Even more important, YOU aren't tempted to increase your bid because
of incremental competition.
Tom
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 15:20, Joshua Putnam
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] OT: AuctionSniper -- thanks!" saying:
> Kierstin wrote:
>
> > what is AuctionSniper?
>
> It's a web site (http://www.auctionsnipe.com/) that lets you
> pre-enter your maximum bid for an eBay auction, then the site
> submits your bid automatically in the last few seconds of the
> auction.
>
> This is handy because many people don't trust eBay's automatic
> proxy feature, they put in a relatively low bid and then manually
> increase their bid if someone outbids them. By not putting in
> your own bid until the end of the auction, you deny these people
> the time to manually raise their bids.
>
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