newbie questions!?!?!?

$1000 to $2499.99 - bid increment is $25. Your snipe would need to be $1335 to beat a high bid of $1310.

I'd recommend an 8 second lead time. Lots of users are happy with 5 and less, but if you're sniping something very important, make it 8 or more. Ebay slows up at different times. AS tries to compensate, but they can't always make the correct adjustment. Help them and yourself with longer lead times. For Sunday evenings (prime time) and auctions that end exactly on the hour or half hour (very heavy traffic) you should use longer times. On Sunday evening auctions the members recommend 15 to 30 seconds, and for hour or half hour ending auctions AS recommends 20 to 25 seconds.

"As I understand it, the AS will bid one bid increment above the highest bid with five seconds left in the auction, unless the highest bid at that point is already above my maximum or the proxy bidder is set to go higher than my maximum. Correct?" - Correct

"Also, my AS account says 'ready' next to my auction. Does that mean it's set to go and I don't have to do anything else?" - Yes.

Also, check out "InstaMail" on "Modify Account".

[This message was edited by Rick on May 15, 2003 at 12:11 PM.]

"As I understand it, the AS will bid one bid increment above the highest bid with five seconds left in the auction, unless the highest bid at that point is already above my maximum or the proxy bidder is set to go higher than my maximum. Correct?" Actually, that is partly incorrect.

AS will place a snipe at what ever amount you specify. ebay will determine, based on bid increments, the amount of your actual bid. The rest of what you said was correct, but you sound like you have a handle on it. I think we're saying the same thing.

The auction started at $.01, and the bidding is currently $760.00, so the page says the bid increment is $10.00. Will that increase to $25.00 as soon as the bidding goes above $1,000?

Thanks for helping.

John

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Originally posted by platosforms:
The auction started at $.01, and the bidding is currently $760.00, so the page says the bid increment is $10.00. Will that increase to $25.00 as soon as the bidding goes above $1,000?

Thanks for helping.

John

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Yes, the increment indicator will increase.

Yes.

Once $1000 is reached, the bid increments will be $25 until it reaches $2500. Then the increments are $50.

Hey, good luck, John! Hope you win. Keep us posted, willya?

I will keep you all posted, thanks for your help.

What I really like about AS is that I'm not able to be at my computer when the auction ends but it doesn't matter because AS will take care of it better than I ever could.

Thanks again.

John

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Originally posted by platosforms:
... AS will take care of it better than I ever could.

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John - Don't know if you saw this, but Sniper Sara B. (AS support) posted this on 4/16/03 at 12:17 AM:
"We bid from 3 locations throughout California, all with different backbone connections to eBay."