Why don't you snipe Ebay auctions ?. Its so easy, costs very little, and a lot of other winners use it. I won several auctions last week, and I was out working at the time. Go to
www.ezsniper.com , log in with your Ebay ID and put in the item no and max price you want to pay. Then leave it. It will place your bid with about 5 secs to go, and if you have ever tried, you will know its nearly impossible to increase a bid in that time scale. I still occasionally bid manually, I work out the latency in my connection, and place my bid at the latency plus 5 secs before, but the net is such a variable thing that isn't guaranteed to work. Another thing is if you bid early, it shows you are also interested in the item, and alerts other bidders to your interest. Its like playing cards, and showing everyone "look I got an Ace". Shurely you want to keep your hand to your self until it matters. Someone else was complaining about his laptop battery going flat recently. If he sniped it, it wouldn't matter. Hell, I went on holiday a few months ago, I set up several snipes, and left them to it. Over there, I found an Internet Cafe and checked up to see how many I won. Its really that easy, you get 3 free snipes I think. I even won the Wife's car that way. I have used auctionsniper in the past, a slightly better user interface, but it keeps screwing up, Ezsniper works pretty well. I have been outsniped several times, but that's life. If you look at the bidding history of auctions you have missed, Snipers tend to place bids in the last 5 seconds, so you can see how many others are using them. Best of luck, and Don't Bid Against Me !!!!
