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Posted By: sagard

Nobody else is looking for your best interests, not Ebay, not the person making the offer, not the snipers. Therefore you have to do what is best for you and live with your decision.

It takes two snipers with big bids to make an auction work for you. If someone makes you their best offer they may make the bid, or they may move on. No one likes uncertainty as stated above.

You have to make a decision on whether your comfortable potentially leaving money on the table by taking an offer, or risk getting a Ebay beat down from a single sniper.

Let your own moral code determine whether or not you cut Ebay in on the closing of the transaction. I can truly see it both ways. Ebay does deserve to get paid. They get that pay in the listing fee and the FVF. If they do not assist you to close the deal with their hammer, their protections, etc... I would listen to someone argue that Ebay was paid upfront for their services.

I typically know the price I'm willing to take and if I leave money on the table, it is a lesson learned.