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Just a heads up
7 years ago
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Trying to snipe an auction is a one way ticket onto my shitlist. I don't honestly care about winning the auction, and I don't even care whether or not it was me being sniped. I care about treating other people, and especially the artists trying to make a living here, with respect. Sniping an auction sends a clear message of "I don't care about anyone else, or about anything but my own personal gain". It short changes the artist by trying to exclude other bidders from the bidding process, and is an overt slap in the face to everyone else involved. Whether or not the artist explicitly puts in rules to disallow it, you should always consider that kind of tactic to be off the table.
Even more than without that sniper.
Also there's a reason people put up a "additional hour if bid in last hour" or something.
And even then some put 10 minutes up as the sniping-buffer. Which is way too less imo. Should be 12 hours or even more to prevent actual sniping.
Picture an Australian and a European. Those are 12 hours apart.
An hour won't do it then.