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Posted By: barrysloate

I'm just taking the contrary position that the snipe is overrated. You can manually place a bid with 20-30 seconds to go and the chance that other bidders will refresh their screens, see they need to place another bid, and be able to execute it in time is small. I think sniping is 10% of the formula, being the high bidder is 90%.

I would rather the be the high bidder with a minute to go than the second high bidder in the last millisecond.