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MarkI wonder if the advent of sniper services has made most types of items cheaper or more expensive. It seems like some think snipers have made items cheaper, or at least would if everyone used them. But if people tend to enter their max bids when using their snipers, but don't enter their max bids when enterring in straight ebay bids (for fear of drving up the item price), I wonder if ebay items wouldn't be cheapest if nobody used snipers. In other words, without snipers, perhaps most people interested in an item would not enter in their max bid (for fear of driving up the price) unless manually bidding in the final seconds. And perhaps few people would be able to sit in front of ebay during the final seconds for all the items they are interested in winning as compared to the number of people who today manage to bid in the final seconds via sniper serivces. Less max bids could mean a lower price in a owrld without snipers, as it was in the old days.