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New sniping feature: "Auto bidding range increase"

G Guest
Uhm, well, what I mean is best explained with a real auction:
I had a snipe armed at 8.88 for item 871427135 and I lost to a bid of 8.50 US$. I would like to have an option when I arm a snipe that does the following: In case that by the time the snipe is
a) ready to fire,
b) would be higher than the current high bid
c) but is not enough for the current bid plus bidding increment
then, and only then, increase my snipe-bid by the bidding increment applicable to my current bid.
(I believe <5 =.25; 5<20 =.50; and so forth)

In my case, a) b) and c) are true, and with this option set AS would have autoincreased my bid by .50 US$ to 9.38 US$ and I could have won (given there was no higher proxy bid pending).

It sounds complicated, but I would use it.

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hos lin snip

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B Beaniesaver (Guest)
I'm not sure what you propose is doable but how about a simpler alternative? In other words, do you really want/expect AS to take responsibility for increasing a limit you've set? But it would seem to be relatively simple to have an email sent when my snipe limit either is exceeded or is not sufficient to meet the next bid increment. Would seem a few lines of code to do a subtraction based on this would be easy to do. Adam? Is this doable?
M mish (Guest)
I do get sent warning emails when AS sees my snipe limit is too low. However, for them to be sent in real time would mean AS having to check everyone's snipes every second. This is impractical. I expect they check periodically.

Hos Lin Snip - you just have to accept that with sniping, you get one shot at it. There is no time to come back with a higher bid. If it turns out your bid was too low, you have to feel the frustration that other lowballers out there have when we snipe them! Wink

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