> Which is why I never understand complaints against eBay "snipers", who bid in the last couple seconds of an auction. If there were only one instance of the t

> Which is why I never understand complaints against eBay "snipers", who bid in the last couple seconds of an auction. If there were only one instance of the thing you wanted, then there would indeed be no reason to complain about snipers. But if there's multiple different auctions, each selling one of the thing you want, you can't bid on a second one until you're outbid on the first one, or you'll risk getting stuck having to buy them both. Snipers thus result in you being "locked out" of the other auctions for way longer than necessary.