Do you think soft close auctions earn more money for the seller?

Do guys think soft close auctions earn more money for the seller?

On auction websites which uses a soft close, can you still set your max bid? 

The only auction site I have used that does a soft close does have proxy bidding. I could set my high bid as $500 and the next highest max from another bidder is $200, my bid would only be 210 or something like that. I hate soft closes though can't snipe. The great thing I have found about sniping is not a lot of people do it right. I just won my first online auction with a hard close, I put my one and only high bid of $383 in in the last 30 seconds and got the unit for $180. Now if it was a soft close it would have given the other bidders a chance to bid me up higher, I still would have won but maybe paid alot more for it.

So, basically what everyone is saying is that soft closes benefit the seller while hard closes benefit the buyer.

I was considering moving OSA to a soft close, but after thinking about it, it may not be a good idea. Buyer's don't prefer them and storage facilities might have to wait several additional hours to know the outcome of their auction.   

id move to soft close, you want max $ on auctions or youll get no facilities willing to use you. auctionzing is having that problem. I bid on them would have won them all but they pulled them because they didnt go high enough