First of all, I have used Auction Sniper in the past with good results. But, I haven't used it lately as I haven't been very active on eBay.

A few days ago, I placed a snipe on Auction Sniper with a 3 second lead time before auction end. (eBay Item number: 390040606366)

Today, as it happened, I was watching the final moments of that auction and was very surprised to see Auction Sniper entering my bid with 59 seconds still remaining in the auction.

Luckily, I did win the auction; and looking at the other bidder's entries, I probably would have paid the same final auction price, anyway.

Any ideas on what happened? Is this normal behavior for Auction Sniper as of late, or just a one-time "fluke"?

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Is this normal behavior for Auction Sniper

Not normal, but has been reported before on this forum. Best to use the following if AS support doesn't post something to you on this forum:
http://support.auctionsniper.com/

A very belated thanks for the reply, Rick.

I might have a solution to the mystery as it almost happened again! Fortunately, the problem was most likely due to my own haste and foolishness:

Firstly, the "snipe time" setting for an auction has a default value of 5 seconds. Usually, I change this to 3 seconds. What probably happened is that I mistakenly got a "53" second snipe when I typed a "3" without realizing that I didn't properly delete the default "5" value that was already in the snipe time typebox. (Note: I usually select the "5" with the mouse and then "overtype" it with a "3". But if the "5" was not correctly selected, you get a 53 instead of 3.)

I have done a number of successful snipes on Auction Sniper and I usually double check my entries for errors. But recently, when I almost made the same mistake again, I realized my earlier error.

Regards,
Matt

So leave it at 5 and the problem goes away! I use 8...

R2

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Originally posted by region2:
So leave it at 5

Better yet, you can change your default value to 3 - see Modify Account on My Snipes.