Hi All
I have been using auctionsniper for a couple of months now with great success, but the other day I had the first anomaly with this item :
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4017697026
My bid (riffraff1210) was £13.75 with a 1 sec lead time (yes I know not recommended but I've had no problems so far). The first indication that something had gone wrong was when I received an email from Ebay saying that I had been outbid by another bidder ! I was puzzled by this because I had placed no manual bids - only a snipe at 1 second, which was highly unlikely to be outbid. When I logged onto AuctionSniper I saw the message 'Bid Placed Successfully', and further examination revealed that AS had placed the bid at 08:59:34BST, around 1.75 hours before the auction closed ! Luckily I happened to be around my PC at the time and was able to bag the item with a manual bid, but I would have lost it for sure otherwise.
So I was wondering what happened, and if I would be entitled to some free snipes ?
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