Forza Motorsport 3

Forza Motorsport 3

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Sniper

Sniper

Win an auction by outbidding someone.

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How to unlock the Sniper achievement in Forza Motorsport 3 - Definitive Guide

Best way to do this is to get a good amount of money and in the auction house make shore when you search you set it to search for
Class e or lower w.e
and car level 0


then look for the ones that are going for 1 min

now what iv spotted is that whenever some one bids the time clicks back up to one minute so your going to have to hope that people give up
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26 Oct 2009 21:52

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May I add thath "buyout" will not work, even if someone already bid. You have to win the auction with "bid" for the achievement.
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By Musquito on 31 Oct 2009 10:43
o thanks for that i forgot that part lol
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By Fastandslow on 01 Nov 2009 21:35
OK, dumb question, where is the auction house?
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By Onza on 03 Dec 2009 17:20
*Make sure.

Good guide.
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By flyingcow93g on 27 Dec 2009 09:05
auction house is in the 'cars' menu
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By Mattynev92 on 06 Mar 2010 21:02
it's the same as in Forza 2, just way too much white on this one D:
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By Roadkill Toast on 15 Apr 2010 20:54
This might be a little easier if the auctions didn't end with 4 minutes left. #fail
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By Dr Moravia on 16 Oct 2011 17:23
As of March 2016, this, as well as five other achievements are no longer obtainable. Turn 10 has shutted the online servers down. If you guys were hoping to complete this game, then that hope is long gone.
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By SpeedBumpVDrop on 28 Apr 2016 00:20
As of a few days ago the servers are back up and all achievements are obtainable.
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By Kenelm on 25 May 2016 15:14
Can you be the only bidder and win, or do you actually have to outbid someone like the description says?

EDIT: Just wasted 1,000 coins to test this. You can't be the only bidder, you MUST outbid someone else and win. I'm just gonna call this a loss for me since nobody really plays this online anymore.
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By Myckel Jay on 19 Dec 2019 03:49
As soon as I get enough coins to feel comfortable, I'd be up to boost this with someone.
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By Graymawr on 25 Feb 2020 02:59
I got mine.
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By Graymawr on 31 Aug 2020 17:20
I got this a long time ago, but I just now got it on my brother's account which he didn't have back when this game was relevant. There seems to have been frequent auctions up for the last couple days, in case anyone still wants this, which I know some do because I got into 2 bidding wars with 2 people at the same time (3 of us total bidding on 2 different auctions ending at the same time). One person gave up, and me and the other went until we ended up paying ~$750k each for cheap little hatchback cars. I searched both gamertags that I was bidding against and both had TA accounts, so I knew we were all trying to get this achievement. If you want to win an auction (or sell a car in an auction for the other achievement) before the auction house shuts down like the storefront already has, be prepared with a lot of credits. You may also get into a bidding war.
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By johnswang255 on 26 Nov 2020 02:46
Can anyone verify if this is obtainable in 2022?
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By iiOmens on 09 Nov 2022 02:37
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Be sure that you don't utilize the buyout option, as this does NOT net you this achievement. Look for the cars that are going within the next minute and bid, just keep refreshing and hope the others don't spot that they've been outbid in time. Also, make sure that you go and finalize your deal, I think the option is called resolve auction or something to that effect.
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26 Sep 2010 21:57

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true, I misse one of the few opportinuties today
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By FaSCoRP on 07 Sep 2019 20:08
Aim for the lowest price but the lowest time so you are not out of pocket but get the achievement quickly. Mine was a Lambo Reventon for 5,000!! I sold it after for the same price so i got the selling a car in the auction house as well
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10 Aug 2010 09:16

While everyone else's solutions will help you get the achievement, I think I have a better way of filtering through the cars to get you a cheap one faster. Rather than limiting your search to a specific rank, the only filter you need to turn on is price. Set price to <30,000 CR, or whatever you feel comfortable paying, and press X to search. You might be surprised to find better cars going for less than crappier ones. The game seems to auto sort the cars found matching your search criteria by ending soonest to a degree. You may need to scroll down for a second to find the ones actually ending soonest, but it won't take long. Remember when bidding, if you don't care about the car, you can always sell it back for the "Auctioneer" achievement (unless the car has a locked setup, the one I won did cry), and because you outbid someone else, you have an idea of what the car may go for.

Because the game is getting older, there are less cars being auctioned. There are still plenty, but you may have to wait a few hours for the next available car's time to end. I find myself having to wait as I type this. The next auctions ending with other people bidding on them (don't forget to look and see if other people have bid before pledging your money) is 25 min. away. I went ahead and bid on 2. One's a C class and one's a B class, both are pretty cheap. Keep in mind, you don't have to swoop in at the last minute. Bid and go do something else. So long as you outbid someone else and won, the achievement will be yours.
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21 May 2013 08:40

This achievement is actually harder than it seems because you can never know whether someone else is going to bid on a car you want. You could get lucky and randomly win one, but the easiest way to get this would be to boost it by finding someone in the Achievement Trading Thread to auction a car that no one else wants and placing a very high starting price on it. Bid once on the car and periodically check back to see if anyone else has bid on it. If someone else has, outbid them so you can win. Once the time runs out and you obtain the car, the achievement will unlock.

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