edited to stop snipe; system bid anyway!

You don't say at what point in the auction you tried to negate your bid by resetting it to $0. If it was in the last two minutes of the auction you were too late because your bid had been queued up by AS and nothing could be changed at that point. You couldn't have cancelled, either. Which brings me to ask, "Why didn't you try to cancel instead of resetting the bid amount to $0?"

i just tried to edit a snipe, to raise the amount from $40 to $50. there was 1 minute 55 seconds when i started trying to change my snipe. it would not let me. i canceled the snipe, and re sniped it at $50. it did not let me change, or cancel. it kept my snipe as ready, and NEVER bid. my ending result was losing a bid on a $276 tool , by trying to snipe it. AS response is, "did not win". no snipe was placed, and i lost. this is the first time i have had a problem with AS, but i feel it won't be the last...

You cant edit or delete a snipe in the final 2 minutes. It's already been loaded by all our computers that place the snipes in multiple locations around the country.

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I edited a snipe, to reflect $0 max

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1.) impossible. We dont let you enter snipes lower than the minimum bid.
2.) why didn't you just delete the snipe?

It's fairly obvious the snipe was not edited, couldn't be changed because it was in the final minutes of the auction, or you had 2 snipes on the item which we used to allow but not longer allow.

If you changed your snipe to $0 we would have bid $0 but as I said we dont even allow non valid bids to be entered.

then why wasn't my snipe placed at $40? i got the message "did not win". no ebay confirmation that a bid was even attemped. i lost a great tool...

I tried this service for the first time and lost as a result!!! I would'vre won had ai done it manually. This stinks!!!!!!!! I was never given any rules to read how your servise will not let us change bid in the last two minutes. Whats the point? Several bidders came out in the last 2 minutse and I couldn't beat them
I tied as i couldn't get a second manual bid in fast enough.
Caleb

The stuff is all in the FAQ (press HELP). The FAQ is about the most detailed info the site has.

However, in general you don't want to be using A/S by changing the snipe you've configed close to the end of the auction. Put your maximum bid in the snipe to begin with and set and forget it. Your really not "sniping" at all the way you're doing it, you're just doing the same old last minute nibbling that is one of the reasons many of us went to sniping to begin with.

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Originally posted by Sniper Sara B.:
You cant edit or delete a snipe in the final 2 minutes. It's already been loaded by all our computers that place the snipes in multiple locations around the country.

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The answer in the FAQ is:
When can I add, modify, or cancel a snipe?

You can add, modify, or cancel a snipe as long as there is at least 3 minutes left until the auction ends. When the auction is about to end, you may notice that a lock will replace the Cancel and Modify links. In the event that you have not refreshed the page, and the Cancel and Modify links still exist for a snipe that is ending in less than 3 minutes, any changes made will be disregarded. For reliability and performance, our bidding system prepares snipes a minute in advance and so you must make your changes before this time.

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What is that lock next to my snipe? Why can’t I cancel?

The lock is there, beginning the last 90 seconds of the auction because we can't alter a bid during that time.



On the Product page it reads:

Cancel your bid.
When you bid directly though eBay, it is generally difficult to cancel your bid. With Auction Sniper, you can cancel your bid up to 1 minute before our servers place it for you. So you are buying time to think about your bid and make sure it's what you intend.

1 minute, 90 seconds, 3 minutes. I could not find anything that specifically said 2 minutes.

It would help is all the answers were the same.

For what it is worth...

my experience has always been the last 2 mins of an auction you are blocked from editing / canceling a bid.

Just as others have said I think that people are not using the program correctly -- What I've had to tell myself is that when I am looking to snipe a product from ebay it isn't "real" until I win it It is kind of like window shopping... I don't get my hopes and expectations up on any of my bids. I think that is what makes a successful sniper. It is all about strategy...all of us have our own strategies... but I can't tell you because if I did I'd have to kill ya

Never underestimate the power of the snipe.

~Sniper Goddess~

As I recall, the last thing Sara B. said about cancelling a snipe was that the snipes are queued up 2 minutes in advance of auction close and cannot be cancelled after that time. If something else says 1 minute is possible then perhaps it should be corrected to conform with the latest information.

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I tried this service for the first time and lost as a result!!! I would'vre won had ai done it manually. This stinks!!!!!!!! I was never given any rules to read how your servise will not let us change bid in the last two minutes. Whats the point? Several bidders came out in the last 2 minutse and I couldn't beat them
I tied as i couldn't get a second manual bid in fast enough.

