There's something that feels very wrong about this snipe business. What you are doing is removing the clock and competitive bidding. What's the trend? If everybody ends up using a snipe app, what will an EB "auction" look like. Absolutely no bids until the last nanosecond. How would your mindset be for such an "auction"? "I really want/need this item. I would pay X amount for it. But, I don't want to be beaten by 1 cent so I'll bid X + a nickel. Or, maybe that would be X + a quarter, or maybe X + a dollar." EB was at one time a way for seller to unload items for less than wholesale prices. Sniping turning EB into a marketplace for sellers to extract the last nickel out of your pocket IMHO.