Please check this Ebay Auction. # 280375925388.
I still won the Auction but by my Bid going off at 9 seconds it gave the other guy time to raise it $ 50.00. This was set for 5 seconds. Please explain.
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Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time p***1( 4 ) US $801.03 Jul-25-09 17:59:51 PDT 1***i( 0 ) US $800.00 Jul-25-09 17:59:18 PDT 1***i( 0 ) US $750.00 Jul-25-09 17:58:19 PDT e***l( 18) US $682.00 Jul-25-09 17:59:09 PDT e***l( 18) US $632.00 Jul-25-09 17:54:21 PDT
The “ 9 seconds cost me $ 51.00” might cause someone (not me, of course) to disagree.quote:I'm not really complaining
Don’t see how that’s possible.quote:On one of the Screens it showed me making a bid of $760.00 at 59:51
You’d have to ask him, but it would seem that he wasn’t comfortable with the spread between the current price and his high bid, so he increased.quote:What I don't understand is why he would bid $800 when he was already the high bidder, at $ 750
He bid BEFORE you did, so how did he know you were bidding and what you were bidding?quote:unless $800 was his maximum bid and I forced him to use it by coming in early.
Perhaps you would elaborate?quote:Another thought, Ebay must have prioity over As.
quote:Lets say he had a max price of $800 but was high bidder at $ 750, with 1 second left my snipe comes in at $ 760. Ebay has to respond even if they ran out of time since their member had a max bid of $ 800
Since AS uses multiple servers to place multiple snipes as a backup, from time to time ebay receives the snipes so close together that it doesn’t have time to know that the same bid amount was place multiple times by the same user. Typically the bids will have the same timestamp, but sometimes they’ll be a second apart, as yours were. Seems like someone once reported ebay accepting FOUR identical AS snipes.quote:but why two snipes?
No. You aren't charged by the snipe, but by the win. One win - one charge.quote:And am I being charged for 2 snipes?