Thanks for your input. The real purpose of my post was to see if anyone else had the problem of AS placing the snipe with a minute and forty seconds to go. If you look at the auction bid history item #3532137645, you would see that if my bid would have been placed at 5 seconds to go I would have won for around $11.50 but with one minute plus to go the other bidder was able to place 4 additional bids until they won. I have seen a lot of posts concerning bids placed at 10+ seconds but not one with a minute plus.
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