Reply to "Fed up with loosing snipes ..."

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An eyebrow-raising comment that no one has questioned or addressed thus far.

I thought about it for a nano-second Jab, then decided against it as very rarely do we sway their opinion that this kind of thing never happens.

But Ok....

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In other words I was winning a bid EVEN IF SOMEONE HAD A HIGHER PROXY BID due to the "cross-firing" of multiple bids and proxies. I accept that it was sometimes a matter of luck whether I was ahead at the exact end of bidding.

Sorry Ian, this is not possible. The person who did have the higest proxy bid or snipe ALWAYS wins.

Ebay just doesnt decide that you were the winning bidder at the exact second that the auction was scheduled to finish, it accepts ALL bids/snipes placed and just keeps processing until the highest bidder wins.

Also, how can you prove that there was a higher proxy bid in the system that you beat with a smaller bid?

Sorry, ebay just doesnt work like that.

11/21/0512:12 PM

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