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AS bid made 20minutes early + strange bid history

D denispibMember
An AS bid of mine was made 20mins (to the
second) before the end of an auction - pretty
hopeless as a snipe !

Also I spotted the following in the bid history
of an item that I failed to get...
Item was 5126563600
It ended : 03-Oct-04 11:41:05 BST

The top four entries on the bid history were:
Bidder A £45.05 03-Oct-04 11:29:03 BST
Bidder B £45.05 03-Oct-04 11:41:01 BST
Bidder C £39.44 03-Oct-o4 11:40:53 BST
Bidder D £35.05 02-Oct-04 22:08:07 BST

Bidder A won the item ?
[ my max was £45.25 - rats Frown ]

What I don't understand is that the system
appears to have accepted a bid from Bidder C
that was lower than the prevailing price
of the item...It also seems strange that the
amounts for bidders A & B are exactly the same.

From the timings it looks like both bidders
B and C could have been snipes - bidder A
clearly wasn't...

Cheers

Denis
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puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
Your bid would be placed that early if your auction ended Friday morning at about 1:20 AM eBay time.

AS goes down for maintenance each Friday morning between 1 and 3 AM. Snipes that fall into this time slot are placed just before the servers are taken down. AS picks this time because eBay also does maintenance and the site/features may be intermittently down.
D denispibMember
quote:
Originally posted by Puppy Raiser:
Your bid would be placed that early if your auction ended Friday morning at about 1:20 AM eBay time.

AS goes down for maintenance each Friday morning between 1 and 3 AM. Snipes that fall into this time slot are placed just before the servers are taken down. AS picks this time because eBay also does maintenance and the site/features may be intermittently down.


Spot on - The auction ended [Friday] 01-Oct-04
09:20:57 BST and the early snipe was made at
09:00:57 BST. An outside US problem I guess - will have to watch that one...

Thanks for the explanation of the bid history
(apologies for not making it clear that it
was two different ones).

If I understand correctly then EBay will accept a snipe bid that is lower than the prevailing bid - which is what happened in this example
Bidder C was able to snipe bid £39.44 after
Bidder A had bid £45.05. Am I correct in thinking that this can't happen with manual
bidding as EBay won't accept a lower or equal
bid ?

Many thanks for the replies

Denis

P.S. I wasn't Bidder A, B or C - just wondered what was going on Smile
puppyraiserpuppyraiserMember
quote:
If I understand correctly then EBay will accept a snipe bid that is lower than the prevailing bid
Placing a bid via AS (except for timing) is exactly like placing a manual bid at eBay. Your bid must be more than the current price by at least one increment. The current price may be less (and usually is) than a max bid. Remember, eBay bid history only shows max amounts for the underbidders. Bid history is in amount order, the following is in time order.

Bidder D bids 35.05
Bidder A bids 45.05 -- A winning, current price 36.05    <-- (edit to correct)
Bidder C bids 39.44 -- A winning, current price 40.44
Bidder B bids 45.05 -- A winning, current price 45.05

Next minimum bid is 46.05, so your bid was rejected as less than the minimum allowed.
Last edited by puppyraiser

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