need a quick helping hand

5 seconds should be fine. Make it 7 or 8 if you want to be extra safe, but 5 should be fine.

I'm curious about what the AS program does when, for whatever reason, ebay returns an error for an AS placed bid. Does it just dutifully record the error message and stop bidding, or does it realize the bid hasn't gone thru successfully AND try to BID AGAIN (provided there is still time left in the auction)??

If the program TRIES to do the latter, might not a little longer lead times be a good strategy to allow for the occasional times ebay messes up in accepting bids??

Your thoughts on this matter are welcomed!

Jabbergah

It doesnt retry. Usually there wouldnt be enough time left, and we did place the snipe at least 3-4 times so one of those would have gone through. If all of them failed eBay is probably having some trouble.