[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding? bidsnipe vs Human

[Julian]

> Is it possible that a human can defeat the best bidsnipe software if they were good enough to place bid in last one or two seconds

As Allen says, there is no need.

Its not the last bid that wins (and, indeed, if both bids are the same value, its the first that wins) but the highest.

Its not relevent who gets the final bid in - all sniping programs do is place a bid somtime near the end of the auction where a 
human can no longer have time to think "oooh, maybee i can pay a little bit more"

The whole ebay bidding thing - ive held off till now, as ebay is quite boring to me ; ) but last time i sold something via auction i 
could see the bidder ids (i know the other bidders cant, but i think the seller still can?)

Evreyone knows about bid sniping now.  Ebay is huge.  Ive lost auctions by less than the bid increment before, and ive also won them 
by the same.  In the cases where ive lost by pennies, the other 'winning' bidder could have thought the same as the original poster, 
but it wasnt ebay, it was me, with my bid snipe program....

Julian

(i guess i should put my web address... http://www.thebeast.co.uk/cnc/  : )