AS one WHOLE minute off

Yes, i also recognized, that Auction Snipers time is 67 seconds behind eBay (which seems to be wright).
I just added 67 additional seconds to my snipes.
Lets hope it works

bajafresk,

The amount of time on My Snipes page DOES NOT control when the snipe is placed.

From FAQ:
http://www.auctionsniper.com/faqebay.aspx#faq_1a_lbl
From another topic:
https://community.auctionsniper.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=84...=397108087#397108087

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Originally posted by Sniper Donovan J.:
The absolute most important thing to remember about that blasted little countdown thing on the mysnipes page is:

That time in no way reflects when your snipe will go off.

It is a nifty little javascript counter that makes nice eye-candy, but isn't an intergral part of the snipe process. It's just a web page countdown.

soooo according to that, even though the clock is completely wrong, it will still snipe at the right time?

The time on the AS My Snipes page is a piece of code that works on your PC's clock. Think about it, as AS will snipe when your PC is switched off then why would the times on the My Snipes page have any relation to anything.

I love it that some dimwit has adjusted the lead time to compensate - I hate it that AS has put in this code to confuse people!

R2

mmm kay i sychronized my clock on my computer so now my countdown times are matching, theyre back on track.

but one more thing, my AS countdown matches ebay's, but the end date on AS is off by 3 hours, even though the countdown is right (the auction ends at 1 in the morning and is counting down to 1 in the morning but it says the end day its 10 PM the previous night)

bajafresk,

Click on Modify Account on My Snipes. Take a look at “Display Timezone”. Is that the same as you have set on your eBay account?

P.S. Nothing to do with current topic, but don’t remember seeing “End Time Updates” on the Modify Account page. Don't know if that's something new, or just bad memory on my part.

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Originally posted by Rick:
P.S. Nothing to do with current topic, but don’t remember seeing “End Time Updates” on the Modify Account page. Don't know if that's something new, or just bad memory on my part.

Been there for ages...

I'm still not sure that bajafresk gets it - the times and dates on My Snipes are just for info - AS's servers calculate the lead time and snipe when necessary - no need to watch on My Snipes.

R2

I've been using bid groups to get the best price on certain videogames over the past few days and today especially (a 2 yesterday) I got the error "NOT IN TIME" for 5 auctions. I've given up and am now sniping manually. Rediculous.

I also came here a little peeved this evening. I've been using AS for more than 3 years and only once ever had a problem (when there was a power outage).

Tonight I lost one auction because my snipe was placed 15 seconds before the end of the auction, allowing another bid to be placed.

And I lost a section auction because it says the bid was not placed in time. I have always had my snipes set for 5 seconds.

In the past I've noticed they've been off a second or two but not by 10 whole seconds in one auction, then apparently way too late in another.

I'm not a happy camper this evening.

sorry

section auction=second auction

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Originally posted by Apathist:
I've given up and am now sniping manually. Rediculous.

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Originally posted by cravingsforsavings:
I'm not a happy camper this evening.

If someone wants help from the users on this forum, they should supply the auction number, lead-time, and bid amount. If someone wants help from AS’ technical support, they should file a support request. If someone just wants to vent, they should disregard my first two sentences (not judiciary).

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Tonight I lost one auction because my snipe was placed 15 seconds before the end of the auction, allowing another bid to be placed.

Hmm - so another bidder saw your bid go in and placed a higher one! Doubtful - you were outsniped - remember, it's not the last bid it's the highest that wins.

R2

Call it "venting" if you wish, I was just simply confirming that my snipes aren't going through. Without confirmation from other users you might as well assume that AS just had one bad hit and the rest of your snipes for the night are fine.

I don't need help deciphering what happened in the auctions I lost. I did lose because my snipe was placed too early.

My snipe outbid the previous high bidder and they came back with 6 seconds to go and placed another bid, that outbid my snipe. Then I received a lovely email joking about us going back and forth with our bids. Of course, I wasn't even at my computer.

I signed up for a ID here and posted what I did because SOMETHING is wrong with AS lately. No matter what anyone wants to say or explain away. SOMETHING has changed and it needs to be looked at and fixed.

The powers that be know that snipes are being placed VERY early and/or VERY late for many users. They don't need my particulars to find the problem.

This is a forum where you can talk to other users (some with lots'n'lots of experience) - as you "don't need help" here then I suggest you click on the HELP tab and log a support call to AS Support who will be able to help you specifically.
The forums are rarely frequented by AS Staff, they're (the forums) here for newbies to ask questions prior to reading the FAQs and for people to let off steam when they lose that 'must have' item when someone who can place a bid manually 1 second from the end of an auction has beaten their snipe by 1 cent/pence!

R2
ps. why use 5 seconds when everyone on the forums specifies 8 (or thereabouts)? You've seen for yourself that AS adjusts it anyway so why risk 'not in time' errors?

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My snipe outbid the previous high bidder and they came back with 6 seconds to go and placed another bid

If that was your max, then you were outbid fair & square!

Agreed you do seem to have fallen to one who increased his bid a bit later, but you were engaging in a marginal bidding war and the risk of losing is very high indeed.

However AS is but a simple tool to place bids near the end of an auction. It is no substitute for your research into what other buyers may do.

e.g. Some Kastrup Holmegaard glassware this week:
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=7421418056

I had seen that this type of glass ended up around £30. So had everybody else. I got it for £33 because all who participated were around the £30 mark because they had reached the same conclusion. If I had bid around this region when I had first seen it at £15 and I hadn't done my research then I would have gone for £31.78 and lost.

In fact I bid over £40 to get me well clear of the opposition. In your example, another bidder would` have upped his bid, but he would have probably gone for mid £30s.

So if you want something badly, you have to pay a premium - AS or manual bidding makes no difference. An auction is an auction - bidding at the last second has no effect on the outcome if I am prepared to pay more than you!

If you want to "mix it" with the "lets get a bargain" crew, then you must expect to lose 50% of the auctions you participate in.

Paul

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remember, it's not the last bid it's the highest that wins.

I suspected there was a catch.

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I suspected there was a catch.

Especially if you have just made the highest bid manually and realised that you missed the end of the auction!

(Yes, I did that loads of times trying to cut things far too fine - now I am a relaxed AS user!)