Incorrect End Time being displayed...

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Originally posted by Duncan:
Is this just a display issue or will it affect the time when AuctionSniper places a bid?

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I think if I were in your shoes, and if I was going to be around, and if it’s an important item, I’d probably do a manual snipe. Some clock got messed up yesterday, and the problem you are seeing could be a fall out.
>> here <<

Don’t know if this will help, but I can’t believe it will hurt: try clicking on “Update Prices” on “My Snipes” page. Maybe that will reset the end time.

All of my snipes for the next 3 hours have JUST gone bad!!. The end time was right half an hour ago, now it shows

352d 17h 11m 56s

I am going to bid manually for now I think. I would advise all other users to as well until AS get this clock sorted.

I have just done a test snipe on a cheap item and that worked fine - perhaps it is just a display problem after all.

try cancelling and resubmitting the snipe(s) that's broken.

R2

Resubmitting doesn't work... It was saying an auction of mine was going to end an hour earlier then what ebay really said. Luckily I caught it in time and cancelled the snipe..

Perhaps my problem is similar. My clock displays a normal & accurate countdown under the "ends" column up until a few hours before the snipe. Then it displays only a negative value between 10 and 50 seconds. Refreshing, punching the "update prices" or modifying the snipe all have no effect.

e.g. right now for an item ending in 30 minutes it shows "-46s undefined" in the "ends" column.

I'm not sure if the snipes are going through, but I'm going to do them manually I suppose. I really can't risk it on these.

Haven't had any problems with reliability so far on this site in the last 6 months, I remember some missed snipes a while ago but that was due to a really short delay time.

I lost auctions because the clock was out and got a very un helpful reply
It would have been nice to get free snipes for all the messing around i have incurred.
we will see.........

all auctions are sniping fine. I'm not sure why some people are seeing the 352 day thing, that's really wierd. We're trying to figure that out though.

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Originally posted by Sniper Sara B.:
all auctions are sniping fine. I'm not sure why some people are seeing the 352 day thing, that's really wierd. We're trying to figure that out though.

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Thanks for the reply. I have one ending tonight, so I'll check then it if still displays random negative numbers from a few hours before the end on up. Am I the only one who has this problem?

I actually think this is still somewhat of a problem for anyone not viewing the US (english) version of the site. I've noticed the time being off by up to 24 hours.

HOWEVER, some people seem to think that the time countdown in the browser has to do with when the snipe is placed. It doesn't. It is just a nice little graphical countdown of the time, nothing more. Even if it is off by 300 days, the snipe will still get placed when it should.

So there isn't any need to "manually" snipe an item just because your browser says it is 300 days to ending. All that means is that the html countdown code is still broken.

Donovan J., you are right on!

BTW I'm viewing the US / english version of the site. If it's just a display problem, a quick fix would be nice.

Still broken.

UK version broken - switching to USA version - works fine. Try that!

R2