yesterday i signed up for the 3 free snipes with AS. everything showed "ready". this morning i have an email from AS on the first item i wanted sniped, and it didn't even bid for me. my high bid was a lot higher than the winning bid. when i placed my max. bid with AS, i didn't pay attention to the bid increments; does that matter? also, i did NOT bid on ebay b/c i thought AS was supposed to do that for me just before the auction ends so that i'm not starting a bidding war, contributing to a bidding war, or bidding against myself. i'm so confused. the status email i got from AS this morning on the item i wanted sniped last night has no status on it, and no link to this website. when i checked the status of the item on AS, it said "unknown". what the heck does that mean? i know what the status is - i lost the auction for reasons i don't understand. is this system complicated or am i dense? longing to know ...... pattie
pattie woodard
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If you go to that particular auction page, and the seller did withdraw/close the auction...it will say that..usually around/under the title...It's happened to me.. 
I think this is what happened.......About 1/2 hr before the close of the auction,someone bid 13.00...I had put in a snipe earlier for 13.49....the bid increment was .50 and because the other bidder had went .01 over the previous increment bid of ex: 10.49..Didn't make a bid using exactly the bid increment amount,then my sniper bid was NO GOOD !!The bid increment was still in effect at the time AS would have placed my bid....but because the latest(and the winning bid) was 13.00 and mine was 13.49,AS couldn't bid for me...Lesson learned 
don't always bid by exactly the bid increment amt.....Carol.....