Early snipe cost me money!

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I am going to have to go back to placing manual bids for auctions that are important to me, and only use AuctionSnipe for auctions where I am not near a computer. Sad about this but it's utterly horrible watching my bid go in so early then seeing other people successfully snipe at six seconds before end. AuctionSnipe's motto emphasizes "at the last moment," but now even my 90-year-old grandmother can manually outbid AuctionSnipe.

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I totally understand the rational behind your manual sniping and using AS. Many will tell you that if AS couldnt get the snipe in at 6 seconds, then you wont be able to. I am guessing that you have enough experience to know whether you can or cant.

I use a similar practice myself. I will manual bid on things I *reaaallly* want, but I still AS for convenience

Good Luck

PS.. My 90yr old Grandma couldnt even turn a computer on, but I am sure if I told her when and how to push the *place bid* button - she'd give it a fair crack

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My snipes have been placed at between 19 and 30 seconds prior to auction's close

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I reviewed your last 44 snipes over the past month. Not even one was placed at 19 or more seconds. In fact here they are:

8, 7, 16, 7, 10, 7, 7, 8, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 5, 7, 8, 7, 18, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 4, 8.

That's 44 snipes going back 30 days through Sept 26th. None of the 44 cost you any money. The 3 over 10 seconds were all at peak times 6:45pm, 7pm, and 7:30pm. All 3 won, and none of the 3 cost you any money.

You're a great customer and we'd love to keep you, but your expectations might need a little tuning. You've done a ton of snipes with us and we've done a great job of getting them in safely and making sure you win.

I'm sure sometime maybe we got one in early but that's the expection and that only happens when we detect problems with eBay and adjust your snipe to ensure it gets in at all. I mean if we didnt do that and then you missed we'd be hearing about how we stink and we shoulda adjusted for you and so on and so forth. We're 100% over the past 30 days at getting your snipes in at reasonable times and not once did you get outbid because of us in that time.

I think we do a pretty good job overall, how about some kudos for us for the 44 snipes you won that we placed for you rain or shine, day or night, 24/7/365 in the last month. We were johnny on the spot for you this past month. Everybody in da house say 'Hell ya!'

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but now even my 90-year-old grandmother can manually outbid AuctionSnipe.

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Sadly not true - it seems you really are grabbing the un-clean end of the stick!

R2