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In short; Does AS follow the currency of the auction?

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Yes it does

Thankyou, Sara

Traps.

Huh? I'm following item #2941394877 in Australia. The minimum bid is $99.00 in Australian Dollars.

I built a snipe for $66 and AS rejected it saying it doen't meet the minimum.

Are you saying that I snipe in US Dollars (for example $100 in this case), and AS does NOT SHOW THIS TO ME, yet I'm not bidding $100 in Australian Dollars? The auction was CREATED in Australian Dollars.

In what sense does AS "follow" the currency?

jlamadoo

Lama

What I mean to say was the minimum bid is AU $99.00, or Approximately US $65.40.

If AS "follows the currency, why does AS reject my snipe of 68?

Whatever currency the auction is listed in, THAT is what you bid in. This cannot be changed. This has NOTHING to do with AS; it is an Ebay procedure. If you bid manually on eBay, it is the same. AS places your bid exactly as you do on eBay; it merely places at late in the auction.

If the auction says 99 Australian dollars, then a bid of 105 will be 105 Australian dollars. if it says 1,534, 400 Italian lire, then a bid of 10,000,000 will be lire, not dollars. If it says 488 Icelandic boogers, then a bid of 600 will be 600 boogers. That is how eBay works; AS has no control over this. Lately eBay has been listing the US dollar equivalents under the auction currency, but this is only as a courtesy and in no way impacts your bidding in the proper currency.

So, AS is right to tell you that 68 is an unacceptable bid, because 68 Aussie bucks is definitely lower than 99 Aussie bucks.