You bid $100 more than you are willing to pay? I am glad it worked for you so far but...

I have often loss auctions because I was not willing to pay $100 more. If I did it your way, I would have won a lot more auctions, but have also paid $100 more than I was willing to pay.

No, I snipe and I enter the max I am willing to pay. If the auction goes over that, then that is ok. I snipe for the same reason as mentioned above, it doesn't beat other snipers, it beats the newbie that bids the minimum increment. I do believe it has saved me money. If the newbie is willing to pay $50 for an item and I am willing to pay $51, I will win. But if I put my max in early, I will pay $51. If I snipe and the newbie is waiting at the pc ready to put the minimum increment, then I might only pay $25, because it doesn't give the increment bidder enough time to enter more bids up to his $50 max.

I also like the "no emotion" part of it. I don't get carried away by the bidding and bid more than I wanted. I see an item that I want. I put the max price down in a file. Start esniper and esniper does all the work for me. Another great thing about esniper is the quantity setting. I was looking for a rear derailer and there were a few that I liked. I entered them all in the file with the max price for each one and set the quantity for "1". Esniper will bid your max for each auction when you tell it to, if you win, it stops, if you don't it will go to the next auction. I think the rear derailer that I won was the third auction on a list of about 5. Oh, and I won it while sitting at a bar on Friday night. I came home and saw that I won.