Well, I wanted an item that ended on Sep-01-05 23:45:03 PDT (That's Thursday night...) So I entered a snipe with a 7 second lead...
Now, I was outbid and I have no problem with that as my max bid was lower than the others - BUT...
My bid wasn't placed 7 seconds before... it was placed at Sep-01-05 23:39:02 PDT. Which is 6 minutes and 1 second before end of auction.
How come?! And if I did have a max bid somebody would have a great deal of time to counter it in 6 minutes...
I have another item I'm really wanting to "snipe" (since I'm tired of everyone else sniping me...) but I need to know that this is dependable...
Another thing I found out were that some of the other highbidders for this item were sellers that had the same item up for auction! Seems like they try to press up prices or something...
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