Reply to "AS enters bid at 11 secs when set to snipe @ 3 secs"

kildesMember

Looking back through the archive on this forum I can see that Sara has said that auctions ending exactly at 7pm, 7:15, 7:30 on the nose must be placed early by AS due to the high volume of auctions ending on the hour and at exact quarter/half hours. This is not the case with the auction in question, which ended at 5:05:47 PM.

Sara, you've said that AS bases its snipe times on data collected regarding ebay traffic.

Question - exactly how does AS select which auction snipe times must be extended and by how much? If I am bidding on an auction ending at 7:00pm exactly, will AS extend the snipe time more than an auction ending at 7:08:23pm? Please describe the mechanism by which AS extends the snipe times entered by users.

Thanks
Jeff

6/15/0310:14 PM

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