I've been using AS for several months. I have my lead time set for five seconds. My snipes were consistantly placed seven seconds before the close of the auctions. I placed a snipe today with a lead time of five seconds but my bid was placed 35 seconds before the close of the auction. What gives? JWells
When I say something .... always ask yourself.... "What the hell does he know?"
AS monitors traffic and response times between eBay and AS. During heavy traffic times AS will adjust your lead time to assure your bid gets placed and processed before auction end. This is very noticeable Sunday evenings, but can happen any time, especially on exact quarter hours.
In AS's opinion, your snipe at 7 seconds would not have made it to eBay before auction ended and would not have been accepted.
Not the perfect solution, but better early than not at all.
FYI this auction ended at Sunday at 17:15.00. Looks like AS could use a little fine tuning. Placing a bid 35 seconds before the end would allow a bidder to see it and bid higher.
When I say something .... always ask yourself.... "What the hell does he know?"
If AuctionSniper has to lengthen the lead time that much, be assured that it's going to be very difficult for someone else to get a manual snipe in response to the A/S placed bid.
Besides, much worse to miss placing a snipe than to place one early.
Sara (from AS Support) posted this in another thread and I thought you guys might be interested.....
quote:Originally Posted by Sniper Sara B.: eBay appears to have fixed some of their slowness issues. The # of not in time snipes has been very low for the past 3 weeks and this Sundays # was the lowest it's been in probably almost 18 months or more. So that's pretty darn good. The sunday before that wasn't quite as good, but still one of the better Sundays in a year.
If this continues we'll adjust our adjustments downwards slowly until either more late snipes occur, or our leads are gone.
Ron, you are 100% correct!
