@rafaelecuon-0 wrote:
That's incorrect. Anyone is always willing to add a dollar more but it can't be done with snipe bots outbidding you with no alert, warning or opportunity to counter bid. That's not an auction, it's a scheme.
I'm sensing here that you think the only bid you can make is the current price plus one increment, the amount that eBay shows to you as the next available bid. In fact, that's just the minimum next bid that would be accepted. It may or may not be enough to take the lead.
If the current leader has a a hidden maximum that's much higher than the current price (remember that the auction will be won by no more than the previous high bid plus one bid increment), then you can sit there all day plugging in dollar increment bids, but still not get past whatever the current leader's maximum bid is. You don't need to bid that way. You are entitled to plug in your own high bid in one step, and either exceed the lead bidder's maximum or not.
What you're describing above as "snipe bots" are no such thing. The action you're seeing as "snipe bots outbidding you with no alert [etc.]" is simply eBay itself telling you that your bid was accepted but you are still not yet in the lead. Your bid pushed the price up, but the current leader's maximum bid is something higher than that.
In the final seconds, it is possible for a sniping service to plug in a high bid, but that happens automatically, regardless of whether you are also putting in a last-second bid. The auction is won by the highest bid, not the latest one.
