Sniping means placing a bid in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction.
Any bid placed before the auction ends is "legal" on eBay.
There is a way to protect yourself from snipers and prevent being outbid at the last moment. If you bid the absolute maximum you are willing to pay, our proxy system will do the work for you.
Human nature sometimes makes us resist making the highest bid within our spending limits, but proxy bidding does work.
There is a common misconception that snipers always win. The truth is that they don't. To win, they must outbid you. By placing a proxy bid at your maximum limit, someone else can outbid you only if they are willing to spend more for the item than you are.
If someone places a last-second bid that isn't high enough, they almost never have enough time to get back in and place a winning bid before the auction ends.
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