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An "oops..." and a question

S shirleyMember
OOPS! I put in a manual proxy a few days ago on an item I was kinda ambivalent about. Opening bid was $1.99, so I figured if I could win it for that, great; if not, no loss. Then I imported it to my bid group, thinking to track it that way. Didn't occur to me at the time that AS would think I wanted to snipe it, since it's in my bid group and I didn't change the item's quantity to zero... I won it for the opening (manual) bid, but it cost me a snipe. My fault, obviously. Oops. Maybe someone else will learn from my mistake!

My question, though, is Where do you find a counter that tells you how many items in that bid group you've won? The only counter I see is on the Manage Folders page, and it still says "0 of 2" even though I've won one of the items in that group. Am I looking in the wrong place, or is there no counter? Or has it just not updated yet?
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puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
Morning Shirley

Sounds like you're doing (almost Smile) everything right. The "0" in "0 of 2" is the only counter I know of.

My understanding is: If you want to win 1 auction and have 2 in a bid group ending 30 seconds apart, AS should bid on the first and be able to verify a loss in time to bid on the second. To me, that means your count should be updated within seconds of a win.

The only reason for that change to not be displayed is if you cache the page, or have it loaded and don't refresh.

S shirleyMember
I don't have that many auctions going at once. I'm a dabbler (grin). I've only won one this week. And my purple folder in the "My Folders" page still says "0 of 2" even though there are three purple auctions -- two "Ready" and one "You Won!" So shouldn't that say "1 of 2"?

I saw a post somewhere that mentioned that editing the numbers might mess up the group -- what's that about? Could that be the problem? I think I originally had the folder set to win one item, then changed it to two, and I know I've deleted a few of the items I originally had in the group...
puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
Maybe I've figured this out. You've stumbled across a programming bug ?
How does this sound:

1. You were charged the snipe because AS placed a bid and you won the auction.

2. Since you manually bid and won the auction for that price, AS received a 'bid to low' message from eBay for the snipe. THAT bid didn't win, so your win count was not incremented.

Does that make sense to anyone but me?

( I'm a dabbler too. )


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S shirleyMember
(Scary, ain't it?)

So the bid group counter is not looking at the items won/lost in the folder, just counting the items that AS itself won. But if that "Bid Too Low" registered with AS, I wouldn't think it would charge me for the win, and we all know it does. Bit of a contradiction here, which could result in people winning more items in a bid group than they counted on, if they're manually sniping as a back up...

If we get a little bit more snow, I think I could walk across the river to Canada from here...
puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
Seems the billing test for a win is different that the bid group test for a win. Shouldn't be hard to change, but may be more going on than I realize. I asked support to look at this thread. I mentioned no response was neccessary, but will let everyone know if I DO get a response.

Ready for the ice storm tonight and 3-6 inches of snow tomarrow?

puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
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Think that's a bit overstated, but stay in FL anyway. Sorry about your loss.

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S shirleyMember
Remember that bid group that wasn't updating? It was set to win two items. The first item I won, but I did it with a low proxy bid, and I accidentally used up a snipe in the process. After that auction, the bid group folder said "0 of 2" and I had one free snipe left.

Today I just won another item in that bid group (YEAY!!!) and now it says "2 of 2" but I still have one free snipe left.

I'm not complaining, just seemed a bit odd. All is right with the world.

AS Rocks!
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