First time poster, long time AS user.

Been having an odd problem with AS for the past week or two. I lost a snipe & the AS email I received said my eBay user ID & password were invalide - I freaked assuming my eBay account had been hacked & quickly confirmed my login details there. Then came back & confirmed the stored eBay account info was accurate.

A fluke? It has happened before - simple oddities I chalk up to the rumblings of the internet.

The annoying thing was all of my waiting snipes now had a large yellow banner warning me of the potentially invalid account details.

I then lost another snipe with the same error message & really began to get concerned, but shortly after, I won. No rhyme nor reason to it.

When I enter a new snipe, I do not have the warning banner on the new snipe. But as soona s I lose a snipe with that error message, they all get it. Annoying - I can delete & reenter the snipe - or modify it - and it goes away.

I've been watching these errors closely & it appears I'm getting them when my bid is too low or below increment - it is quite odd.

Came here to review old problems & see this is minor compared to some of the oddities, but thought I'd throw it out there for discussion. I have sent a notice to support asking their advice.

Thanks for posting and submitting your problem to ASS (still have to wonder what they were thinking!). There's been some intimation that it's either an impossible problem to solve, or the sort of problem that thousands of otherwise happy AS users haven't complained about yet.

Here's a new one!

With 2 hrs. left to go on this auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4437919639 AS is giving me the "outbid alert". Zero bids, starting price $22, my ready bid $23.86.

I changed it to $23.87 and got rid of the error message.

The interesting part is that I got an outbid notification e-mailed to me as well for: "eBay Item: FANFARE TRUMPET...Brass VOCOTONE by W.J. DYER 4437919639"!

According to ebay, the FANFARE TRUMPET...Brass VOCOTONE by W.J. DYER is item #7387679007.

If I win a gigantic musical instrument, I'm going to be peeved.

Link to incorrect auction:
FANFARE TRUMPET...Brass VOCOTONE by W.J. DYER

Must be another coincidence that these auctions ended 15 seconds apart (in another thread they ended 1 second apart) and the incorrect auction also had a sniper. I wonder if tomlandr uses AS.

Does make one wonder!