earlly bid

Sometimes, during heave traffic hours, AS will adjust lead times to insure a snipe is placed. If they estimate your 5 second lead time may not get registered at eBay, they will attempt to increase lead times. This does not happen often. Not knowing the auction number I just have to guess, but your auction probably ended in the evening between 7:00 and 10:00 and ended on an exact quarter hour. Too many items end on the exact quarter hours because of the way scheduling for sellers works at eBay. If you had tried to manually snipe at 10 seconds, your bid probably would not have been recorded.

Was I right? and did you win?

Oh, and Welcome to the forum.

p.s. if that is your real e-mail address I suggest you change your display name or just drop the @ and every thing that follows. Your forum ID and display name does not need to be the same as your AS ID.

You can do that by going to 'MyPop' at the top of the page. Go to the 'Profile Tab' and changing 'Display Name'



[This message was edited by puppy_raiser on December 07, 2003 at 03:34 PM.]

[This message was edited by puppy_raiser on December 07, 2003 at 03:49 PM.]

If this is the auction, then puppy is right:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3569494979

No one bid after you, but someone did bid 8 seconds before you did.

puppy,

I get this error on your last link:
"You have not been given the security rights to access this page."

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That's better.

[This message was edited by Rick on December 07, 2003 at 03:54 PM.]

Thanks Rick. Must be a page you have to be signed in to get to.

I mean signed in as ME to get to. It worked for me, but I guess not for anyone else? I did a copy and paste for the URL.

p.s. Rick is not seeing things, I did an edit.

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Originally posted by puppy_raiser:
p.s. Rick is not seeing things, I did an edit.

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Thanks!

I accidently did that to Mrs. M once. Before I noticed, she had done an edit trying to explain that she wasn't talking to herself.

Rick, ( or anyone else )

If you change your display name, will that change it for all previous posts, or just the ones from now on?

Oh, I guess I could just try it.

Well...the answer is Yes, it does change it for all posts.
BUT not till you do another post.

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Originally posted by puppy_raiser:
If you change your display name, will that change it for all previous posts

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Yes. Does them all.

Yep, I did change mine a while back. I worried about it, not knowing, but finally went for it and there the old name went and here the new name is!

Hi Mrs. M

I trust everything is OK?

I noticed that threads like this are the most common, don't you guys get sick of answering the same questions? Maybe there should be a FAQ sticky.

I will suggest it.