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

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It ended on Sunday evening, and that's prime time for ebay. It's recommended to use 15 to 20 seconds. So, although early, that's better than late. A 3 second snipe on Sunday evening is asking for trouble.

This was posted by Sniper Sara B. (AS support) on 4/28/03 at 12:07 AM in response to a similiar question:
It means snipes immeditately before yours took eBay at least an extra 5 seconds to process because eBay was running slowly.
It's meant to keep users from losing snipes because they were late. Which would happen if we didnt do this and eBay kept running slowly.

We cant control eBays speed and they slow up and down all the time. It is most dramatic on Sunday when they are most busy. It is better to do this than to miss snipes completely.

And it's very unlikely that the winning snipe was a manual counter snipe.

6/16/032:22 AM

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