Reply to "so umm what's up with AS now?"

hrukMember

Lucky ole you. I've lost 3 items in the past few days because the snipes weren't placed - all went for peanuts. I wish AS would be honest enough to give the reason as "We screwed up" instead of "Did not win".

The impact of AS being down is catastrophic for its users. We don't know when/if it's going to break, therefore we can't trust it. It's clearly not set up as fail-safe like most business systems. If we can't trust it, then we might as well bid manually.

The reliability of any service has 2 factors - the amount of down-time and the impact of down-time. The latter, in my experience, has been more than 1% but, whatever it is, the impact is total. 3 free snipes (about $1) is hardly compensation for losing bids this way.

There are other sniping software packages out there so I'm looking.

6/29/081:42 PM

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