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More confused . . .

G Guest
The more I think about this, the more confused I become.

I was following an item and prepared a "snipe" for 8 seconds before the ending time. I watched until about 19:00 PT. At that time, my bid had not been reached. When I woke up this morning and checked eBay, the "winner's" bid had been placed ad 13:22:56 PT and was $.50 higher than my bid, which would have been posted at 23:36:51 but couldn't be because it wasn't high enough. If someone "snipes" at 13:22:56, shouldn't I have seen it at 19:00? I'm confident that I continually updated so that I would know the current bid before I went to sleep -- I'm on the east coast. Is there anything I may have missed?

Judy
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S Steve (Guest)
Judy, AS doesn't update bids on its own initiative very often -- I think once or twice a day if the AS servers aren't too busy, or at any time an AS sniper signs in. It will also update any time an AS sniper clicks on "Update item info". Here's the catch: have you ever been searching on eBay and noticed a little disclaimer they put in there about "bid amounts shown are not necessarily current"? Well, guess what? AS relies on eBay's bid amounts of record, so if you click on "Update item info" AS dutifully goes to eBay to get the latest bid information -- which is "not necessarily current". See what can happen? Roll Eyes
J judyandstu (Guest)
<< AS dutifully goes to eBay to get the latest bid information -- which is "not necessarily current". See what can happen? >>

Could it be hours off? If so . . . what's the best way to handle this? Even if you were to be sitting in front of your computer at the conclusion of bidding, you might not really have updated information????????????? Does it sometimes just become a real "crap shoot"?

Again, this is all new to me . . .

Judy
J judyandstu (Guest)
(I hope this isn't a duplicate. My first reply hasn't shown up.)

<< AS dutifully goes to eBay to get the latest bid information -- which is "not necessarily current". See what can happen? >>

Could it be hours off? If so . . . what's the best way to handle this? Even if you were to be sitting in front of your computer at the conclusion of bidding, you might not really have updated information????????????? Does it sometimes just become a real "crap shoot"?

Again, this is all new to me . . .

Judy
S Steve (Guest)
I don't have any concrete statistics, Judy, but I doubt that it could ever be hours off unless eBay crashed completely (which does happen, but rarely). Once in a while a few seconds, a minute, two minutes...not very much, but certainly more than enough to throw off a sniper's timing. Let's just say that the great majority of the time the eBay clock is right on the button. I was only pointing out what might happen.
TO "The other Steve" (Guest)
Even if eBay is behind in posting bids - there is nothing any tool could do about that, even if you were sitting on eBay waiting to place a manual snipe, if eBay hasn't posted the latest bid, you won't see it.

It's still better to let a tool do it than trying to do it manually.
R Rick (Guest)
I'm going out on a limb here. I'll probably get some hate mail for this, but it won't be the first time. Looking at these prior posts, I'm thinking Judy didn't click on "update items info". It's the "almost" in 'I'm almost positive that I clicked on "update"', that has me a little anxious. I'm suggesting that Judy either clicked on "refresh", or didn't click on "update items info". I have updated the current prices many time, like the rest of you, and have never had a problem.

So Judy, are you absolutely, or almost, positive you clicked on "update items info"?
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J judyandstu (Guest)
Well, I believe in the "never say 'never'" theory. And I'd be the first to say that that's the only logical explanation.

But I could have *sworn* that I "updated" before I turned off my computer!

I'll let you know what happens tonight . . . when my "snipe" goes in for a duplicate item. Smile

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