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False Bid to Low

puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
Just noticed a snipe I entered several days ago that now says

WARNING - Your max bid is below the minimum allowed for this item!

My max is hundreds of dollars over current price!

Have tried to update price (that's when the problem first appeared)
Also tried to delete and re-enter snipe.

Sara, you can find me via my e-mail address.
Item is currently in a folder called test, and ends with 6495. Help!

....and Thanks.



[This message was edited by Puppy Raiser on January 23, 2004 at 01:37 PM.]
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J joeyjoersonMember
Additional info on this:
If I modify the offending auction, then select "Change Snipe!" (without changing anything!) it's fine again, ready to go in green. If I leave the site and come back to "my snipes", everything is fine. Only when I select 'update prices' about half of a group of 8 (always the same ones) go red with false "bid too low" warnings. I don't like it.
L larrythelegendMember
I should have come here first. Here is an eMail I just got from AS:

That item ended exactly at 6:30pm. Items ending on half hours between
5:30 and 8:30 need 30 second lead times because it often takes eBay
that long to process the bid. Not ever time, but often.

Not placing a bid at 30 seconds is like playing russian roulette. Sure
9 out of 10 times your bid will make it with 5 seconds just fine. But
1 in 10 it won. Whereas your odds of being outbid even with a 30
second snipe are more like 1 in 50. Neither is the best solution, but
we take the one that gives you the best odds of winning. Until eBay
improves their performance at those times we dont have any other
option. More people would lose because of eBay slowness if we
didnt bid early, then lose by being outbid. It's the lesser of two evils
for us unfortunately.
rickrickMember
quote:
Originally posted by larry_the_legend:
I should have come here first. Here is an eMail I just got from AS:

That item ended exactly at 6:30pm. Items ending on half hours between 5:30 and 8:30 need 30 second lead times because it often takes eBay that long to process the bid. Not ever time, but often..


That email is something new to me. That quarter hour thing comes up a lot, usually from people that didn't give AS enough lead time, so they don't even get a bid in. So, we end up discussing this a lot (if you do a "Search" on this forum using "quarter" you'll get a lot of hits). I'm wondering if this is something new from AS?
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