You're not fated to necessarily lose the ebay auctions because of a slow connection.

Once you've decided your top price to pay for an item, you can set up a deal with e-snipe or one of the other sniper sections that will place your bid to win in the last few seconds of the auction

I've never used any of them, but they do work it's said..

I do know how you feel, though, I got in a bidding war over a rare stamp on ebay Germany, a long time ago, and beat out a bidder in Germany for it by 4 seconds

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)