Another dumb question

AS bids on your behalf so your AS bid would have the same effect as you upping your proxy bid.

There are some circumstances where this will 'up' the high bid but usually not...

So, in the absence of other bidders (be they snipers or manuals) you'd win at $15 (if it was the 1st bid) or $16 (if it wasn't).

That said, AS will, I think, charge you for the snipe as you sniped and you won - seems fair!

You would win the auction at $15.25 if no one else bid higher, even though you put in a manual snipe as well as an AS one. But you would still pay the AS .25¢ fee, since they placed a snipe for you and you won.

Had someone bid, say, $17.50, you would have won the auction for $17.75, and so forth, up to your max bid of $25, after which you would be outbid. It does not matter whether the bid was placed manually by you or by AS on your behalf. You have given AS your eBay ID and password, and authorized them to bid on your behalf. eBay has no way of knowing this; they receive the bid the same way, in either case.

Thanks for your help. So now I'll know to bid both by proxy and with AS on items I can't live without, just in case e-Bay goes down again.

But doesn't that defeat the object?
Your proxy bid will bid up against any other bidders to your max. What will having AS also bidding for you do? Or will you put AS in at a higher amount?

Fordfalcons, take another look at what you wrote. If eBay goes down again your AS bid won't register, so what's the point of using it as a backup to your proxy in that situation?