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grandma moses could snipe more accurately

K kildesMember
I have been having considerable problems with auctionsniper blowing my snipes by placing them far too early. I set my snipe time at 3 seconds. This morning, auctionsniper placed my bid 18 seconds before the auction closed. 18 seconds. That's not a snipe. Even grandma moses could outbid me in 18 seconds. Other bidders in that auction had no problem outbidding me and placing their bids after mine. I could send my bids in on the back of a turtle and they would get there faster. When this has happened before on AS I have been told that AS senses the ebay traffic and compensates. Well, this appears to be overcompensation. The compensation should result in my bid being placed at 3 seconds ahead of the end of the close of the auction, with perhaps an occasional 1 second variance. Other snipe programs are able to do this. Can someone at AS please describe, in precise terms, the exact sequence of events that occurs prior to AS placement of a snipe, and why my bid was placed 18 seconds early.
Jeff
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S snipersarabAuctionSniper Support
It ended exactly on a quarter hour. Also 10am-1pm Europe prime hours and 5:30pm-8:30pm US prime hours are even busier.

Your 3 bids before that were at 4 seconds, including one that won.

One was blocked by a seller, the dummy. Your bid was for $100 more than the winning bid. Ya those sellers are really bright, snipers are costing them a fortune. LOL.

Anyways I reviewed your pass 44 losses and could not find a case where an early bid cost you a win. Most were bid too low. You win a very high % of your items and it was mostly the lower $ items were you didnt do as well. It seems the value of the photos you bid on are quite subjective. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess and in those losses other people simply bid more. You win about 2/3 of the time which is a pretty good win rate.
L ljlsMember
Don't feel so bad....Auction Sniper placed my bid over 8 MINUTES too early!! I am really steamed about this! Naturally, other bidders saw my bid sitting there and outbid me beyond the max I had put into Sniper! If I hadn't physically jumped in and bid myself in the last few seconds, I would have lost the item! Then, Auction Sniper has the gall to email me and congratulate me that I won the auction..supposedly because of them! HA! I'd have had the item for $56.00 if Auction Sniper had done their job! My max bid in Sniper was $75.99 and it ended up costing me $80 when I had to physically do it myself! I'd have LOVED to have had AS only screw up my bid by 12 seconds earlier than what I ordered which was 6 seconds....but to bid in at over 8 MINUTES??? I could have walked the bid into CA myself...and I live in WY!!!! LOL!
region2region2Member
Kildes

Hmm - you reckon that someone could react in 18 seconds. Nah! As Sarah has said, AS adjusted the snipe so that it would be placed before the end due to a busy time - the other bids almost certainly were automatic snipes by people who believed the item was worth more money than you...

Remember, it's not the last bid that wins, it's the highest bid that wins. I guess you weren't the highest...

LJLS - when was your bid? I'm guessing during AS's maintenance period when it has to bid early rather than miss it altogether. Obviously they should warn you that this is going to happen and the congratulatory email is a pretty poor thing to send in this situation. Click on HELP tab and report the problem - they should refund you the cost if nothing else...

R2
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L letitflyantiquesMember
good dsl , fast computer with no uneccessary junk on it. I bought, without intent just on the floor saleperson's advice, some gold tipped usb cables. They have really increased my speed. But even here on this 7 year old dell with windows 98, i seldom have a problem with a 10 second bid. But I am a fanatic aboutcleaning off spware and everything else.
I think it problem depends on the activity level also on the auction, I bid on obscure things.

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