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Posted By: T206Collector

GavelSnipe.com is free and you can place a zillion snipes all at once. I certainly do not recommend manually sniping by hitting refresh on ebay as the clock winds down.

The following problems exist with setting your max early and walking away:

(a) You are inviting bids into your proxy bid. Say someone bids with 2 minutes left, hoping they'll be the highest bidder. But if you're higher, they'll see that immediately and bid again. If you waited to snipe, they would have no time to respond with a higher bid.

(b) You are encouraging people to follow an auction. Auctions with more bids get more attention -- and, rarely, people who know that you bid on things can follow your bidding habits to find cards they may like.

There is zero reason not to snipe, and at least two good reasons to snipe.