, an amount that won't give you buyer's remorse if it costs that much as well as an amount that you know you couldn't have gone over in case somebody else outbids you. And if you do get outbid, don't sweat it, there'll be another copy eventually. A wise man once said "They're only funny books."

[Anfield Fox]

Why do you guys want to still leave time for someone else to snipe you? 7 seconds is iffy at best and I've been beat even at 5. You really want to bid as close to the end of the auction as possible.

 

Servers are slow at weekends, especially at peak hours. Those 2 seconds could cost you the item all together.

 

Sometimes I swear nobody reads my posts.

 

It doesn’t matter what your snipe is set at with Auctionsniper if the servers are busy – they will automatically place it earlier than the time you have set the snipe to insure the snipe is placed before the auction ends. I’ll paint you a picture:

 

Let’s say I’ll be out smoking crack and chasing whores and set a Sunday night snipe bid for a copy of Groovie Ghoulies #7. I set my snipe to come in at 5 seconds before the auction ends. The Auctionsniper compooter can tell that there’s lots of traffic, and the servers are running slower than usual. The Auctionsniper system says “To heck with a 5 second snipe, to make sure this bid gets placed in time with all this traffic, we’re sending the snipe at 17 seconds before the auction ends.”

 

October, who loves the Groovie Ghoulies, has plenty of time slapping the F5 key to see my $49 bid in the last seconds, and using the Time-Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows Open Snipe System, throws down a winning $50 bid with 5 seconds left to spare. He originally was only going to bid $45, but figured the extra $5 was worth it for such a great book.

 

Now, if I’d been using BidNip or the Time Tested 2-Handed, 2-Windows System, and October bid his max of $45 at 5 seconds and I bid my $49 at 5 seconds when I wanted to, that book would now be mine.

 

Whew!

 

Hey, they say themselves to keep it to 7 seconds at the weekends. Just quoting their own recommendations. Been a while since i looked it up, maybe it's changed. Before they would say the longer you leave it the safer you'll be because if the server is busy your snipe might not make it.

[MutantKeys]

 

Also, what do you consider when determining what amount to set your snipe?

 

I almost forgot!

 

Bid the maximum you want to pay for the book, an amount that won't give you buyer's remorse if it costs that much as well as an amount that you know you couldn't have gone over in case somebody else outbids you.

Do you ever win like that

[mar-vell]

I'd rather chase whores and smoke crack

 

i was building a parking garage this summer and our first forklift driver was running around smoking crack with $20 whores every night! So much so that he was drooling on himself all the time! No kidding every time he talked there would be this slobber all over himself- it was bizarre! And this was the guy we were trusting to boom up loads to the 3rd and fourth floors! He finally got canned because he admitted to the foreman what was going on(showing up to work still high). I guess everybody needs a hobby!

[Ringfinger]

I'd rather chase whores and smoke crack

 

i was building a parking garage this summer and our first forklift driver was running around smoking crack with $20 whores every night! So much so that he was drooling on himself all the time! No kidding every time he talked there would be this slobber all over himself- it was bizarre! And this was the guy we were trusting to boom up loads to the 3rd and fourth floors! He finally got canned because he admitted to the foreman what was going on(showing up to work still high). I guess everybody needs a hobby!

 

yes, and I was very upset to lose my job...

 

 

I use 3 seconds and Auction Sniper.

[nik]

I'd rather chase whores and smoke crack

 

i was building a parking garage this summer and our first forklift driver was running around smoking crack with $20 whores every night! So much so that he was drooling on himself all the time! No kidding every time he talked there would be this slobber all over himself- it was bizarre! And this was the guy we were trusting to boom up loads to the 3rd and fourth floors! He finally got canned because he admitted to the foreman what was going on(showing up to work still high). I guess everybody needs a hobby!

 

I kid, I kid,

 

I don't smoke crack

[Pirate]

5 seconds

[mschmidt]

Real men use 3 seconds.

 

 

Real men just throw a crazy high amount and pray none is as foolish as them

 

Yeah, no kidding - it doesn't matter one bit whether you snipe at 10, 7, 5, 3 seconds, because if someone snipes higher than you, you're going to get outbid. It's as simple as that.

 

Think about it for a sec - the reason people use sniping software or a sniping service is so that they don't have to sit and watch the auction count down before they place their bid. Which also means that, in general, snipes are set well in advance of the actual auction close. So it doesn't really matter whether you snipe 3 or 10 secs before the auction ends - the snipes that you're competing against will fire no matter what, and if your max bid is lower than theirs, well, then you loose.

[sckao]

Real men use 3 seconds.

 

 

Real men just throw a crazy high amount and pray none is as foolish as them

 

Yeah, no kidding - it doesn't matter one bit whether you snipe at 10, 7, 5, 3 seconds, because if someone snipes higher than you, you're going to get outbid. It's as simple as that.

 

Think about it for a sec - the reason people use sniping software or a sniping service is so that they don't have to sit and watch the auction count down before they place their bid. Which also means that, in general, snipes are set well in advance of the actual auction close. So it doesn't really matter whether you snipe 3 or 10 secs before the auction ends - the snipes that you're competing against will fire no matter what, and if your max bid is lower than theirs, well, then you loose.

 

You're making too much sense. Are you sure you should be on this messageboard?

 

 

[october]

Real men use 3 seconds.

 

 

Real men just throw a crazy high amount and pray none is as foolish as them

 

Yeah, no kidding - it doesn't matter one bit whether you snipe at 10, 7, 5, 3 seconds, because if someone snipes higher than you, you're going to get outbid. It's as simple as that.

 

Think about it for a sec - the reason people use sniping software or a sniping service is so that they don't have to sit and watch the auction count down before they place their bid. Which also means that, in general, snipes are set well in advance of the actual auction close. So it doesn't really matter whether you snipe 3 or 10 secs before the auction ends - the snipes that you're competing against will fire no matter what, and if your max bid is lower than theirs, well, then you loose.

 

You're making too much sense. Are you sure you should be on this messageboard?

 

 

Sure, that's true if every snipe is automatic...but they aren't. I often snipe manually. When I see someone bid, with ten seconds left, I have time to alter the amount I put in. At three seconds I don't have that time, in fact, I won't know if the other person has even bid until the auction is over. Let me break it down for you...

 

I set my manual snipe at $100 with two minutes left, open one browser window with the auction countdown and another with the "confirm bid page"

 

10 seconds left: someone snipes at $110, with a top proxy bid of $130

 

I change my bid to $120

 

I snipe at 3 seconds manually.

 

He pays $122.50 or whatever.

 

 

Second scenario

 

I set my manual snipe at $100 with two minutes left

 

3: seconds left, both he and I enter our snipes

 

He wins for $112.50

 

 

It does matter. The first scenario has played out more times than I can count. Seriously.

 

 

[shiverbones]

i use 4 seconds. has always worked for me.