Reply to "Auction Sniper misleading users about service"

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A 3 second lead time on an item that ends on the hour on a Sunday Evening - not recommended as eBay slows down due to so many items closing on the same time - see numerous previous posts on this subject!

I looked at the bid history and disagree with your conclusion. Please tell me if I'm wrong...

adamantyr bid 175 with 10 seconds to go whereas umrgregg (pallbearer?) bid 175 with 48 seconds to go. So, if umrgregg's bid had arrived after adamantyr's then adamantyr would have won under eBay's Proxy Bidding rules.

It was a Sunday evening so I guess things were running a bit slow causing AS to increas the lead time to compensate. It would have been slow for everyone...

It could be argued that adamantyr was able to react to umrgregg's bid but s/he would only have seen the item being bid up to 117 so his/her bid of 175 was just a coincidence.

Or is there a sniping service that works better than AS when eBay is running slowly...

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7/5/0411:45 PM

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