Reply to "How is this possible? Human or computer?"

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I am still trying to figure this one out... Rick, you make a good point about multiple snipes from multiple servers, but of course those are for redundancy (in case a server fails) and are supposed to be at identical time stamps and identical amounts. Do you suppose this is what happened here, plus eBay had a glitch where the identical snipes were acknowledged at different times by eBay? If that's the case, and, say, we assume that any bid placed within 7 seconds of closing time was an automated snipe (not by a human), this would mean that my AS snipe was acknowledged by eBay as a single bid (i.e., eBay was able to disregard identical bids sent by AS on my behalf), but choked on a total of 5 identical bids sent by some sniping service on behalf of the other bidder (including, as you point out, 2 bids with identical time stamps of 17:43:18 PDT).

Does this seem believable? I appreciate your thoughts, Rick! If anyone else has any experience with this, please add your comments.

3/15/109:02 AM

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