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Posted By: Cat

I actually like sniping from a sellers standpoint. Snipers don't want to inch the price up so they don't put initial bids in, they just place that bid at the highest level which they are willing to buy the item. Non-snipers often only inch the price up until they barely cross the threshold of the then highest bidder. A Sniper who ends up competing with another Sniper often will end up with the card at a price that he/she is willing to pay but far more than they wanted to pay. Sniping doesn't allow the buyer to get cold feet or like a non-Sniper barely cross the threshold of the high bidder and just hope that he/she remains the high bidder.

As a buyer (and I mostly buy), I only snipe. I've bought items that I really wanted at 25% of my snipe.

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