First Snipe

AS recommends 20 to 25 seconds for auctions ending on the exact hour and half hour. Normally most of us use 8 seconds, but more on Sunday.

AS won't have any problem with German auction.

FYI: There's an faq on the Help tab regarding currencies.

Correction:

There were some discussions (say 6 months ago?) that ebay Germany no longer allowed automated sniping services. I just tried to locate those posts, but was unsuccessful. It seems that some said it did, and some said it didn't.???

If the item is really important, you might want to leave a manual snipe, and have AS also snipe. Your AS snipe should be the next bid increment over your manual snipe, that way you can verify whether ebay Germany accepted it.

Thanks Rick for the advice, I'll try and do both as well as setting lead to 20 secs.

Hopefully someone with actual, and recent, experience sniping on the German site will provide a definite answer to your question.

You might try placing a low snipe on something cheap and that already has a proxy bid as a test. There's a good chance that the snipe won't be high enough, so you won't waste money.

Also, even though you do a manual snipe, AS will probably bill you for their snipe.

I have also looked around and can find nothing on legislation restricting sniping. I still have nothing to lose as i'm using the first of my three free snipes, so i believe i won't be charged even if i do win. All i really have to do is get the maximum bid up there, manually , at a good level and then execute the snipe as insurance.

No, aptitude, you won't be charged for the snipe. Rick, if I recall correctly the German system was to give sellers the option not to honor snipe bids. What the definition of "snipe" was, I don't know. Last ten seconds, probably.

What if Germany disallows a winning AS snipe? Will AS still charge for placing it?

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Originally posted by Steve:
... if I recall correctly the German system was to give sellers the option not to honor snipe bids.

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AP,

If Steve is correct, and he usually is, and if you haven't already done so, check out your "Instamail" option. It's on your "Modify Account" under "My Snipes" page.

If AS wins your snipe, this option controls whether AS will send a notice to the seller telling them you used a sniping service.

Cool - Now thats a blinking good idea ! With Instamail off, this service will be transparent to the seller ?

As transparent as a bid 20 seconds before auction close will permit.