Any thoughts from experienced snipers?

I have been having relative good results with default time of 11 seconds.

Wonder if others have improved their results with other lead times.

Seems that the prevailing wisdom, at least on the forum, is that somewhere around 8 seconds is best. 11 seconds is probably just as good as 8 for a couple of reasons:

It’s somewhat difficult for another sniper, unless they are very motivated and obsessive, to react to another snipe in 8 seconds or even 11. Typically, another sniper is using either a service or some software, so they won’t be “reacting” to your snipe, which means the outcome of the auction won’t change even if your lead-time is 30 seconds.

Since AS pads the lead-time if it thinks the traffic is high on ebay, an 8 second snipe, or a 3 second snipe, can turn into a 11 second snipe.



Here’s AS’ recommendation:
http://www.auctionsniper.com/faqbasics.aspx#faq_13a_lbl

What does "pads the lead time" mean?

Read Sniper Mike D's post:
http://community.auctionsniper.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5...471037392#9471037392