Aanvil are you referring to the auction sniping well known and loved for over 15 years by ebays hundreds of millions of users, or the dictionary version of “to direct an attack (at someone) in a sly or underhanded way”
Wasnt clear which you had are yer mind there since of course everyone here knows about auction sniping
Auction sniping is the sort of thing only the experienced and avid eBay shopper would keep in mind. I don’t shop eBay - can’t be arsed - but I suppose that if I did, I’m quite sure that in my inexperience I’d be sniped out of the water.
Which raises a point for me: sniping’s no reliable good if everyone’s a marksman. Isn’t the strategy to gull the unguarded, and then blam?
We both really want a whistle that’s worth (say) £10, but are afraid of someone else sniping at (say) £15 when we’d quite happily pay £20 just to make sure. But why stop at £20 when someone might just bid £20.25? So you bid £210 and I bid £220 with neither of us really expecting the inevitable, then BAM!
I should aim to some LasVegas or CoolPlace Casino, or start a business in “Old flute prizes”…
btw Jon, No, no, I already have my own flutes and I still need to learn how to play them!