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Posted By: davidcycleback

Explain to the sellers that most offers to end the auction early are because
the buyer feels his offer is lower than what the winning bid will be. Rarely will
he make an offer equal or higher than what he thinks will be the final bid.

However, as I noted, a non baseball card person will often take the low ball offer
as there is little to no bidding in his action early on an he worries it will
end up selling for much less than the offer. Perhaps 200 snipe bids have been
placed, but sellers have no idea how many, if any, snipes are placed-- and, by their
nature, snipes and snipers are secrative from both seller and other collectors.