I've lost two auctions in the last hour because my sniper isn't working. Wassssuuuuupppp????
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One Mississippi, Two Mississippi....
Now 3 mississippi... 
as usual eBay problems:
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
I myself had extensive problems getting on to eBay last night. I would have to click on items repeatedly, and would frequently get the message stating that the eBay website was not responding. This, in turn, affected AS. But I DID win two more snipes later in the evening! 
Well... I wasn't having any problems getting into ebay at all. I sat right there and watched myself lose 5 auctions... lol! The last one being just a few hours ago. Oh well, saved me some money I guess and one very nice seller gave me the same deal as I lost so that one actually worked out cheaper for me.
I have some more today, guess I'll see if I'm going to win any of them or not. Kinda scared to just sit here and not bid since my sniper isn't sniping!
I have some more today, guess I'll see if I'm going to win any of them or not. Kinda scared to just sit here and not bid since my sniper isn't sniping!
I got onto E-Bay's site last night, but it was very, very slow. The items were taking so long to view that I just gave up.
Alrighty then. I guess since the best response I can get is that it's ebay's fault... even though I'm not having problems with ebay and the sniper still isn't working today... I'll just have to settle for that answer. It's worked so well for me the last several months it's somewhat disappointing to sit here and not even get a bid in and lose auctions where my snipe is higher than the winning bid! But... I guess it's ebay's fault. Thanks for all the support. I think I'll go talk to the wall now. 
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Well... I wasn't having any problems getting into ebay at all.
Just because you can get there doesnt mean we can. Often times eBay only partially fails. In those situations some people can get there and some cant. Based on traffic to our site during the times they said they had trouble last night about 35% of eBay users could not get to eBay. You were part of the 65% that could.
If you're saying it's stil happening today then I'd highly advise that you check the confirmation links for your snipes that have ended, and see what they say. Perhaps you have changed your password on eBay for example or something like that.
Cant be sure it was your account, but only account we have from that ISP, so I think it's you. I see 2 missed bids last night.
Both at 3 second lead time. Both exactly at the half hour. As is mentioned many times on this board such snipes are very dangerous. #1 for the 3 second lead time on a Sunday night. #2 for being on the half hour or hour you should do at least 15 seconds. Because eBay is dumb. They allow sellers to pay 10 cents to scheduler their items. So umpteen million sellers all do like 6:30/7:30/8:30
Then eBay gets slammed with bidders, buyers, sellers refreshing the pgaes and bidding and everything else. It clogs eBay. It slows their site considerably. It may take them 10-45 seconds to accept your bid. So 3 wont work.
Our automated bidding systems do much to compenstate, but apparently not even that was enough last night. I'm sure we bid at least 10-15 seconds out and that bid still go their late.
Sorry, not much we can do when eBay is so unreliable. Heck there is another thread here right now where the person bid at 7:00 pm or 7:30pm and his bid went in at 28 seconds instead of 2 secods and he complained. So it's a lose/lose situation for us. Put the bid in too early we lose. Dont get it in in time, we lose. We have no control over eBay and how poorly their systems do or dont respond at those extremely active peak periods they've artifically created by charging sellers that 10 cents. Wish we did. We do our best but without something that read into the future we just cant get a bid in perfectly like we normally do at those strange times.
What I'd do is watch for the end time when you are adding snipes and add an extra 10-15 seconds for any auctions ending on the hour and half hour.
Both at 3 second lead time. Both exactly at the half hour. As is mentioned many times on this board such snipes are very dangerous. #1 for the 3 second lead time on a Sunday night. #2 for being on the half hour or hour you should do at least 15 seconds. Because eBay is dumb. They allow sellers to pay 10 cents to scheduler their items. So umpteen million sellers all do like 6:30/7:30/8:30
Then eBay gets slammed with bidders, buyers, sellers refreshing the pgaes and bidding and everything else. It clogs eBay. It slows their site considerably. It may take them 10-45 seconds to accept your bid. So 3 wont work.
Our automated bidding systems do much to compenstate, but apparently not even that was enough last night. I'm sure we bid at least 10-15 seconds out and that bid still go their late.
Sorry, not much we can do when eBay is so unreliable. Heck there is another thread here right now where the person bid at 7:00 pm or 7:30pm and his bid went in at 28 seconds instead of 2 secods and he complained. So it's a lose/lose situation for us. Put the bid in too early we lose. Dont get it in in time, we lose. We have no control over eBay and how poorly their systems do or dont respond at those extremely active peak periods they've artifically created by charging sellers that 10 cents. Wish we did. We do our best but without something that read into the future we just cant get a bid in perfectly like we normally do at those strange times.
What I'd do is watch for the end time when you are adding snipes and add an extra 10-15 seconds for any auctions ending on the hour and half hour.
Fortunately most of the sellers I buy from don't schedule auctions, so they rarely close on the half hour. But I'll pay more attention to that and add some time if they do.
I've won over 50 items since I joined AS, and although there have been a number that I've lost, everyone of them have been because there was another bidder that bid more than me. But since I bid the max I was willing to spend in my snipe, I don't care. Let them have it.
For me AS has been very reliable. I have no complaints. Although still have two suggestions - import searches (so I can import the searches I created in eBay and saved via save this search), and the ability to have a watch list (so I can watch auctions that have an opening bid higher than what I'm willing to pay).
I've won over 50 items since I joined AS, and although there have been a number that I've lost, everyone of them have been because there was another bidder that bid more than me. But since I bid the max I was willing to spend in my snipe, I don't care. Let them have it.
For me AS has been very reliable. I have no complaints. Although still have two suggestions - import searches (so I can import the searches I created in eBay and saved via save this search), and the ability to have a watch list (so I can watch auctions that have an opening bid higher than what I'm willing to pay).