Allright, but in his example AS already knew that he was outbid, By "knew" I mean that it has the necessary information, all that's left is putting 2 and 2 together and sending a warning or displaying a warning when I load the my snipes page, but it does neither. That's fine if it doesn't email me right away for the reasons you described, but when I load the my snipes page, and AS lists the current high bid right next to my max bid, and the current high is clearly higher, AS should not have the green ready label there. It would only take a few lines of code and little overhead to compare (not download pages from Ebay) but just compare the two numbers that are displayed in front of you. and change the snipe status accordingly. This would make more sense when I look at my 10 snipes and I see that 5 of them have been outbid, but still 9 of them are listed as green "ready".
Hope that makes sense.