Shill bid or coincidence?

[BobC]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Thanks. I am with you. Sniping is just one of the things that drove me away, but it was a big one. I found it infuriating! It was old railroad timetables. Not nearly as limelight as baseball cards. I would find one with very few or no watchers, no bids, and get sniped at the end. So I asked around, and actually used one once or twice. I think it was called Bid Snapper or something like that. It was a free tool and didn't have any of the bells or whistles like custom bidding, but it would bid at the last possible second. I did not like it, I did not like putting my credentials into it, and I got rid of it and moved on to buy-it-now to the maximum extent possible.

I agree Jim, there are both good AND bad points from using such services. On the one hand, they can help to deter shill bidders and their hijinks, but then on the other hand, you have to put up with issues and conditions as you mentioned. In your case, about the only acceptable and viable solution then is to wait and watch for the auction to end, and then you yourself physically put in your last second bid. Unfortunately, we both know that isn't always easy, or possible, depending on one's schedule and all the different and crazy times auctions can end. Can't always have everything perfectly the way we'd like, can we? LOL