[juangrande]

As a technical point, eBay updates the current bid once per second. This means that the bid increment rules are not used to compare bids that arrive at eBay less than one second apart. Thus, a snipe bid of 100.01 would beat a snipe bid of 100.00 that arrived only a fraction of a second earlier. The fact that eBay updates the current bid only once per second allows for the "ultimate snipe": a 0-second, 0-penny snipe. The only way someone could win with a 0-second, 0-penny snipe is to have their snipe arrive at eBay less than 1 second before auction close and arrive _before_ another snipe for the same amount. I have never seen such a snipe, though.