Online auctions easy targets of 'snipers' - East Bay Business Times:
eBay. Unfortunately for Farrell, he was unacquainted with a phenomenon that has become commonplace at the world's most popular marketplace for the impossible-to-find. After placing what appeared to be a winning bid, Farrell would lose out to a sniper – a last-minute buyer who jumps in with a

Publication: East Bay Business Times

`Snipers' draw ire of auction site fans.(The Dallas Morning News)
Dallas photographer Jay Brousseau can still feel the indignation _ the horror _ of his first encounter with an online auction sniper. In the last 17 seconds, this guy came out of nowhere and took the auction, says Brousseau. I had the bid with eight minutes to go. Then he just jumped in and grabbed

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

Going, going ... Outbid ?: ; Last-second snipers ruin auction experience
Dallas photographer Jay Brousseau can still feel the indignation - the horror - of his first encounter with an online auction sniper. "In the last 17 seconds, this guy came out of nowhere and took the auction," says Brousseau. "I had the bid with eight minutes to go. Then he just jumped in and

Publication: Sunday Gazette-Mail

Sniper perch up for eBay auction
By Michael E. Young DALLAS -- A window prominently displayed for a dozen years at The Sixth Floor Museum as Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper's perch in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is up for auction on eBay. The starting price: $100,000. It could be, as the eBay ad describes it,

Publication: Winnipeg Free Press

Sale of JFK Sniper Window Falls Through
DALLAS - The auction of a window advertised as Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper perch in the killing of President John F. Kennedy brought a bid of about $3 million, but the sale quickly fell through. The window was up for auction Friday on eBay with a starting price of $100,000, and bidding quickly rose

Publication: AP Online

Disarming EBay Snipers - New York Times
To the Editor: ''In Throes of Passion, a Sniper Is Born'' (Online Shopper, May 10) said that no one thought it was cheating when someone made a bid at a live auction in the seconds before the gavel went down. That is because at a live auction, if someone makes a bid in the seconds before the gavel

Publication: The New York Times