Ebay Proxy/AS bids

Ebay always fully processes it's proxies so it never runs out of time. AS is a third-party product so must get in before the wire. It's a machine and cannot always work quickly or accurately hence the last statement. nb. In all my time of using AS, it has only not bid for me once - pretty good going I think!

R2

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, I found out what "Never use AS for must have items" means on my own. I matched your failure rate in my first attempt with AS.

My bid was never sent to Ebay due to "Invalid UserID/Pass" error. But, this is totally incorrect. My login/pass do match my Ebay login/pass exactly. So I missed an item that was very important to me.

I should have never trusted AS to do my bidding. I'm waiting for a response from support and will post that here as well.

I got a quick reply from Support. It's not very reassuring to me. They say the issue with Ebay has been resolved, but they admit that the problem was out of their hands. If it is an Ebay problem, AS probably wouldn't be able to verify that any problems were fixed. And, as AS users, we certainly can't verify that the problems were fixed. Obviously, the problem persists for some people. I don't think AS knows how to fix it.

From Support:
I‘m sincerely sorry your bid on this item was unable to be placed successfully. The failure of this snipe was actually caused by a sign-in issue on eBay‘s end, which has since been resolved. We sign into eBay approximately 3 minutes before a snipe is scheduled to be placed, however, during this period, eBay was not accepting our sign-in requests in a timely manner, so we could not place this bid on your behalf.

When we are unable to sign-in to eBay using the log-in information stored within your account, we display the "WARNING - Your stored username or password might be incorrect!" as a reminder to update your eBay sign-in information in the Auction Sniper system. Since your log-in information is correct, even though this message is displayed under several of your active snipes, they should still be placed successfully.

Although this issue was beyond our control, for taking the time to report this problem, I have credited your account with 3 additional free snipes. Auction Sniper provides the most effective and reliable automated bidding service in the industry and, for that reason, we hope you continue to use our service.

Frustrating as it is, you do have to remember that AS is at the mercy of the vagaries of eBay and these problems do happen from time-to-time.

So, lesson learnt, if it's a must-have, DIY. But remember, on ebay nothing is rare anymore so your must-have could re-appear again and again.

R2