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I’d been an eBay user for years without knowing anything about the art of sniping. I considered myself a fairly seasoned buyer, adept at meandering around eBay, finding bargains and waiting avidly until the last second of auction to try and win them.

I was pretty successful but there were always a confusing number of auction losses, when I know I really should have won an item. I’d put in a good price at the right time but would lose by the smallest of increments. It happened again and again.

It got very frustrating, but I just shrugged it off and decided that it was just down to luck, and that I’d run out of mine on that occasion. I talked about my success/failure rate in auctions with my brother, who runs his own web design agency - he mentioned that earlier in the month he’d discovered and tried a new way of bidding and winning ebay auctions, it was called ’sniping’

I’d been sniped! I felt a bit peeved, but did some research and found out that not only was it a totally legal method of bidding, it was also an online equivalent of a very normal practice in the auction houses - silent bidding, often made via telephone.

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