Bugger.

[unixronin]

...that these days, it's an exercise in complete futility trying to buy anything on eBay that anyone else wants, except via Buy It Now, unless you have a multi-megabit connection or an account with one of the automated robot-bid-sniping services.

And to think that when automated bid-sniping first started, eBay banned it because it was unfair.  I guess they musta decided that fairness could go fuck itself, 'cos they made more money off the last-90-seconds bid-sniping wars.

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[attutle.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we see something that you don't.

It will always look like you were narrowly outbid. That doesn't mean someone else doesn't have a significantly higher maximum bid set. Why does it matter to you if the system shows you were narrowly outbid at the last minute or two days earlier?