I outbid myself !!

Just wanted to say OUCH!!!!

I dont know enough about A/S so I cant offer anything else but I am sure trusty ole Steve will come along with some words of wisdom

I'm really hoping to hear an answer from someone at AS who can explain this.
Thanks
~Joanna~

"Trusty ole Steve" doesn't have an explanation for this one, only the observation that the "removed" snipe obviously wasn't removed. I agree with you that someone at AS who has access to the bidding history of both your accounts will have to take a look-see.

And I second the motion on "OUCH!"

Snipes cant be deleted within 3 minutes of the end of the auction. So if you did it then it wont work.

Other than that the snipe wasnt deleted. We simply dont snipe canceled snipes. If we did there would be hundreds of people in here a day and you'd know about it.

Yep, I just checked and there snipes in both accounts. Delete snipes dont show up in the list, even if you won. Otherwise if they did people that canceled a snipe on an item they had already bid on directly on eBay and they won would be charged and a lot of other things.

I would contact the seller and explain the situation and offer to still purchase the item at the highest winning bid you would have won at. If they dont accept that offer then I'd take a negative and just not pay. Nobody should expect you to pay $190 for an honest mistake.

[This message was edited by Sniper Sara B. on July 30, 2003 at 10:16 AM.]

I strongly disagree with Sara at AS. Although I think AS is a great buyers tool, we all use it to save money on our purchases. There was certainly no fault on the part of the seller and he or she deserves the high bid price. If there was any fault or culpability it was with the buyer and/or AS. It would be unfair to use a great tool like AS to save tons of money, then cry "Foul" when something goes wrong with the snipe and ends up costing you money. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.

But no harm in asking the seller for a break. And I'd like to know how this problem got resolved.

Tim

Tim, apparently joanna tried to cancel one of the snipes with 3 minutes or less left in the auction. I don't know this for certain but since the snipe wasn't canceled I'm assuming that's why -- snipes can't be changed or canceled that close to the end of an auction. Otherwise, the cancellation would have taken effect. I don't read joanna as crying "foul"; she made a good-faith effort to extricate herself from a problem situation and wanted to know why the effort wasn't successful. Nothing wrong with that.

Legally, she owes the entire sum to the seller. As a practical matter, an appeal to the seller might very well prove helpful. It's up to joanna as to whether to make such an appeal and whether to tell us if it was successful.

I'm a new sniper and a fan of sniping...but there are anti-snipers out there who would laugh til they puked if they read this one.