What is “friendly” sniping?
Some sniping tools have a feature that is designed to imitate “normal” bidding practices and so trick the seller and other bidders into thinking you are not sniping. This also announces your interest in the auction, which would remain unknown with a normal snipe. These tools place a few incremental (slightly higher each time) bids on the auction before a final snipe bid to win in the last minute. The idea is that others will interpret this as a human placing a few tentative bids before finally bidding high enough to win the auction, and because they think you are not a sniper they won’t get upset with you for what they see as “cheating.” If you want to snipe but are worried that other eBayers won’t like you for it then this could be for you. Be aware of two things if you take this approach: (1) part of the appeal of sniping is not driving the price up, which you could do with this method, and (2) if the pre-snipe bids are not convincing the other eBayers may think you are more devious
