Poor ol'Marge - she asks a newbie-question and gets 1 word answers. Ouch!
Marge, AS has its own servers that log on as if it was you. You just place your snipe and walk away - AS does all the work on your behalf. Do read the FAQs on AS (and about Proxy Bidding on eBay) and all should make sense.
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