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Originally Posted by Xcaliber037

I snipe all the time. I have the eBay app on my iPhone with push notification. It's the "Barrett .50 caliber" of eBay sniping. My view is purly from a sellers perspective. I have gotten emails from people on items who said that they would purchase it for more if the buyer flakes out. That individual would have bid more if he had time to retaliate if given the chance. What said person should have done is put in the max amount they were willing to bid instead of just the small amount over the previous bidder. That goes on a lot on eBay. Hope that clears things up. You know what would be cool for sellers? If there was a last second bid, the time would extend a small amount like 5 minutes or so. That would allow the last miniute bidding war a chance to continue.
Although for buyers hoping to get it at a bargain that would suck.

This is precisely it:

If you're sniping or placing a bid with plenty of time to spare, the only thing you should ever do is simply bid the maximum amount you would be willing to pay for the item. So yes, even if you're outbid by pennies, you have to set the limit for yourself. Don't get caught up in "bid-upsmanship." "I'm willing to pay $50.00 for that item and not a cent more. If it goes for $51.00 then oh well, that was too expensive for me."

Besides, even if the final price is only a dollar or so more than your maximum price, you have no way of knowing what that final bidder put as -their- maximum price. They might have put in $60, $70, or even $100. So suddenly that "just a dollar or two more" is "$50 more if I want to win."

If you want it THAT BAD then you're simply going to have to place a ludicrously high bid (I'd say about twice what you'd normally think it would go for). That's basically the name of the game: "How bad do you want it?"