I run a service placing bids the last few seconds on eBay. Every time this happens I lose measurable business (we place thousands of bids per day). While it doesn’t affect scheduled bids, they can’t place bids and are likely to move to a competitor. These recent outages have been costly. Does anyone know a more reliable provider?
Haha, people pay you to bid-snipe on eBay for them? It just baffles me that manual/third-party bid-sniping is still a thing. eBay has had automatic bidding for more than twenty years. You'll pay the same whether you put in the winning bid a week in advance or 5 seconds. But people see that "you lost this auction" notice and they're irrationally convinced that it would have gone differently if they'd bid at the last m…
Also this helps when placing bids on auctions that end when you're asleep and you want to effect the above. I've tried to do it manually in the past but naturally life intervenes and you're somewhere with no signal or in the middle of something. Having tried it both ways sniping is definitely better than regular bidding.