For the uninitiated, eBay sniping services are third-party organisations that people can use to bid on an eBay auction at the last second, obviously this requires the user to provide their eBay account details so the service can login to their account to make the bid.
My question is, would the passwords on these services be stored in plain text? After all, a hashed password stored on the sniper's servers wouldn't be very useful for logging in to a user's eBay account, would it? If not, how would these services store users' eBay credentials securely?