TECH: Always win that auction on ebay

It's a common scenario. There is something on ebay you really want. There is no 'buyitnow' so there are two possibilities. 1. You stay in for the items final hour as the clock ticks down, poised to make that well timed bid and then shuffle uncomfortably in your chair clicking 'refresh' every remaining second to see if you have won... Guess what? You invariably don't, causing a good 30 minutes kicking the cat (doesn't have to be your own cat, loads around my way). Option 2. You have a life, forget about the auction, come home to find you missed and go cat hunting. Neither is ideal.

Here is option 3. But I warn you, desperate situations require desperate solutions. Presenting: Auction Sniper. Fast effective and cruel for everyone apart from you. You log in to the site, enter the auction number and your ebay log in. It automatically places a bid for you (upto your pre-defined maximum) 7 seconds before the auction closes. So, no pushing the heart rate monitor to its limits each time an auction is closing, no endless spending on useless tat (you get the useless tat, just pay less for it) no more wasting time waiting for auctions to close. Anyway, go take a look and it gives you 5 free snipes to start with...