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Sniping Bas***d

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  • 19-04-2005 10:30am
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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭


    User: nava has two referral links in his sig. Normally I couldn't give a monkeys but one of them is for Ebay sniping which is a practice that I personally find abhorrent. Ecksor, I sure, will do the honourable thing and rape this sig won't he :D

    Example here.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    BattlingCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭BattlingCheese


    excuse my ignorance but what is "sniping" ??


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Sniping is using a program to monitor auctions on Ebay and then leap in 1 second before auction closing with a winning bid. It means that anyone else who was interested in it doesn't have a chance to out-bid you.


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    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    I thought that was the only way to actually win anything on ebay...


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    BattlingCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭BattlingCheese


    ahhh thanks for clearing that up


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    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    RuggieBear wrote:
    I thought that was the only way to actually win anything on ebay...
    Sometimes you can be the sniper, sometimes the sniped.
    Didnt know there was a program for it though. :-\
    I'll have to tell felix hes being replaced........



    sniper.jpg


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    RuggieBear wrote:
    I thought that was the only way to actually win anything on ebay...

    No - the way to win things on Ebay is to proxy bid. These guys don't even do that - they just wait and wait and then pounce.

    Besides - the sniping is just the reason I'm posting about it here - it bugs me. The reason it should be changed is that he has two referrals in the sig. As DeV said elsewhere - "we don't make money out of it so why should you?".

    And in the Sig Rules it says "no nuisance links" too, so there :p


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    LOL @ Felix :D


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    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    my mistake, i didn't realise it was an automated program....that's pretty low alright.


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