Ok I don't get auction sniping?

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  1. fabmxer

    fabmxer Level I

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    Please explain auction sniping to me. It would make a lot more sense to me if it displayed how many minutes and seconds left for the auction , but all it shows is >30 mins - >4 hours.

    How do you know when it will end so you can get the last bid?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Milanos

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    You can't really know that.

    There is an auction sniper here in the downloads though.
     
  3. fabmxer

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    Does the auction sniper program know exactly when it ends , the last second?
     
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    No, it just detects if someone's bid over you and automatically bids over them, up to your maximum bid. So it doesn't need to know the ending time, it just makes sure that you're always the top bidder.
     
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    Generally you don't know exactly when it ends.. but neither does anyone else. You can go to the list of the auctions that are about to finish and just get lucky, It'd make sense though that given that the amount of auctions made on average is always about the same once you get the hang of it you should have a pretty good idea. (eg. just go to the 40th item of the auctions about to close and time how long it takes to become closed and after doing this a couple time you would probably get some idea of when to bid to get the last bid in and make a tidy profit. I've never been a auction sniper tho so I could be wrong.
     
  7. bliztkoon

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    He's asking what's auction sniping. Its when people snipe for items in the auctions and refreshing to see if they are the top bidder. Its rather tedious cuz u may not know when it ends as stated. Last time the auction states the item is like under 1 minute or something. The items you snipe should best be at < 30minutes.
     
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    all you have to do is stay under the 40 or 20 and bid on a junk and try to time when the items is about to close when you get the hang of it do it on your real item
     
  9. lilmexiboy

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    like 3 years ago it used to tell you the exact time. Now in order to successfully snipe stuff you need to refresh at the 21-40 auction mark like if you where restocking. When you find something you want, you follow it till its in the last 1-10 actions and try to bid right before it closes.
     
  10. fabmxer

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    Oh ok I understand now , thanks.
     
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    there is no way to tell. but the auction sniper gets the item 99.9% of the time (in my experience)
     
  12. fabmxer

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    How detectable is it to NPT?

    How much percentage of getting frozen?
     
  13. Milanos

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    Lol, percentages are not really known. But if you don't use it on like 100 items at a time, I think the freeze rate isn't that high.
     
  14. rapidfire

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    Auction sniping's pretty hard, but yeah looking at the list of those auctions ending is probably the legit way to do it..
     
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    I don't think auction sniping has high freeze rate cuz its not weird for someone trying to get an item to do continuous refreshing.
     
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    *remembers the days when it told the exact time*
    =) It was awesome back then...
     
  17. soccermadness90

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    In that case using an Aber does not have a high freeze rate. Cos it is not weird for someone rsing to refresh continuously.
     
  18. drdd10

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    I was a legend back then but everytime I made a 15mil+ profit snipe I got iced so I quit that.
     
  19. pinkydog

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    I made a guide, its in the "Guide" Section, you can read it and see if it helps you out :).
     
  20. TakezoKensei

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    auctioning sniping doesnt have a high freeze rate
     
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