It's when the item is hard to find or normally sells for a much higher price than the auction closes at when I usually get the nasty messages, especially when it's a long auction and the high bidder got his bid in early and the price didn't change until I put my bid in at the end. Some people get their hearts set on winning an item cheap, so when a snipe comes in it really makes them furious. The last nasty message I got was for a Mac OS 7.6 CD that I outbid the high bidder by 1 cent to win. [
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