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The winning bids are for the same amount and exactly the same time, and are both less than a bid increment above yours.
True. Something I failed to see.
I think the 2 snipes with the same time stamp were caused by a sniping service that places redundant snipes, similar to AS. AS will place (the last I heard, so it may be more) 4 separate snipes from different servers. They do this to better insure that at least one of them gets placed. Now, ebay isn’t suppose to allow a bidder to bid the same amount multiple times, but if both snipes fire at just the right moment, than apparently ebay doesn’t have the time to determine that a specific bidder has placed identical bids. There was one example posted on this forum where AS ended up getting 3 identical snipes in, and recorded in the bid history. But, typically, the first snipe blocks the other redundant snipes.
I agree with Smart. This doesn’t look like someone responded to an early snipe. It looks more like a sniping service, which would have placed its snipe regardless of your lead-time.
Would be a chuckle if the winning snipe was placed by AS.