I wish people would stop assuming that I am criticising AS.
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If you read where I stated that I wanted to understand how and why all these snipes were not placed at the times I set, then we might not be taking this so personally.
I understand busy times....it is not Xmas, it is August. It was not a Sunday night.....in the US, the UK or here in Australia, it was in fact a Thursday.
In all but 2 examples (there were others that night) I had the highest bid. I won - YAY! Or I lost as I was oubid by proxy. The "early" snipes were irrelevant. I am only referring to the auction I lost # 5511099259....not the one where I was outbid by proxy (yes, I know that it would not have mattered when the bid was placed, but then, that was there for illustration purposes only, as were the others).
In the other case, (it was helpfully noted that this was the one where I was outbid) someone had the time to outbid me, probably manually. Strangely, the 2 seconds AS added is exactly the lead time that the other bid was entered. HMMM......If my snipe was placed when set, then he likely misses out.
I come back to my question, when there is some competition, do I set the lead time very low to stop someone being able to snipe me (manually or not)?