Posted By:
Scott ForrestSniping is the way to go.
I enjoy the adrenaline rush of fighting it out at the end for a big auction, but there have been too many times when at the critical moment...
1. Computer froze up or lost my network connection
2. I started writing emails with a few minutes to go, and spaced the damned auction
3. Multiple auctions ended within a short period, and I missed one
On the other hand, when I'm checking on an auction and it just happens to be ending in 10-20 seconds, I figure it's fate and I bid manually and generously.