What is auction Sniping?
Auction sniping is buying items of the auctions that are selling below there normal rate.
All kinds of items from codestones to pbs to hidden tower items pass through the auctions everyday and 9/10 a sniper gets them but how?
The basics of auction sniping is to out bid your rivals to the item.
Now at anytime you will have alot of people all bidding on the same item at once, so, you have to give your self the edge over your competitors.
These simple points will help you "snipe" alot more items than you were previously able to.
1.Where to snipe
2.What to snipe
3.Your rivals
4.Your bid
Where To Snipe
To start of sniping dont start bidding on items that are selling under price with hours remaining thats a waste of time and just plain daft, only bid on items that are under the "1-20" column, if these items are going to fast for you at the begining start of at the "21-40" column this will give you a bit more time but will give the pro snipers a better chance to change the bidding pattern...which i will discuss later.
Just continuly refreash that page every 5 seconds to see a new list of items.
What To Snipe
Items under priced go through the auctions every few minutes, it would be wise to take advantage of this, if your new to sniping aim for codestones, food, faeire or similar items.
Eventually you will feel the need to make some real dough, this is when you will be on the look out for the lab maps, PBs , Nerkmids, Mps and loads more.
It would benifit you greatly if you made your self aware of what items are currantly selling for, the more items you are aware of the more items you can go for.
Your Rivals
This little number can make you alot of neopoints simply by following the rival snipers, when you see one of these following people bid on an items stalk them, out bid them because 99% of the time they are making profit...these are pro snipers
>Follow_Your_Destiny
>Swippe
>Davioth
>Old_Snipe_Machine
>Ihalo_Is_Back
>Qt_Gt
>Tears_In_Heaven_Ftw
>dragon_paint_brush
And now the important part..Your Bid:
Not IF but when you come across that bargin item dont bid the next increasement...why because [1] you stand to be outbid a split second later or [2] you`ve already been out bid before your bids prosessed.. when you bid, increase the bid by somthing like 1234 or 4567 (depending on the items value) doing this will almost certainly ensure you get a bid in and it will also stop anyone else from bidding the increasement.
As soon as you have had a bid thats been successful Quickly press "back" and put another bid in, this time raise previous bid by another 1234 or 2345, keep doing this (back enter) until you get another bid in.
For Instance:
If the item is selling for 40k with a 1k increasement and i raise it by 2222 the bid will stand at 42222 enter that bid then press back and enter 44444 repet this prossess until the auciton is over.
Auctions in the "1-20" column only last around 15 seconds so doing this process twice with almost guarantee the item.....
I also have several other tabs open whilst sniping, one on the toy shop, the magic shop and the stamp shop, so if nothing comes through the auctions on a couple of refresh`s you can refresh the shops...
This is my first `attempt` of a guide so please be gentle
Edited by interhacker, 19 May 2008 - 04:55 PM.
