Define "sniping"

mact

Is it bidding w/in the last 10 seconds? or bidding really late and outbidding someone else? or just waiting until the end to try to get it for a lower price?

matt

keets

all of the above.

al h.

jom

It seems to be a good way to bid. Place your HIGHEST price you want to pay for the coin and do it as close to the end of the auction as possible. That way your bid can't get run up too much at the end AND you can't complain if you get outbid. If you complain then you didn't place your HIGHEST you were willing to pay for.

jom

mrdq

what if 10 people all placed the same bid on the same coin for the same time, would it be just computer randomness then?

We should do an experiment.. i'll list a coin.. wait.. DEJA VU

baccaruda

everyone wouldn't get the bid in at the same time - the computer would process 1 of the bids first even if they did all arrive at the same time. everyone else would get a "cannot proceed" warning because their bid was not at the minimum (assuming they all bid the same amount as the one who's bid went through.)

it's happened to me before while sniping.

Dog97

Anything less than 5 seconds is a snipe. 1-2 seconds earns your Master Sniper medal.
Mrdq there is no such thing as "at the same time" to a computer.

ARCO

I imagine that if an auction lasted 100 years, that placing a bid within the last 10 days would be considered extremely rude and the vilest form of sniping. Someone would loudly protest that the bidder should have placed it within the first 30 years of so of the auction. Another might say that up to 70 years is civilized etiquite for a proper bid.

It is all relative, The auction lasts whatever time it does and all bids are welcome up till the one millionth nanosecond before the time expires.

Sniping is just a lame way of saying "Damn!.....I got outbid"!

Tyler

BBN

Shooting down the lead bidder at the last second (w/n 10 seconds) IMO