Auctionsniper invalid on Ebay Germany?

I have not heard of anything like this or read anything from Ebay and don't know why Ebay, Germany would be any different than U S.

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My understanding is that it's up to the German seller to honor a snipe or not.

Many thanks Rick, that's made it very clear.

Well, rick, is that not the same as here? It is not a refusal policy of Ebay or at least one that is enforced.

Most of those posts are from many months and some even years ago. The seller can refuse to sell something to you for whatever reason he wants, pretty much. Of course, if you wanted to take matters further you could drag him into court over it since the bid is a legally binding contract, but usually one just leaves a nasty feedback and leaves it at that.

How can an eBay seller tell when an item has been sniped? How does he know it was placed by AS or another similar service and it wasnt just the user who manually snipped it?

For more information on this subject, interested parties might want to do a search. I just ran Google on "ebay germany sniping" and got 1,700 hits. If you add "bans" to the search, it brings the hits down to 68, but then you would have to include "forbids", "inhibits", "prohibits" ... - your thesaurus works as good as mine.

Here's one article, but regrettably, it's from "years" ago:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y02/m10/i25/s02

18700 for the U S under Ebay sniping and 711 under illegal ebay sniping. And so the world goes.