Thanks for the responses.
I would add, however, that my human snipes have never had a problem with delayed response even on a Sunday evening. I generally go in at the 5-10 sec point.
One would assume that Auctionsniper would be better than a human (that's why we're paying for it, yes?). I will only use Auctionsniper now for those auctions where I cannot be present at the end.
And, of course you only bid the maximum that you wish to pay, but the whole point of sniping is to minimize what we pay - let's keep that in mind. We will unfortunately never know if the bids that came in after my early Auctionsnipe were human or other snipe programs. The conclusion that I can make, however, is that there are better human snipers and/or better programs out there at least on this occasion.