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I guess from the bad spelling that you're pretty worked up over this!

Seems you tried to use AS without understanding how it works. In simple terms, set up AS with the highest bid you'll go up to and then walk away. If you win - great, if you don't then it was too expensive anyway.

If you feel you have to up the anti just before the end [be it 3 mins, 2 mins or 5 seconds from the end] then either you have not put in the highest amount you'll go up to or you have failed to understand how AS works.
If the item is that important to you then bid high.

HTH

I'm new to AS and you have to know how to use this program in order for it to work. I'll find out quickly if my reasons for using this will help me out.

When you bid big money on the first day of an auction you're bringing attention to that auction by bidding on it. You're also inviting the people that place bids at $1.00 until they get to their max price or over your bid, to cause you to have to watch the auction at all times.

Know what you want, what you're buying and the max price you're willing to pay for it and leave it at that. If you HAVE to have that item, let eBay rule your life for that day. Also if you're a collector...this keeps your competition from jetting up your buy price out of jealousy, or spite.

Here's something I learned from my father...something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

Of course, I've only been on here for 2 days, but I won't be missing any more parties or dinners because I have to wait at home for an auction to end. Time will tell.

Good luck & happy sniping!

AS works great. I've been manually sniping eBay for almost 5 years. I've only lost a couple of times and then it was simply because I wasn't willing to pay as much as someone else.

I've used AS twice as insurance when I couldn't be online to manage a manual snipe. It's worked perfectly both times.

A snipe job is won or lost in the planning... hours or even days before the auction end. If you have to edit your snipe in the last 2 minutes you need to learn to snipe properly and shouldn't blame the software for your inadequacy.

"Do or do not. There is no try."

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Originally posted by HawkEye:
AS works great. I've been manually sniping eBay for almost 5 years. I've only lost a couple of times and then it was simply because I wasn't willing to pay as much as someone else.

I've used AS twice as insurance when I couldn't be online to manage a manual snipe. It's worked perfectly both times.

A snipe job is won or lost in the planning... hours or even days before the auction end. If you have to edit your snipe in the last 2 minutes you need to learn to snipe properly and shouldn't blame the software for your inadequacy.

"Do or do not. There is no try."

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I am still waiting (5 days after requesting an explanation) to find out why my snipe, which was over $20 more than the winning bid, wasn't place. I too got a "did not win" message on the "my snipes", yet when I requested an explanation, silence.

I certainly don't mind losing to higher bidders, but when the service I've contracted fails to do its job, I get angry. I work for a living, and can't sit monitoring my auctions during the work day, so I can't place a bid manually at the last second.

On one of the other threads, Sarah from support made a comment to a first-time user whose first snipe failed to go through: it may not happen for another 100 snipes. Hmmmm. The description of the siping process said 99.9% of 5-second lead time snipes go through. Using Sarah's figures, 2 failures out of 101 snipes, the failure rate is not 0.1%, but 1.98%, nearly 20 times greater than claimed.

It is very noticeable that a great majority of the complaints we see on here about snipes not being placed or losing, when investigated, turn out to have been the fault of the person using the software, doing something they shouldn't or not doing something they should, usually because they don't understand, or haven't read the FAQs.


Lead, Follow or get out of the way!

You're right Jude - I guess that "Not Satisfied" hasn't bothered to read the notes that tell the new AS user of the risks or any other of the feedbacks relating to exactly the same 'problem'.

Yet again, please can I ask that AS set up a forum where people whose bids didn't get placed can whinge and moan. AS could put up highlighted messages at the top for them to read that explain the risks. Perhaps they will get read

I for one am bored of reading these hackneyed emails - I'm not suprised AS don't bother replying to them...

Plus, they come in with an attitude and then expect instant replies. I'm not going to respond to anybody like that, and I don't think AS support much wants to either. Maybe AS should use the same tone in responding.

I've only ever lost one snipe due to it not being placed that is the minor cost of using the benefits of AS. The fact is that, if AS fails to place the snipe, there is a fair likelyhood that a manual snipe would fail anyway due to the same reasons (net congestion etc.). People who want to alter their snipe in the last minutes of an auction have missed the point which is to set for your highest bid in the first place, the proxy system ensures you don't pay too much. My only complaint with AS is that I think if your snipe is not placed and you had a delay of at least 5 secs you should AUTOMATICALLY get snipe credits you shouldn't need to ask