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					Originally Posted by Snapolit1  I've never used one and am not sure of the benefits.If there is an item closing on eBay, why can't I just wait till 3 seconds is left and then bid my maximum and see what happens?
 Does a sniping service do anything different that this?  Just trying to understand the allure.
 Or, if I don't want to bother being at my computer when the auction ends, I can just bid my maximum a few hours before the auction ends and then forget about it.  Wait for an email from eBay.
 Is there something else a sniping service does that I'm missing?
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 You can bid manually with a couple seconds remaining in an auction, but a snipe means that you don't have be watching the auction to put in a last-second bid; that is the allure vs. manually putting in a last-second bid.