Snipe - Did Not Win

Could you post your auction # ? It would be helpful.

And, welcome to our forum!

OHHH That just annoy's me... I knew you would need the auction number... I had copied it to my clipboard..then did not paste it.

Oh well, it is 8162367060

I did not win an auction tonight My snipe bid was well above the winning bid and was scheduled 4 seconds before auction end. It appears everything stopped at the Ebay bid confirmation window. What happened??

Same thing just happened to me!!
I just lost an auction and Im very upset about it!!!!!!!!
What is going on?????

Send your auction # and explain what happened to : http://support.auctionsniper.com/

I know yesterday I was having a terrible time with a listing on Ebay so maybe there is still a problem at Ebay!

I just lost one and my snipe was 200.00 above the winner. Item 35745422510

Thanks, already did that but still it won't make me win the auction.
My bid wasn't even placed and another buyer managed to snipe it with a 20 sec lead while mine was set to 5 and way above the winning bid.

Happened to me three times tonight:

auction 4960691104, 4961717295, 4961715965

Fooh!

Add me to the list of loosers...

auction 3953863601

Me, too. What's going on? Did Ebay block it? Auction #5745427757. Very disappointed. Don't know if another one will be coming up for auction. Ouch!!

Me too - lost 2 auctions which had no bids!
and one where I would have been the highest bidder!


Items:

4351639896
4351640193
6737575350

Christi, I may know what happened. Twice I have lost bids on baby / infant items. I don't know for sure on the first, but on the second lost item (which just happened), eBay is posting a safety warning about recalled items. Following eBay's reference to CPSC, it says "by clicking here". The word "here" contains a link to the CPSC screen. Below this information is eBay's usual item title, your max bid amount, etc. followed by the confirm bid box which must be clicked to complete the bid. Until Auction Sniper proves otherwise, I think the Auction Sniper bid is taking the path following the "here" for safety (which would explain why my bid has died for two different auctions). Were any of the other "non bid complaints" for baby items?
Until I know otherwise, I will always make at least one bid to see if this CPSC screen comes up. When it does, I will plan to place my bids myself. However, I may "test" Auction Sniper and also use it. Then if I have only placed one bid, I will know that Auction Sniper failed me, but I won anyway...
Is my explanation clear?

Cammie - thanks for the explanation. Two of my auctions for for a set of sheets so I am not sure that's the case for all of these failures.

rubygirl said:
I did not win an auction tonight My snipe bid was well above the winning bid and was scheduled 4 seconds before auction end. It appears everything stopped at the Ebay bid confirmation window. What happened??[/QUOTE]

I have learned that you should allow at least 9 seconds before the auction closes. I used to use 6 seconds, and then started missing bids. Somewhere in the documentation we are warned not to cut it too close.

R A T S ! ! !R A T S ! ! ! Add me to the list. My snipe was never placed and it was well above the winning bid. There were only 3 bidders and I had a 7 minute lead time. This is the first failure for me and I have successfully used Auction Sniper many many times. The auction number was #6506394130 on
1-25-05.

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Originally posted by good shopper:
Cammie - thanks for the explanation. Two of my auctions for for a set of sheets so I am not sure that's the case for all of these failures.

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How must time did you allow?

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Originally posted by DipPenMan:
R A T S ! ! !_R A T S ! ! !_ Add me to the list. My snipe was never placed and it was well above the winning bid. There were only 3 bidders and I had a 7 minute lead time. This is the first failure for me and I have successfully used Auction Sniper many many times. The auction number was #6506394130 on
1-25-05.

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Was your lead time 7 minutes or 7 seconds? If 7 seconds, that was the problem (unfortunately).

I was buying a computer. I just manually bid another one and it went through 3 confirmation screens

eBay has again made some changes and we are aware of them and have been working on them. We hope to have them resolved shortly. Please in the meantime place all your snipes manually as we can not be certain all snipes are being placed.

Okay...I lost a one of a kind item even though I had the auction sniper set at least 3 days ago and was $0 above the winning bid. What gives?

correction, that is I was $40 above the winning bid. DAMN ...I just realized what the abbreviation for Auction Sniper Support was.

Did it ($0) match the winning bid? If so, the winning bid got there first. How much time did you allow before the close of the auction?

I just won a manually placed snipe and you are trying to bill me for the snipe #5745422510

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Sniper Sara B. "eBay has again made some changes and we are aware of them and have been working on them."

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If you knew about the changes why did the system accept our snipes??
We should have been told earlier to place the snipes manually.

Please review the "News and Updates" forum on our boards.

The specific post:
https://community.auctionsniper.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=84260069&f=975608021&m=663103248&r=828103248#828103248

As of 9:30pm we should be processing the "Confirm Bid" page that eBay released today and all your snipes should be fine from here on out.

-Kevin

Same thing happened to me twice tonight, failed to complete the bid confirmation. Maybe eBay has decided to throw in a hitch to reduce the use of Auction Sniper or something, Ha! Maybe just an Auction Sniper problem. Sheesh... I really like Auction Sniper to use while I'm at work, away from the computer. It would suck to have to manually snipe. Lets hope the problem gets straightened out very quickly!

I meant seven second lead time........which has heretofore been sufficient. With only two other bids, that should work fine.

When my bid failed and I had been using 6 seconds, I checked with Auction Sniper, which is why I finally made my lead time 9 seconds. (5 seconds plus the 4 additioinal suggested during peak hours is why I chose 9 seconds). Interesting disclaimer on internet traffic...

Auction Sniper says:
64. What is the ideal lead time to use for a snipe?

Lead time is the number of seconds from the end of an auction that you would like AuctionSniper to bid for you. We recommend lead times between 5 and 10 seconds, although we've seen times as low as 2 and 3 seconds work just fine. Currently, Auction Sniper successfully places 99.9% of all snipes with 5 second lead times.

We don't recommend anything less than 5 seconds Although we send the snipe on time, during peak times an eBay server may not process it in time. This is not the fault of eBay or us; internet traffic is just heavier at certain times. And during peak periods, you might consider adding 2-4 seconds more since their servers seem to be taking quite a hit during that time (5-10 p.m. PST), and on weekends.

IM so mad right now. AS missed two of my auctions that I had my max above.
Status Summary: Did Not Win
Your snipe did not win because of the reason above
Click here to see eBay's response to your snipe
Item # 5159996309
Item # 5158880135

Just sad it had to mess up today..