eBay Needs To Extend Auction Endings

I've ranted a few times in the past about auction sniping, the practice of bidders using software to hop in at the last second and snag an item at a price below what other bidders may be willing to pay in open bidding. Now here's another reason for Daily Techno-Babble blog concerned the misadventures he faced during his recent efforts at being a seller: Just this past week I attempted to use eBay to auction off two notebook computers and quickly discovered that this was an impossible task thanks to all the scammers who now appear to have almost complete control of the site. Yes, you heard that right. Complete control. The way these scammers work is they send you an email asking to purchase your item outside of eBay, then when you won't bite they hose your auction using a hacked account effectively preventing you from making a legitimate sale and at the same time sticking you with huge sellers fees from eBay. Robert included emails received from supposed buyers, requesting shipments outside the country despite his notice in the auctions that he would not ship outside the United States. After refusing these come-ons, a fake bidder hit one auction with a winning bid of $4,494, when the next highest legitimate bid was $640. The other auction is still in progress. Sellers on eBay can ban problematic buyers, to keep them from wrecking future auctions. But when they snipe an auction at the last second, they can't be banned when the auction ends. This leaves the seller with eBay's