Retro game prices on Ebay

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Every auction is a new market of bidders. In your example, the currently leading bidder is winning the auction at $20, but his max bid is $29.50. If no one else bids, he wins at the price from yesterday. Instead someone else put a max bid of $30+ in the last seconds and won. Auctions depend on who is in the market for whatever item at that given time. Trying to use completed auction history as a concrete market value is flawed.

Sometimes that $20 bid is mine! I understand the market, but it's not always the case. I see the point, though.

Well yes, but the ending price is not a direct result of sniping, it's a result of someone willing to spend that much for the game, regardless of how they put that bid in.

Other people in this thread (not you) are blaming sniping for all of their eBay problems. As I said above, if anything, sniping is anti-seller as there are fewer bidding wars. It is not anti-other-bidder because they had ample opportunity to decide what their max bid was.

Also, unrelated: I emailed you back the other day re: pcefx.com, did you get it?

I didn't mean to implicate sniping, I was just saying that sniping doesn't really solve the problem.

Also, no, I didn't. I am not sure I'm getting all my PMs on that forum. And I got one a day after the guy sent it. It's been weird.