Add another early bid to the list. I've been using As for a couple of years now, but infrequently. A couple days ago it placed my bid 22 seconds before the auction ended, instead of the 4 second lead time I entered. Checking the bid history on the auction it showed the winner as having placed a bid manually 6 seconds prior to the close of auction. He had no other bids before then. Is the early bid placement problem happening more often recently? I know there are other sites similar to AS that are free also. I may try using some of them if this is becoming more of a problem.