Also, why not just bid your maximum and walk away
The reason I (and others) rate sniping software, or bidding at the last second, is to stop those who can’t just walk away!
For example: Say I bid £63 with seconds to go,and I’m the highest bidder at that time, there isn’t the time for someone to lose control and ‘up’ their bid by a few pounds (i.e. they get into a bidding frenzy!). You’re right – if someone 2 weeks ago put a highest bid of £80, then they will always win the auction and there’s no way around that apart from ‘bid higher’!
Also, some people really don’t know how to use eBay, and if they treat it like a ‘normal’ auction and not a ‘proxy’ auction (i.e they ‘up’ their bid bit by bit, and don’t realise whacking in a max bid will do this for them) then sniping etc ‘beats’ these people…
DrP