My snipe software is just called snipe
Moto748 is absolutely right - you still have to determine beforehand the price that you are willing to pay - because once you get to 5 seconds out where the snipe software kicks in (or 7 seconds if you set it to 7 seconds - whatever) there's no going back.
The reason I advocate sniping is that it connects to e-bay, syncs to e-bay time (crucial for that last second snipe) and automatically increments your bids to whatever price will win the auction within the max price that you've already set. It takes all the hassle out and there are auctions you simply will not win without it. Ultimately if someone else is using snipe software and has a higher max bid than you they will win but you will beat someone who is doing it manually who would pay more than you, and your max may have been lower - they would never know because you can't bid that quickly without snipe software.
I hope that makes sense. I am no e-bay legend, I've only ever bought that one item but I work in IT doing design work so I understand the technical principles of snipe software and value the automation. The rest is really up to you - how much you are willing to put the max bid to, how late you want to set the wnipe software to bid (should depend on your connection to the internet - broadband V dial-up etc, bearing in mind you need to be connected at the time the auction ends).
Apparently there is a snipe website you can use so you don't need to be online at the time and it manages the bid for you - never checked it out and never used it so I can't comment.
Hope this makes sense.
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