When you’re paying for a service, you should only pay for the service that you are expecting, or been lead to expect. If your primary goal is to have the snipe placed, exactly when you requested, or even within a second or two, then AS will sometimes, and maybe even often, disappoint you. AS will place the snipe earlier than requested if it thinks it needs more time to hit your "target" lead-time, and it isn’t always accurate. On Sunday evenings and auctions that end on the exact quarter hour (ebay prime time) that can sometimes be 45 or 60 seconds early. You’re the buyer, so it’s always the buyer’s call.quote:Issue is that my bid went in the wrong time and not like I set it up.
Fred, I’ll have to take issue with you on that one. I think, as I said above, that you’re justified in your purchasing requirements, but I have a hard time believing that the difference between a 9 second snipe and a 5 second snipe doubles the possibility that someone could place a retaliatory snipe (respond to your snipe). I suppose it’s possible.quote:Thats twice the chance to loose a bid.
The main thing which I don’t think you’ll get any disagreement on (at least on this forum) – sniping is usually the best way to bid on ebay.