Their answer, by the way, is that 4-18% of people are less likely to return to the platform as a result of irritation over sniping.<p>eBay&#x27;s mechanism for automatically increasing your bid to your reserve as necessary should alleviate this. For me, it does ... I put in my max bid and just let it go (years ago, I sniped manually, when I had ntp and a fast connection and not everybody else did; that was good). But I find that for people bidding on my auctions, some don&#x27;t understand the max bid idea (so are very good sniping targets) and others appear to understand it but still think they&#x27;re going to get sniped anyway. I don&#x27;t know how this could be but I&#x27;ve had a couple confusing conversations over it with people who offer me lots of money to end auctions early (and who don&#x27;t otherwise seem like scammers).<p>So even though eBay has a way to beat this, regular people don&#x27;t find it usable enough, basically. The TradeMe mechanism another commenter mentioned sounds smart.