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Originally Posted by eskimo
Good luck! Remember, if someone "snipes" you, it means that he was willing to bid higher than you were, plain and simple. A sniper can't "steal" an auction from anyone who understands proxy bidding and acts accordingly, i.e., places his true maximum bid instead of "nibbling" at an auction.
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That is not quite right. Apparently Esnipe will beat even proxy bidding. It places the bid at that last moment, you decide how many seconds, and whatever bid is registering at that last second will win.
So you place a max bid. I set esnipe to a max too. When my bid counters yours, your auto proxy bid counters back. But not without a moment of time lag. My window to "steal" your auction.
If several folks have max bids set for esnipe, which is often the case lately, one gets lucky because the bid stops at a certain moment.
It is a whole new world out there on Ebay.