Is lead time accurate ???

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After sadly loosing an auction with a lead time of 12 seconds because AS didn't get my bid placed in time, I changed my lead time to 21 seconds. Later,I was watching an auction during its last minute of bidding and I kept refreshing the eBay screen to see how it was going, and suddenly saw that I was high bidder and there were STILL 34(!) seconds left in the bidding. AS had placed my bid AT LEAST 13 seconds EARLIER than I had instructed. . .ample time for a good bidder to trump my bid. This was the actual time posted on eBay's own screen. I still won the auction, but now I wonder how accurate AS lead times are. . .especially since AS previously failed to get a bid in for me with a 12 second lead time.

7/18/028:27 PM

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snipersarabAuctionSniper Support

The only time we'd do that is if eBays servers are running slow. We monitor how long it is taking them to accept bids. If they are running slowly we put in the bids that much in advance.

If their servers then speed back up your bid goes in early. In this case they were probably running about 12 seconds slow so we did your bid 12 seconds earlier. Then they speed back up.

The alternative is to always place bids expactly when we are told and to miss snipes when eBay slows down. If eBay were 12 seconds slow any snipe of 12 seconds or less would be missed. I think most users would prefer to sometimes have a snipe placed a little earlier than to probably have their snipe not placed in time and to miss the bid.

Thank you

7/19/0210:42 AM

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