Reply to "AS vs. Ebay's automatic bidding?"

region2Member

John, you've misunderstood how AS works. It places one bid towards the end of the auction for your maximum amount using your ID and password. To ebay and anyone else it looks like you've bid. Once that bid/snipe is placed then ebay handles it in the normal way.

Now, if the current winner has bid 200 and your snipe arrives then you'll lose under ebay's proxy bidding rules.
So, always add a few pence/cents so that you'll win in a tie (it's great to win by just one penny so try 200.01!) and set your lead time to 8 seconds. (Use modify button on My Snipes page for this!).

Never use AS for must-haves - it is just a machine and occasionally fails - that said, I have probably only had one or two failures in 5 or 6 years.

Oh and ignore Rick - he's not the full shilling!

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3/19/0812:37 AM

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