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Old Jul 19, 2005 | 7:57 am
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Sam - DFW
 
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Originally Posted by pdhenry
I've only used eSnipe. The first two weeks of membership are free then they charge you something like 1% of the winning bid. You have to buy "eSnipe points" to pay your fee, and I think the minimum you can buy at a time is $5 worth. I've only won once (the eBay bids the rest of the time have gone above my target bid before the bidding time came) and it was during the free period.
Well the first three wins are free on AuctionSniper, and then the fees are about the same.

The biggest advantage I can see is that you don't have to sit there and wait to enter your bid at the end.

Other than that, it seems no different than manually entering a maximum bid.

Am I missing something?

I guess it prevents you from emotional bidding as well.

What if someone enters the same maximum bid ahead of you. Don't they have an advantage?

Anyway, it seems marginally better - especially since a lot of auctions end at 3-4am my time.

Congrats on 3,000 posts and thanks.

Sam
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