Basic question about bid groups

Answer to 1) is YES. You got it exactly right.

2) You will not win more than the number you want. (it can be more than one). AS places a bid on the first item. They must verify a loss before they will bid on the next. Bids can be missed for auctions ending very close together.

example: two auctions end 10 seconds apart, and your lead time is 7 seconds.

AS will bid on the first auction. They must wait till the end and then query eBay to check the status. Since your lead time is 7 seconds, that only gives AS 3 seconds to verify a loss before bidding on the second auction. That's cutting it very close, so you may get a 'Not in Time' on the second auction. Durring slow times it may work, but on Sunday evenings when response times are 20 seconds or more, AS will not have a chance to bid on the second. The best way to deal with this, (it still may not work) is to change your lead time on the second auction to something shorter. This will give AS more time to verify and bid.

In any case you should NEVER win more than the number you want.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, Puppy Raiser, that helps me a great deal.

The difference in end-times on these two items is only 6 secs, so that's risky, if not impossible. As only one bid has appeared in advance, on the first item, I might let that buyer go for that, and bid on the second item which isn't showing any advance bids yet. Bit messy though.

I wonder how many others have that same idea. I (personal feeling) would go for the first, and set the second auction for a lead time of one second.

Just something to think about...

Good luck, and let us know what you decide and how it works?

Hmmmm....
Well, I didn't get it using my way. Actually it's a whole string of Buy it Now items over the next 24 hours with very few bidders revealing themselves.

I have set up another Bid Group. The starting bids are £29-90 but what I don't understand now is that my (lying-in-wait) 2nd Snipe of £33-50 is flagged up as Bid Below Minimum by AS and the bid increment in this range is £1.

Any clues?

...in fact 2 minutes later all my snipes have been flagged up as Bid Below Min. by AS - same figures as above.

Could it be that the prices are rising but you're just looking at the My Snipes page without clicking on the Update Prices button?

Let us know if that solves it...

R2

No, that's not it. I have updated regularly, and also followed 'live' on eBay. Do you want some more info to solve the problem?

I could email you details....

2 mins later (am I hallucinating?) just one flagged up now, and that's the only with a starting bid which seems to be causing the problem perhaps?

OK I'm confused. All bid warnings have disappeared.

The false warnings are a little scary, but don't worry to much about them. As I understand it, AS will send your bid even if it thinks it's to low to win.

Best place to watch closing auctions is at eBay, as you can only update prices at AS once every 5 minutes. For more spread out auctions, watching them one at a time, check out >THIS< web site.

Awesome link, many thanks Puppy Raiser - very useful. Still uncertain how AS behaved yesterday. Although I won the first item in my group, and all paid and sorted with seller, it doesn't appear in my AS wins....
Boswell
(by the way, do Woodles exist in your part of the world? - Westie/Poodle crosses)

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Although I won the first item in my group, and all paid and sorted with seller, it doesn't appear in my AS wins...

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Click on the 'Import My Wins' button? Also has the 2.0 beta version of My eBay made it to you yet? AS may not be able to handle that. Here in the states, they switch you back to the original and then import, but may not for eBay UK. (you are in the UK, right?)

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do Woodles exist in your part of the world?

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I'm sure they do, but I've not seen one. We would probably call them something else.

Working dog groups are starting to cross Labs and Goldens. They look like labs but the hair is finer and softer. They train standard poodles for those with alergies, but I've not heard of a test cross yet. I work mostly with Labs, Goldens and Shepards. I know a bit of trivia for other breeds, but don't really know them.