BidBud.com - Sniping - Responding to Snipers

Responding to Snipers		These myths are centered around how people respond to snipers and their actions, if possible
#	Myth	It's not true because...
4.1	There is not much you can do to defend yourself against snipers. Direct from the land of small price.	Stuff and nonsense. This Myth is similar to the one above, but more generic. Specifically, this just says that snipers are unbeatable and gives no reason. This is an outrageous lie. Snipers lose on eBay every day. It's true that certain bidding styles will almost never win against sniping, but that's not our fault. By proxy bidding, or sniping yourself, you can easily beat snipers. Also, this Myth cannot be true for a very basic reason. What if multiple snipers bid on the same item? According to this myth, they must all lose to each other, yet they must all win at the same time. That violates not only the rules of eBay, but also the laws of physics.
4.2	Sniping prevents other people from bidding. Contributed by eBay user easterhope.	I'm not sure if the OP in this case meant re-bidding in the sense of manually responding to another's bid or bidding at all, but the OP used the word "bidding" twice, so for the moment, I'll assume all bidding. When a sniper wants something, he goes into magic mode and, Star-Wars like, uses the "force" to paralyze everybody else in the world and physically prevents their fingers from touching their keyboards. Note that this must happen before the fact, since snipers never bid until the end, yet the auction is somehow targeted by the sniper and their magic begins before they even bid! No bidder can affect another. As an eBay user, I can bid on any auction I want, whenever I want, for any amount that I want, as many times as I want. Nothing any other bidder does can prevent that. As long as you are a registered eBay user, you can bid whenever and however you please. As a sniper, I am powerless to stop you.
4.3	Snipers only push up the price a dollar or so, and that's not worth the aggravation of even trying to counterbid. Direct from the land of small price.	This is not necessarily so. If the current bid is $20.00, but that bidder has a True Max of $80.00, and I snipe with $100.00, I've just pushed the price up $61.00. Even if I snipe with $75.00 and lose, I'm still giving the seller an extra $56.00. Besides, with all the comments about eBays fee increases, I can well believe that for many people, every dollar counts! Even in the cases where this does happen, the sniper is not to blame. If my snipe bid only raises the price by one increment, then the cause is the earlier bidder who did not bid his max. Remember that the top two bidders together decide the price of the item. If I as a sniper bid my max, then I've done my job. I've followed the rules and eBay's suggestion to bid my max once. If you, as the second highest bidder, do not, then YOU are the one who failed to raise the price. I can't make you bid correctly. I can only control my own bidding.