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Hi,

I need some help please.

Today I enrolled in the snipping system, supplied all the requested information and got to the "my snipping" screen. Using one of my 3 free trial snips, I entered a snip bid about an hour before the closing time of an ebay item I had been waiting on for several days.

The snip program took my data and it said "ready". I had it set up with the standard 5 seconds-before-the-end bid time.

I came back to the snipping page after the auction ended and the item's status was still showing "ready" even though the ebay aution was over. Worse, even though my max bid ($82) was well above the winning amount ($76), I did not win nor did my name show up on the bidder list.

The item was still showing on my "ready" page, but had dropped to the bottom of the list of other items I had also set for snipping. (I just went back and checked it again, and it's in the same place but now it's status is "unknown". Yeah, I can agree with that...)

What happened? What's it waiting for? I would appreciate any help.

- Ron Mad
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I have used the 5 second default since I began with AS and have never had a problem... until now.

I think that the glitches that happened to you were all part of this big changeover/system update they started doing in the last couple weeks. There were some real problems this weekend.

Hopefully when they get all the bugs worked out it will be back up and running as stable and reliable as it always was before.

You really did just come in at a bad time; this site was the best kept secret on the net and my favorite site (until just a couple weeks ago). Everything worked perfectly. I told several friends (very selective) about it and they all loved it. I just hope they can restore the ship to her former glory.
5 seconds should be enough. eBay has semi frequent periods where it takes 1-2 seconds to reply. And only very sporadic periods where it takes 10-15 seconds. Not much in between which is weird. So 5 seconds makes just about all bids safe except for the sporadic spurts where it takes 10-15 seconds which happens a few times a day. I think like about 5 times a day. So divide that by 60 minutes * 24 hours since we measure their response time once a minute.

5/1440 = .003 % of the time. So that's 99.7% of the time that 5 seconds ought to be enough.

Thanks

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