Add 10-15 seconds??

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Am I understanding correctly

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Yes, you got it! Durring very busy times, response times get longer. Everyone that 'schedules' an auction start chooses even quarter hours :15, :30, :45, and :00. That's why those are also high traffic times.

Sunday mornings and after about 10pm (pst) are not as busy, so not as much lead time is needed.

As to setting time zone... doesn't matter.

Luck to ya.

Janie,
I use 8 seconds during normal times. On the hour, half,& quarter, I usually add about 10 seconds. On Sunday, between 5:00 and 8:30 PST, I add about 15 seconds to the 8 seconds. Most importantly, remember to bid the max you are willing to pay. The highest bid wins!!

Thanks for the info

Things have actually been running extremely well, even on Sundays since eBay upgraded their hardware. Because of that leadtimes of 10 seconds would likely work on quarter hours.

Additionally with the nice weather business on eBay has slowed a bid. Maybe 5-10%. It wont pick up again until mid August. My guess 10 second bids on sunday will be fine, but come late August things will slowly get worse each weak until near Christmas.

Only 9 snipes in the past 75,000 snipes we've sent to eBay have not been placed in time. And those were probably 1 second snipes at peak times. So things are running pretty good right now.

Knock on wood...

Sara, Thanks for the info !!

Yes, thank you, Sara! I sure appreciate the updated information!

Hi! I am from Germany and mostly working on ebay.de. I do love Auctionsniper, it worked quite well for me most of the time. Today I noticed, that the time at AS and eBay.de differs quite a bit: e.g. an auction has 5 min 10 seconds to go according to ebay, my snipes told me there are 6 minutes left! This will not work! I do not dare to put the lead to like 1 minute, I do not want my price to be pushed up (which is uquite common here unfortunately!) Is there anyway to synchronize the times?
Thanks for any suggestions!

This has been pointed out before but don't worry - AS assures us that the sniping servers are exactly in step with eBay's...

set up a snipe and see what happens!

R2