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What happens when Oakley X Metal worker makes an Oopsie?

Well you don't need automation. You can snipe manually in the last few seconds. Been doing it for years. It's all in the wrist.

But luckily I had to go to a memorial service so I didn't bid on that one. I wanted it but that was money I didn't need to be spending.
 
Well you don't need automation. You can snipe manually in the last few seconds. Been doing it for years. It's all in the wrist.

But luckily I had to go to a memorial service so I didn't bid on that one. I wanted it but that was money I didn't need to be spending.

Note, I don't do this because I personally don't see anything worth bidding for. However, it wouldn't take me long to write up a script capable of the below actions:

You can get it down to the millisecond with a script. For example, I will first factor in the delay time to process the bid. Then, I will open up a world time clock with milliseconds included. I will set the script to run a chain of commands at specified time which it reads in from the world time clock. This specified time would be calculated from bid - delay - input time.

Your way works too - but if you're going up against someone who has written a script then you will lose. Script against script comes down to how efficient the script is.

Hope the memorial went well. Thoughts and prayers!
 
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Your way works too - but if you're going up against someone who has written a script then you will lose. Script against script comes down to how efficient the script is.

Hope the memorial went well. Thoughts and prayers!

No, I will only lose if someone bids higher than me; it doesn't matter who bids last but who bids the most. When you snipe bid, you must bid your true maximum bid.

The advantages of snipe bidding are:
1) It prevents someone you outbid from having time to go place another higher bid.
2) If you're outbid, it prevents you from going back and bidding again higher than you should in the heat of the moment.

And thanks.
 
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No, I will only lose if someone bids higher than me; it doesn't matter who bids last but who bids the most. When you snipe bid, you must bid your true maximum bid.

The advantages to snipe bidding are:
1) It prevents someone you outbid from having time to go place another higher bid.
2) If you're outbid, it prevents you from going back and bidding again higher than you should in the heat of the moment.

And thanks.

True, it doesn't matter who bids last but who bids the most. My situation was factoring in that your bid would be more than previous max bid. So you'd read in the current max bid, add that + your bid increment. I should've been more explicit, my bad.
 
True, it doesn't matter who bids last but who bids the most. My situation was factoring in that your bid would be more than previous max bid. So you'd read in the current max bid, add that + your bid increment. I should've been more explicit, my bad.

Current winning bid and max bids are two different things.

Incremental bids are a loser's strategy. As in, the only way you win making incremental bids is if there's no competition. But, assuming there is competition:

If your script was to do that, take the current max bid + the bid increment in the final milliseconds, you'd lose because the current winning bid is overwhelmingly likely not the max bid of that bidder, an incremental bid won't beat him.

If your script was set to make a continuous series of incremental bids until it is the highest bidder, that's really risky, you could end up way overpaying. I know a guy who's sniped bids for $30K for items that went for around $5K. Can you imagine having your script win an auction for you at 6X what it's worth, especially a high-dollar item? No, there needs to be a cap to it, a maximum bid amount where the script stops. And if you have a maximum bid, there's no need for a script, you can accomplish that with a single manual snipe bid and let eBay's SW handle the incremental part.

The advantage to snipe bidding software / scripts is you don't have to be online and active to place the bid at the time of the auction end. But otherwise there's no competitive advantage.

And really, cutting it down to the final milliseconds risks missing out placing a bid in time due to network latency issues.
 
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