Hard to believe considering your apparent incomprehension of how this whole AuctionSniper/Ebay/proxy bidding interaction thing works.quote:...I have been using this site for several years...
When you enter a bid (generally recommended to be your MAXIMUM bid which means you wouldn't be willing to bid more EVEN IF someone else is willing to bid more) into AuctionSniper(AS), it DOES NOT place a bid for you on that auction at that time (if that's what you want, why bother to use AS at all, just sign on to ebay and place your bid yourself). When you enter a bid in AS, what you have done is to SCHEDULE a bid to be placed by AS in your behalf at a specified time (generally 25 seconds or less) before the end of the auction. AS & Ebay are totally separate entities. Ebay has no clue that AS plans to place that bid for you in the last remaining seconds of the auction. Likewise, AS is not privy to any proxy bids that ebay is holding. All AS knows about the auction's bids is the same that you know when you look at the auction yourself -- what the CURRENT winning bid is. If your scheduled snipe is outbid with some time remaining before the end of the auction, AS sends out an outbid e-mail notice. An AS representative would need to check in to let us know at what minimum time remaining in the auction does AS bother sending out that e-mail. Logic would dictate that it would be a waste of time & resources to send out that outbid notice with only seconds remaining in the auction -- there would be no time to even READ such info regarding the auction, much less to act on it before the auction ends!
Referring to my last post with the bid history, up until 8 seconds before the end of your auction, your snipe of $47.58 was a valid & viable bid since the winning bid was $24.50 or less up to that time. At the 8 second mark before the auction end, a bid was placed that bumped up the winning bid to $50.99 held by the eventual winner. If your snipe was scheduled to fire at 5 seconds, AS would not be able to place the bid since at that moment your $47.58 snipe bid was too low to be a valid bid. You simply were outbid before you had a chance to place a bid.
Not quite sure what your complaint is in this issue. If it is you didn't have a chance to increase your snipe bid to your TRUE MAX bid -- why didn't you enter your TRUE MAX bid when you initially scheduled the snipe? If your complaint is that you lost an auction because there was somebody out there that had deeper pockets/was willing to pay more than you for an item you wanted -- well, we've ALL been THERE!
