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I used to get in bidding wars on EvilBay when I first started but after paying way too much for many items, I finally got smart. Now I snipe Auctions! You aviod shill bidders and everything. You simply put in your highest bid at the end of the Auction. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose but you didn't get into a contest with another bidder.


Yup, that's the only way to go. I don't buy things from Ebay auctions very often, but when I do I have found that the best thing to do is put the item I'm interested in on "My Ebay" under "watching", and I let it go for a few days. If it's possible to be at the computer the very moment the auction is scheduled to end, I just pop in there from out of nowhere and snipe it as close to the last possible second as I can. People think they're accomplishing something by bidding early on, but all this does is drive the price up higher before the auction ends.
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