I had about 5 snipes ready and 4 of them were made OK , won 1 and lost the others and the 5th one I should have won but it wasnt even placed. Winning bid was $9.99 and I had $16 snipe on it. The snipe is still in my current snipes window and says ready even though it was over 3 hours ago. Was the site offline or something when the auction died>

I have one that did the exact same thing. It is still sitting there saying ready but the auction has ended. Snipe was never made.

Hello Community,

We had a brief interruption in services with the site between approximately 9:34 am (PST) and 10:15 am (PST). We are still investigating this issue, but it appears that some snipes scheduled between this time may not have been placed.

If your snipe was not placed please contact Customer Support to have your snipe credited.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you and assure you that this issue is being investigated and will be resolved.

Thank you for your patience and your continued loyalty to Auction Sniper.

Respectfully,

Steve
Auction Sniper Product Manager

I just had another not get placed at 1:34. this is starting to get annoying. i have another in 40 minutes, if that one doesn't get placed Im going to have a cow

Im sorry it wasnt placed at 1:07 CST

I lost one at 9:38. My snipe was $30-something, and the lot closed under $10. Drat!

Me too. Lost my snipe. Still saying ready. Very sad. My Bid was 34.51, went for $10.00 less than that.

You do realize, don't you, that the winning bid may have been for $50, $100, etc? There is no way to know what the winning bidder's max was. I know that it stinks that the snipe was not placed, and it seems that AS is investigating, but these posts that mention what the item went for sound like they believe that there was no way their snipes would have lost, had they been placed. You only see the second place bid plus one increment. The winning bid could have been, and probably was, significantly higher.

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The winning bid could have been, and probably was, significantly higher.

How is that relevant, Chatter?

OK I am done and moving to another service. This makes 5 snipes that I set to snipe at 3 seconds before and out of all of them over the last week they were sent out 15 to 10 seconds before the auction ends and thus I lost due to being out snipped.

I have had the snipes's not placed this week and lost when it said "ready" and it placed a snipe but my amount was for MORE than the auction ended for. At first eBay showed I won it then once I refreshed the page I was no longer the winner.

I cannot tell where the problem is but I do know the early snipes have cost me the items and I PAY for my snipes.

You want to tell me why the time line on my last I lost on went like this:
I sent to snipe 3 second

Auction end: Nov-04-09 15:09:07 PST
Winner: k***k( 295) US $26.99 Nov-04-09 15:09:03 PST

ME: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx(312) S $25.99 Nov-04-09 15:09:01 PST

What is the point of letting me choose the time I want the snipe placed when other people using other products are getting snipes in on time. This is absurd. with 15 to 5 second lead times I might as well proxy bid.

Some people just don't get it...

It's not the LAST bid that wins, it's the HIGHEST.

And Frenchie thinks someone else reacted in 2 seconds? I think not! Also, why bid X.99? That's a seller's trick to make buyers think items are cheaper than they really are... I guess they forgot to read the forums and the FAQs and have no concept on how AS works. Oh well - aurevoir!

R2

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Originally posted by region2:
It's not the LAST bid that wins, it's the HIGHEST.

How is that relevant, region2?

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Originally posted by region2:
And Frenchie thinks someone else reacted in 2 seconds?

What’s your current belief on how long it takes for someone to respond to a snipe? You posted that the quickest you could manage was 50 seconds.

Hmmm - I hear something whitering away but it appears to be nonsense...

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Originally posted by region2:
Hmmm - I hear something whitering away but it appears to be nonsense...

Does that mean your little ditty about LAST bids versus HIGHEST has no relevancy?

Also, you skipped the question about how long it takes for you to react to someone else’s bid. Are you still using semaphores to signal your bids to the mainland?

But, since you’ve gone off the topic, if you actually believe that LAST/HIGHEST statement, then why snipe? All you need do is bid the “HIGHEST”.

Now, be original – or give it your best shot.

bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz

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Originally posted by region2:
bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz

I can always tell when region2 knows he’s lost the argument.

Here’s another one of your contradicting opinions, region2. If you feel it takes someone 50 seconds to respond to a bid, then why do you use a 8-second lead time? Wouldn’t 20 or 49 seconds be just as good?

Anyone has doubts as to how region2 will avoid that question?