Kilts on ebay

[CMcG]

I am wondering about others experience winning bids on ebay. Twice, I have been winning a kilt on ebay and lose it at the last minute. Yesterday I was bidding on a kilt advertised as surplus Seaforth Highlanders or HLI. I was the only bidder and at 2 seconds to the end, someone popped in with a bid two pounds higher than me. I felt like I had just been robbed.
Has anyone else seen this? And is this what is called sniping ?

That is indeed what is called sniping. I use it when I know I'll be home in the last minutes of an auction because it helps to avoid bidding wars...

Here are two defensive tactics against the snipper bidding style:

1) Put your bid at the maximum you are willing to pay for an item. From the starting bid, eBay then automatically raises your bid for you. You'll only pay the minimum required to win the auction.

2) Use an odd number for your maximum bid. People tend to bid whole numbers, so put something like $128.39 instead of $125. Sometimes those extra few pennies make all the difference.