Just missed a bid due to the timer being off by 1 minute

I had one tonight that AS bid early by 42 seconds. I was set with an 8 second lead, so it was 34 seconds early. I just got lucky that the other bidders didn't bid or it would have cost me more. There have been others with 20-60 seconds also.

I'm not going to bother with posting item#'s. This is a common problem with AS so why bother.

-al

I am a brand new "sniper."

I had an item I REALLY wanted to win, and was fearful of trusting AS. I was going to cancel and bid the old fashioned way, and then changed my mind.

A few minutes before the bid I was looking thru the community forum and saw an email similar to yours - AS failed, unsuccessful bid that would have won. I kind of panicked and decided to pull the plug on AS. But it was too late (under 10 minutes). Fearfully, I waited to see what would happen.

Well, AS came through for me. I won the item for well under half what I was willing to pay.

I'm not dissing your story, but I just wanted to share that AS worked very well for me on its maiden voyage.

Newbie sniper here...

I had severe reservations and was quite nervous about using AS.
I won my first auction, but it also was 42 seconds early. I had a 5 second lead time set and was surprised to see that I was the high bidder so early.

Happy that I won, but not sure what to do with the faulty lead time- my bidding seemed to trigger additional bidding by the next highest bidder. No one else had jumped in.