99.9% FAILURE rate

You got me! My snipes are working just fine. I have only lost EVER cuz I bid too low. My fault, not AS! And, I have sniped many, many times.

I have 13 free snipes. For each snipe that AS messed up on, I get one extra free snipe. So that means that since I started with 3 freesnipes to begin with, at least 10 snipes have failed consequetively. I have yet to win ONCE using auctionsniper.


Beats me as to why AS is so apparently popular. I mean, if I can't win at least once in 10 tries, then what's so great about this service? I might have one at least once using traditional methods of posting my bids at ebay, surely.

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Originally posted by 2fargon:
I have put in as many as 60 snipes in the last 2-3 days.

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Originally posted by 2fargon:
So that means that since I started with 3 freesnipes to begin with, at least 10 snipes have failed consequetively. I have yet to win ONCE using auctionsniper.

Hi 2fargon,

What happened on the other 50 snipes?

Rick,

On some (most) the price I set was too low, in a few, the reserve price was not met. I think I have never been outbid -- that is I guess a snipe was placed and someone out-sniped me or something.

Right now, I have stopped deleting my snipes and started archiving them, just so I have a record to speak of. I was in the habit of deleting completed snipes thus far.

(Update: I wonder if, even though I deleted the old snipes, the system admins would have some way of knowing the history of my snipes - which would be useul.)

Hmm, well I'd be interested in seeing these failed snipes you are talking about. Care to share some auction numbers? And yes, the administrators can still trace them even if you delete them.

After some sluething, I found AS report emails in the trash folder of my mail. These are the ones that AS failed on, since Friday 3 AM (Feb 17). As for the others, I don't have anyway of tracing the ebay item number, since my bids were never placed, and I have deleted them from my AS account. Some of these are from today.

The list, then:

(Item # 8259293794)
Seller: gsu_11819
Your Max Bid: US $105.00
Current Item Price: US $77.00

(Item # 8259842721)
Seller: mocop237
Your Max Bid: US $122.00
Current Item Price: US $105.00

(Item # 8259764629)
Seller: ga_dawg03
Your Max Bid: US $107.00
Current Item Price: US $96.00

(Item # 8259125863)
Seller: tjprescott
Your Max Bid: US $95.00
Current Item Price: US $91.00

(Item # 8259085280)
Seller: jason_4049
Your Max Bid: US $102.00
Current Item Price: US $80.00

(Item # 8259602615)
Seller: misc1600
Your Max Bid: US $107.00
Current Item Price: US $102.50

(Item # 8259529610)
Seller: aurora126
Your Max Bid: US $122.00
Current Item Price: US $105.50

(Item # 8259998403)
Seller: d_rae_skribblez
Your Max Bid: US $151.00
Current Item Price: US $142.50

I have copied and pasted these straight from the emails. On a line below this in the email, for all of the above, it says:
_____

Status Summary: Did Not Win
Your snipe did not win because of the reason above

Thanks for trying to help.

Is “2fargon” an assessment of your current opinion of AS, or are you still salvageable, or is that a general ID that you use?

It is just a random username I use, among others, but right now, it appears like it is an accurate description of the state of my sniping

Rick, what is your assesment of the situation? The list doesn't tell me much as I cannot see his/her play in it. It appears at the time I assume the auction was still live.

I just, a moment ago, had another AS snipe go off like clockwork and I won.

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Originally posted by Shirl:
Rick, what is your assesment of the situation? The list doesn't tell me much as I cannot see his/her play in it. It appears at the time I assume the auction was still live.

I didn’t think asking 2fargon for the failed snipes would accomplish anything.



2fargon,

My advice is to work with support on this. They are the best source of information, as they have access to things that aren’t available to forum members. With this number of unsuccessful snipes, something definitely stinks, and it seems to have singled you out with a passion. You might get an AS employee that will only give you a standard, canned response, but this isn’t a standard situation. You definitely can’t continue to place snipes with this kind of failure rate. Obviously, free snipes won't cut it. Keep hounding the support person until you get a satisfactory answer, or change your ID to Imoutofhere.


Good luck

I have posted a support ticket for the second time. lets see how it goes.

Well, I really think someone will step in and clear this up. I do know they can give you the complete history of every action you have taken and they have taken. It may be after the weekend, however.

i got a foo-bar standard response saying it was just random chance. When I said the chances of me missing 10 consecutive snipes with the famous 99.9% success rate was about 1 in 10 billion, another dude told me they have a problem and are working on fixing it. I suppose i have to wait for them to fix the system/software.

I would like to see Bill, Kevin, or Sarah perhaps post an answer to this here. For me at least, all this is too hard to follow. And since my snipes are going off as usual, it is a little hard to understand.

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Originally posted by 2fargon:
i got a foo-bar standard response saying it was just random chance. When I said the chances of me missing 10 consecutive snipes with the famous 99.9% success rate was about 1 in 10 billion, another dude told me they have a problem and are working on fixing it. I suppose i have to wait for them to fix the system/software.

2far,

At least you didn’t change your ID. You see that “99.9%” thing a lot. I’m always suspicious when I see that. I wouldn’t question 99.8%, or even 99.918%. It’s just something about 99.9% that gets me to wondering.

This is the last response from support (Sniper Bill) pertaining to the current problem(s):
https://community.auctionsniper.com/eve/forums/a/tpc...251018051#9251018051
As you can see, that’s was almost a month ago.



P.S. I don’’t think it would be 1 in 10 billion. I think it’s 1000 to the 10th power. I'm not even sure the number would fit in a single post.

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Originally posted by Rick:
P.S. I don’’t think it would be 1 in 10 billion. I think it’s 1000 to the 10th power. I'm not even sure the number would fit in a single post.

Sorry, 2far. That statement is an exaggeration. Not only will the number fit on a single post, but on a single line. With a 99.9% success rate, to have 10 consecutive failures, the odds would be:
1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
(Hopefully someone will check my math. Good thing they didn't say 99.99%)

There is something going on that may be specific to your account (AS or ebay), or you are the unluckiest person in this galaxy. At this point, it might even be rational to develop some conspiracy theories.

Without looking I can already say this is almost for sure a bad bid group. Solution, quit using it and make a new one!

i.e. Don't put another item into that bid group. Make a new one and put it into that one.

Also free snipes are meant to per a per win basis. So obviously it doesn't make sense for us to give 16 free snipes for something like this. I've credited 2 for the item for this bidgroup and removed the rest.

Oh, so I of course went and looked and indeed it was a bid group issue.

Actually you have a 100% failure rate because of your corrupt bid group(s). I deleted your two empty bid groups which were causing this issue. Please create a new bid group (or groups). There was an issue with your bid groups (our site was not going to bid on any more items in those groups as it assumed you had a win).

You did the right thing by filling a support case. If you have further issues with bid groups or need a tutorial, please don't hesitate to contact our support.

Bill

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Originally posted by Sniper Sara B.:
Also free snipes are meant to per a per win basis. So obviously it doesn't make sense for us to give 16 free snipes for something like this. I've credited 2 for the item for this bidgroup and removed the rest.

Boy now this is some information of general interest that people can really use and benefit from.

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"Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:31

As it's not Sunday can we change this to a non-religious comment?

R2