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Originally posted by Puppy Raiser:
Your bid would be placed that early if your auction ended Friday morning at about 1:20 AM eBay time.
AS goes down for maintenance each Friday morning between 1 and 3 AM. Snipes that fall into this time slot are placed just before the servers are taken down. AS picks this time because eBay also does maintenance and the site/features may be intermittently down.
Spot on - The auction ended [Friday] 01-Oct-04
09:20:57 BST and the early snipe was made at
09:00:57 BST. An outside US problem I guess - will have to watch that one...
Thanks for the explanation of the bid history
(apologies for not making it clear that it
was two different ones).
If I understand correctly then EBay will accept a snipe bid that is lower than the prevailing bid - which is what happened in this example
Bidder C was able to snipe bid £39.44 after
Bidder A had bid £45.05. Am I correct in thinking that this can't happen with manual
bidding as EBay won't accept a lower or equal
bid ?
Many thanks for the replies
Denis
P.S. I wasn't Bidder A, B or C - just wondered what was going on
