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Originally Posted by doug.goodman
There are two reasons to snipe :
1 - you put in a bid so late that nobody will have time to outbid you.
2 - you put in a bid so late that YOU will not have time to bid again if somebody has outbid you.
Either way, resetting the clock defeats both of those strategies, so of course the prices will go higher, and of course shilling will sometimes be involved.
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I snipe because I am not going to be glued to eBay. I win a fair amount and will win a lot, lot less if there is no sniping. They will do analytics after they test and make a decision. If losing bidders like myself doesn't hurt them as much as it helps the seller, and the seller is happy, that is all that counts. "Money" is almost always the answer.
As said, eBay's customers are their sellers. But if even more people leave than have in the recent few years, then more sellers might leave.