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Originally Posted by Redmagster
Since these snipers bid from your account there is no way (without extreme effort) it can be proved that you didn't just place a vey late bid...
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While I agree you couldn't prove it 100% you could see where the bid data came from so for instance if ebay collected data on our bid behavior which I'm sure they do they could see where on the Internet out bids are coming from and the sniping behavior
When you aggregate the data across individuals, if quite a few snipers all use the same IP address (or range) to bid you could red flag that as a sniping service and block it
That being said I doubt ebay Germany does that as they like money
So their policy is certainly in place to discourage the practice rather than actually stop it