Reply to "What's a good safe lead time?"

azuresonMember

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Originally posted by Mrs.M:
This subject always amazes me. I have never been out-sniped when I have used a 7 or 8 second snipe. Not unless I am simply outbid because my bid was not high enough, has this happened.

Interesting discussion. Mrs. M, I was recently out-sniped, almost definitely by manual means, on a recent auction for a laboratory centrifuge. The bidding history revealed that my snipe was actually posted about 14 seconds (if I remember correctly) prior to the auction end. This allowed enough time for a determined competitor to SNIPE THE SNIPER.

I was a little surprised, to put it mildly.

My snipe lead time was set to 10 sec. I assume AS adjusts the time based on the variability of pings to Ebay.

Regards,
Az

9/29/061:02 PM

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