Sniping in the UK

Nice to see you in our forum. My goodness 3-4 seconds! You are braver than I am. I use 8 for normal times. Hopefully Sara will come in and answer this question. I personally have never sniped anything overseas from the US so I don't want to advise you.

Last Bidder,

I echo Mrs. M's feelings about lead time, but based your user ID you might disagree. It's been said many times on this forum - it's not the last but the highest bid that counts.

Think about giving it some more time. 8 to 10 seconds is a very short amount of time for some one to retaliate to another person's snipe. If someone does snipe after you, it's very unlikely they saw your snipe.

Can't help you on the UK question.

Sniper Sara B. - Can I get your opinion? I've only got about 16 hr. left.

Thanks,

Gary

I'm still trying to figured out when 16:34 gmt is! I know eBay is GMT -8, but what the heck does all that mean...

Anyways unless it's from 5pm-8pm eBay time then you are fine. Otherwise use at least 5 seconds, and more if on any peak period such as hours and half hours.

Our site does adjust for you if we sense eBay is slow, but having your lead time greater yourself gives you priority if we need to move lead times around.

I bid on UK items almost exclusively and I've never changed my lead-time from the 5 seconds I started out with.

I've always won if I haven't been knocked out by a higher bid.

Go for it!

GG

Hi everyone. GMT, UCT, ZULU, all mean the same. An international convention decided that the meridian through England would be the base for all times. It is of most importance to ships and planes industry. It allows you to figure out what time a ship or plane will arrived anywhere in the world. When you consider some states have Daylight time, some do not, and most countries do not have that daylight time. It would be extremely difficult to calculate arrival/departure times all over the world. Sooo.. by using GMT you can then translate it to your local time anywhere in the world. It is normally stated in the 24hour time so it is more exact. eg: 1PM Zulu/GMT/ would be 1300 Zulu/GMT. It makes adding and subtracting easier.

"Shop" and My Snipes

Shop, that is a fasinating bit of information! Thank you!

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With all time based on GMT it wasn't long before the French got involved. Apparently they wanted the world's time to be based in Paris (which suggests that we might have everything based on PMT - nightmare!)

Hence GMT became more politically correct and is now known as UT (Universal Time) although what the rest of the Universe has to say about that I know not.

Zulu time. This is where the phonetic alphabet comes in. Zulu is used in military operations so that everyone does their thing at the correct time no matter what. If you are an hour ahead (eg. France or British Summer Time) then you are in Alpha time. So (just for SARA) 16:34 GMT is nearly 25 minutes to 5 in the afternoon in Zulu time. Or 17:34 Alpha. Progress thro the alphabet as you head round the world in an Easterly fashion - 2 hours ahead would be Bravo, 3 would be Charlie, 4 would be Delta etc. Dead simple!

R2

I'll stick to GMT, I'm not particularly worried about upseting French sensibilities!

GG