sniping with 3 seconds before close of auction??

Personally I would go 5 seconds. 3 seconds will probably make it MOST times, but if ebay slows down you may be out of luck.
Just make sure you add 15 odd seconds for auctions ending on the quarter hour, half hour and hour, espcially Sundays as they are really heavy traffic auctions and ebay's reponse might be a bit slower.

I have never had a problem with 5 seconds

Good Luck and Welcome

Lexie

That is cutting it very close. I normally uses 8 seconds except on Sunday pm between 5:30 and 8:30 PST and on the hour, half, and quarter. I add 10 to 15 to it then. The most important thing is bid your max..the highest bid wins!!

Here is some advice from Sara who is the AS Support Goddess >>Click Here<<

If you want even more information, use the search button up the top and seach "lead times" you will dozens of links

Lexie

Thanks everyone!!!

Based on the number of complaints I've seen here from people who set their lead to 5 seconds or less, then didn't understand why AS had to add 30 seconds to their auction to make sure the snipe made it on time, I don't think I'll be sniping anything less than 8-10 seconds from now on. If I've bid my true max, and somebody wants it SO VERY much worse than me, and they can beat my entire proxy in 8 seconds, let'em have it!

Again, it's the HIGHEST bid that wins, not the last, and even if they do have time to see (and react to) my snipe, who's to say the bid they see is my MAX?