My Snipes status

Dag,

The closer the auction close, the quicker AS sends you an email.

NO? YES?

hmmmm can't say... haven't run enuf snipes yet. I do remember getting one, I think my first day.

Two end in about 20 hrs and show status ready.

Dag

I got my "you've been outbid emails" this evening, and my status changed to red "ready." I do wish I could get that notice more than a fews hours in advance, however. It's nice to see the "red" flag in plenty of time to rethink my MAX, if necessary.

diva (aka Dag)

I haven't been using AS as much as I'd like to lately, because I've yet to receive emails saying my current snipe is too low. I never find out until after the auction finishes, or if I happen to be checking my account - which I can't do constantly.
I've two set up at the moment and hope that the amounts I've set are sufficient to win the auctions while I'm at work, or that I'm emailed with enough advance warning to change it.
Sometimes I'm tempted to actually bid manually, but then what was the point of signing up with AS, lol!

Sorry to ramble.

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star-mystyk posted: "I've two set up at the moment and hope that the amounts I've set are sufficient to win the auctions while I'm at work, or that I'm emailed with enough advance warning to change it."

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star-mystyk...instead of waiting for a 'warning email' to consider raising your max bid, you should consider how much you can afford (or are willing) to pay for the item ahead of time and just place your absolute max bid on your snipe.

AS will only bid as high as is necessary to win the auction and it will only go to your max if somebody else bids high as well.

And, of course, if you still lose it, because your bid wasn't high enough, you'll know that you could not have gone any higher anyway.

There's nothing worse than two feelings in the world of bidding/sniping:

a) Not placing as high of a bid as you would have been willing to pay...and losing.

and/or:

b) Bidding way more than you could really afford and winning.

I place my max bid on every auction I want to win and don't even care about warning emails. If I win, I win (which I usually do...and many times for well below my max) and if I lose, I lose...but I know that I put my max possible bid out there and I either win, or somebody else just wanted it more than I did, or could just afford to spend a little more.

Good luck and happy sniping!

WarriorNun

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"

Set your TRUE max. Outbid notices are irrelevant to me. It simply means that I have already lost the auction. And that does not happen often.

I guess that's common sense, hey? lol!

Both my maximum snipe amounts have been placed, although I'll still be rather annoyed if I don't win them. But, that's life!