A bit of help

Think of AS as logging into eBay for you and entering in your bid during the last few seconds of the auction.

So if you place a max bid on AS for $150, with a lead time of five seconds, then five seconds (or so) before the auction ends, AS will log in for you and place a proxy bid of $150.

You might think, "Well, then there's no difference between a bid on eBay and a bid on AS." The two major differences, for me at least, are:

1. Since AS doesn't actually place your bid until the last few seconds, you get to cancel your AS bid, or change it, up until AS actually does place the bid. So if you do some research, and discover that the maximum price you're willing to pay should be higher or lower, you can change it easily because your bid hasn't been placed yet. In other words, you're not committed until the final moment.

2. You can "fire and forget" an AS bid. Unlike manually sniping, AS will place the bid for you, so you don't have to remember to log in and place your bid at the last second.

Hope that helps!

Autophile, very well explained! The only thing I want to add is you cannot change your snipe after the last 2 minutes because at that point it is being loaded into the system to snipe.

Orr, welcome to the forum!

rsmiller40

I have lost three (ten per cent) of my auctions using AS with a 7 second lead time. I have been told that we need to expand our lead time to perhaps as much as 30 seconds during peak hours on Sunday evening. This lead time expansion defeats the purpose of sniping, but may be the only way to buy the item right if you can't be at your coumputer to do a maunal snipe.

Nevada, I don't do that much time. I follow 8 sec. normal times and add 15 sec. during Sunday, hour, half, quarter. It has worked for me everytime so far.

rsmiller40

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Nevada Jack posted: I have been told that we need to expand our lead time to perhaps as much as 30 seconds during peak hours on Sunday evening. This lead time expansion defeats the purpose of sniping, but may be the only way to buy the item right if you can't be at your coumputer to do a maunal snipe.

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Well, yes...and no. You're right that normally having too much of a lead time would defeat much of the purpose of sniping; however, when it is a peak and/or heavy eBay traffic period one must remember that even if you have a lead time of, say, 25 seconds, it might not actually be placed until, say, 11 seconds (if eBay is overwhelmed and slow) PLUS, remember that even if one of your bidding competitors sees your snipe, any new bid that they might try to place, in the last seconds, probably won't get into eBay in time before auction's end.

WarriorNun

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rsmiller40