How many snipes do you typically set and how far ahead do you set them?

corvette1340

I ask this because I typically have 5-6 set and I set them with around a day or so left in the auction. I am leaving to go out of town for 4 days early Thursday and I have 113 snipes set for stuff ending while I'll be out of town, lol.

Boopotts

Sorry, I only hit overpriced BIN's.

Edit to add: I set snipes as soon as I see something I want. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why the time between the snipe-set and the auction closing would make a difference.

corvette1340

the time they are set doesn't really make a difference. The reason I usually set one with about a day or less left is because I search for "time ending soonest".

In these particular auctions, however, I searched several days in advance because I am working on a project and found several things I want for it that are ending while I'll be out of town.

itzagoner

make sure to leave a key under the mat and some beers in the fridge.

MULLINS5

I manually snipe for three reasons, 1) I like to see how the card is selling 2) Another might go on the market and 3) I might change my mind

jswieton

I set mine up once I see them listed. I will often forget if I try and hold off. I seem to go on buying streaks for some reason. There will be weeks at a time when I don't have any, and there are others where I have 25-30 set up at a time.

mcolney1

Don't go on ebay daily, so I set my snipes 1-3 days out. Sometimes I have up to 15 snipes.

Lately, I have very little I'm bidding on. Not a lot listed in what I'm looking for - PSA football HOFers. I'm only watching 20 right now. And, anything I bid on I'm the under bidder! I'm 10 for 10 over the last week!

PowderedH2O

I'm too poor to snipe that many things. Maybe 2-3 at a time.

Sportsamerica

I usually only snipe 1 day out... I wait until then to see if I want to waste my time setting the snipe, if the price is higher then I want, no snipe...

MBMiller25

I dont use a snipe service. I will manually snipe ocassionally.

RipublicaninMass

currently 2 days 9 hrs ahead

WinPitcher

<< <i> I don't see why the time between the snipe-set and the auction closing would make a difference >>




Guy IMO it only makes a difference if you are not paying for a service and have a limited amount of free snipes.

In that case I could see someone waiting until a certain time to set the snipe as the item might at that time be

more then what they were willing to pay. Either they do that or delete the snipe at that point.


When I was sniping I'd set mine as soon as I saw something, if it exceeded what I was willing to pay I'd then delete the snipe

and set my second choice (6th actually)


Steve