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Posted By: Red

My guess is that there's a large percentage of auction items won by bidders using a sniping service than those who bid manually. That would also mean there's a lot of underbids coming in via sniping services that will increase the selling price. The higher selling price benefits Ebay because they'll collect more money. A higher selling price benefits the seller who maybe now won't lose as much and might list more stuff to sell. Ebay has been working very hard to come up with new ways to drive off sellers. Now they're working on ways to drive off buyers.