Mario Vodopivec of free sniping site Gixen has generously sent us some great new sniping statistics.

The stats were taken from Gixen's own data, then sniping levels for other sites was estimated using Alexa's comparitive rankings and traffic information. Total snipes per week from web-based services are estimated at 181,000 and the total number of sniped auctions is approximately 6%.

Many thanks to Gixen for this contribution.