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[quote="Cupid"]Well, it works against you if the snipe is late and eBay doesn't get it... but there are other disadvantages to being the last snipe, the bid increment rule means that eBay may reject your bid even if it is higher than the current maximum, whereas sometimes with the auction price being lower a few seconds earlier it would have been accepted with a higher offset.

Another disadvantage is due to the first bid rule on eBay, whereby in the event of two bids of the same amount being accepted from different users the earlier (larger offset) bid wins.

The values for offset are tailor-able, so that you can choose what combination works best for you, some prefer both servers to be trying to place bids at the same time, some don't.

If both servers try to place bids at the same time, sometimes eBay accepts both bids, and this is an indication to others that you are using an automated tool, some don't like that to be evident.

When the offsets are different usually the second is blocked by eBay because eBay do not allow two bids of the same amount from the same account at different times. Then the one with the lower offset is a true backup for the one with the higher offset since it only comes into play if the first one fails.[/quote]

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