for the second time recently auction sniper has placed my bid 5 seconds too early(10 secs instead of 5) any reason why? is it a technical hitch???
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AS monitors the speed with which eBay processes incoming bids and adjusts snipe times accordingly when eBay is running behind, since the potential alternative is your bid not being registered in time by eBay. This is probably what happened with your snipes. I sniped one today where the bid went in at 12 seconds instead of the 8 I had programmed for. I still won.
What Steve said is correct. The auctions we sniped immediately prior to yours took eBay 5 seconds to accept. Thus our system automatically compensates and places yours 5 seconds earlier to make up for that.
Then what happened is eBay sped back up to normal so the bids went in 5 seconds early. The thing is, there is no way to tell when or if they'll speed up or down so it's all we can do.
Thank you
Then what happened is eBay sped back up to normal so the bids went in 5 seconds early. The thing is, there is no way to tell when or if they'll speed up or down so it's all we can do.
Thank you
remember the only thing a snipe does is stop a reaction to your bid. Unless there's some new software out there that i don't know about, it takes about 30 seconds to fill in the windows and react to a bid. If they bid after you it's beause they decided when to place their bid without regard to you placing yours.
You said "it takes about 30 seconds to fill in the windows and react to a bid".
Actually what I and many others do when manually sniping is to have one or more bid widos ready filled out and the password entered, and then I keep refreshing the "bid history" page. That way I could probably react, with a bit of luck, to a 10 second snipe. I'd probably fail a five second snipe. A 30-second snipe would be easy! AS is easier still.
Actually what I and many others do when manually sniping is to have one or more bid widos ready filled out and the password entered, and then I keep refreshing the "bid history" page. That way I could probably react, with a bit of luck, to a 10 second snipe. I'd probably fail a five second snipe. A 30-second snipe would be easy! AS is easier still.
ok I get the picture on this one it is a risk that I have to take on one of the auctions i am fairly sure that one if my keener competitors who always snipes near the end had time to react and outbid me by sitting over his computer on the whole though AS comes up trumps for me I can't afford to win everything anyway!!