Yeah, that's the reason why I try not to complain about the snipe guard too much. I honestly hate it, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing that can be done. Unless there'd be like a limit to how many times it can activate or something? But then that would probably cause its own issues and make it more complicated.

In the end, it seems (imo) that all the snipe guard does is give those with an open schedule at the auction end an edge to win, since they can outlast the other(s) in an auction duel. Auctions that end in large PC differences feel fair usually, but when I see an auction end with only a 1 PC increase, usually at the tail-end of the auction, I feel bad for the person who barely lost. And it sucks, because a good bit of the time we'd like to keep fighting for the egg/etc. but it all depends on what we're doing at the time. And that limitation's really discouraging.

I'm glad someone agrees with me on how annoying it can be. But I have to agree that there just doesn't seem to be any fix. :(

And I like the trading-post idea, it would be a good in-between for auction/personal trading! Especially since we can only trade with PC for the most part, there's no option to trade with another egg/items/etc. so it could help trading in a whole to broaden. And I especially like that idea since, when I can help it, I avoid auctions like the plague on Pixpet. :'D