I'm telling you this again........

While talking with my sister-in-law the other night, she mentioned that she thought that this SNIPING situation sounds kind of low and remembered the time we were bidding on a Vera Wang wedding dress! My daughter was getting married and I saw this fabulous wedding dress - Vera Wang - after all, it had only been worn once! It was quite gorgous and was the right size.

We watched and watched the auction...............the problem was - it ended at 2:15 AM! What were we going to do? How could we get our bid in at the last minute? We weren't even going to be home and at that time didn't have a lap top (at that time an "airport" was a place to catch a flight!) - this was years ago. So we arranged with my niece that we would call her at 2 AM and she would get our high bid in at the very end!

We woke her up at 2 AM as planned and we all sat around the telephone while my niece got ready to place the bid. It was a reserve auction and even though we were the HIGH BID we didn't win the gown! No one bid high enough to win as it was an auction with a reserve. I did contact the seller, but by that time she had already sold it to someone else.

All's well that end's well - my daughter never married that fellow, never needed the gown and was married a few weeks ago to a really wonderful guy (and is soooo happy) in a gorgeous dress that we bought at the bridal shop in town.

BUT - if we knew about Auction Sniper we would have just bid in our high bid and wouldn't have had to get up in the middle of the night! Wouldn't have had to wake my niece and things would have worked out just as well. Again - we wouldn't have won the dress anyway as we would not have bid as high as her reserve had been.

So I agree that it seems kind of low - BUT ON THE OTHER HAND - it can come in rather handy. You put in your bid (the highest you're actually willing to pay) and then you can forget about it. If you win the item - great! If not, there is always something else!

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