Originally Posted by
Barabaika
Why would anybody sit and watch how something goes away in the last seconds when the time for bidding is over? When you loose a few auctions because of it, you understand that eBaying is usually a waste of time and buy somewhere else.
If it's a live auction, the auction goes as long as there are new bids.
Most items have typical ending prices. If your bids are below those and you are watching other bidders snap the items up at the end of the listings, you aren't adjusting to how the bidding game works. For popular and hard to find items, more often than not, the items get sniped. Studying completed auctions for ending prices tells a bidder what range they have to bid in to win. If you are in that range you should end up with what you are looking for before too long.