Please check this Ebay Auction. # 280375925388.
I still won the Auction but by my Bid going off at 9 seconds it gave the other guy time to raise it $ 50.00. This was set for 5 seconds. Please explain.

The winning bid (yours!) was the last one in so I don't understand the problem...

 Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time  
 
 p***1( 4 )     US $801.03 Jul-25-09 17:59:51 PDT  
 1***i( 0 )     US $800.00 Jul-25-09 17:59:18 PDT  
 1***i( 0 )     US $750.00 Jul-25-09 17:58:19 PDT  
 e***l( 18)     US $682.00 Jul-25-09 17:59:09 PDT  
 e***l( 18)     US $632.00 Jul-25-09 17:54:21 PDT 

Well done on using an odd amount - seems to me that AS worked perfectly!

R2

Thanks for the reply. I'm not really complaining,I'm just trying to figure this out.
I am glad I bought this item. My question is this.

1***i had the bid of $750 at 58:19
On one of the Screens it showed me making a bid of $760.00 at 59:51
What I don't understand is why he would bid $800 when he was already the high bidder, at $ 750, unless $800 was his maximum bid and I forced him to use it by coming in early.
Another thought, Ebay must have prioity over As.
Lets say he had a max price of $800 but was high bidder at $ 750, with 1 second left my snipe comes in at $ 760. Ebay has to respond even if they ran out of time since their member had a max bid of $ 800

Your only bid/snipe was placed as $801.03 - AS doesn't bid up the item as you are suggesting. Instead it just places one bid at your max and relies on AS's proxy bidding system to sort things out!

1***i had two bids, one at $750 and one at $800. I guess s/he had second thoughts and upped their bid by bidding again.

1***i is a zero feedback bidder so must have been somewhat annoyed when your bid arrived just at the end!!!

R2

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I'm not really complaining

The “ 9 seconds cost me $ 51.00” might cause someone (not me, of course) to disagree.

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On one of the Screens it showed me making a bid of $760.00 at 59:51

Don’t see how that’s possible.

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What I don't understand is why he would bid $800 when he was already the high bidder, at $ 750

You’d have to ask him, but it would seem that he wasn’t comfortable with the spread between the current price and his high bid, so he increased.

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unless $800 was his maximum bid and I forced him to use it by coming in early.

He bid BEFORE you did, so how did he know you were bidding and what you were bidding?

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Another thought, Ebay must have prioity over As.

Perhaps you would elaborate?

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Lets say he had a max price of $800 but was high bidder at $ 750, with 1 second left my snipe comes in at $ 760. Ebay has to respond even if they ran out of time since their member had a max bid of $ 800

At 54:21, e***l was high bidder at $560 (550 + 10).
At 58:19, 1***i was high bidder at $642 (632 + 10) .
At 59:09, 1***i was high bidder at $692 (682 + 10).
At 59:18, 1***i was high bidder at $692 (682 + 10).
At 59:51, p***1 was high bidder at $801.03.

OK yellowfin, now I see it. You’re looking at “Show automatic bids” screen of the bid history.
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayI...925388&showauto=true

Region2 and I are looking at this one:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayI...ds&item=280375925388

The automatic bids display shows two bids for you, but AS only placed one bid/snipe.

Thanks for the reply guys. Yes thats the screen I was talking about. If you notice he bid the $ 800 1 second before the $ 750 making me think it was a max bid and Ebay only need to bid $ 750 to take the lead and beat out the $ 682.00.
Anyway I agree he had to be surprised at the last minute to get beat out by $1.03. I am a believer now. Thanks

As long as we are talking about multiple snipes, why are there 2 snipes showing for this auction?
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayI...ds&item=200364388471
This has also happened to me for some other snipes recently. Of course, I'm happy with the outcome, but why two snipes? And am I being charged for 2 snipes?

Oddly enough, when I look at the confirmation, it shows the bid that was 8 seconds out, not the one with 7 seconds.

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but why two snipes?

Since AS uses multiple servers to place multiple snipes as a backup, from time to time ebay receives the snipes so close together that it doesn’t have time to know that the same bid amount was place multiple times by the same user. Typically the bids will have the same timestamp, but sometimes they’ll be a second apart, as yours were. Seems like someone once reported ebay accepting FOUR identical AS snipes.

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And am I being charged for 2 snipes?

No. You aren't charged by the snipe, but by the win. One win - one charge.

Thanks!