Google the phrase “eBay sniping service” and you will get a bewildering, large set of results. It’s just more reliable than a locally running program.
It has a faster Internet connection than your consumer or small-business grade connection. Typically, a sniping service runs on a high-reliability server in a data center well designed to prevent downtime. The advantages of using a remote service to place your snipes are real. So the notion that “local is better” is an illusion. A program running locally can transmit your eBay login info to anyone, anywhere, and you will never know it. It really doesn’t matter from a security standpoint. Here we reach the big fork in the road: do you trust your eBay login information to a remote server, or only to software running on your local machine? The catch is that you must give the software your eBay ID and password otherwise, it cannot place a bid for you. Software can synchronize your computer’s clock to “eBay time,” which is really just National Time Service atomic clock time, so there is no win-ruining discrepancy between your PC’s clock and eBay’s. While you go deal with distractions, or just go about your life normally, a bid sniping program can sit there waiting for the precise moment before the auction’s end to submit your bid for you. Lots of things can interfere with a manual snipe. Your Internet connection may choose that exact moment to stall or be lost completely. But manual sniping is crude and unreliable.Īs the clock winds down, a crash in the kitchen and a toddler’s wail may distract, and you miss the end of the auction. Sniping is so popular that eBay actually changed its bid-submission protocol to make it easier. Sniping can be done manually, by placing a bid in the usual way and sitting there, finger hovered over the mouse key that will send the final “confirm bid” acknowledgement and place your bid in eBay’s system. Someone deliberately waited until the last second to place one bid exceeding the auction’s high bid, giving you no time to respond with a higher bid. You lose, and you don’t know what happened.Ī “snipe” is what happened, most likely. 5… 4… 3… and the anticipation of winning swells in you.Īnd then suddenly, the screen refreshes and you see, “You have been outbid – bid again before it’s gone!” But there's not enough time to enter a new bid before the auction ends. You watch the seconds tick down into single digits. you've been the high bidder for hours or days, indicating that everyone else has given up. An auction is ending in just a few seconds.
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