People keep complaining about the oh so evil (yet 
smarter) snipers. All they do is take the liberty 
to decide when to bid though...

There are evil ways, though! Like, be babbling on 
MSN/ICQ to somebody to keep them from bidding 
during the countdown. Or enter an unbeatable max 
bid to keep the opponent losing, and retract last 
second. Or crashing their PC. Or even tell them 
horrible things about the seller. All these have 
been tried on me - now, tell me what's been tried 
on you! Successful, unsuccessful? Did they reach 
their goal? 

And... did you develop a way of defense?

^^
Ore-kun