What happened to my Snipe!?

None of the users on this forum can say for sure - why not file a support case (via the HELP tab) and let us know the outcome.

R2

Here the official reply from AS Support...

"eBay responded to our snipe with an interrim message. I haven‘t seen this one before and am going to forward it to engineering. A new message will kill a snipe until we‘ve added it to the list and parsed past it.

Click on the confirmation link to the right of your snipe to see eBay‘s message to you. You can find that snipe by clicking on Won, or Lost in the gray area above your first Ready snipe right after you log in.

I manually gave you 2 free snipes for the miss. Sorry for your inconvenience.

michael
senior technical support
http://www.auctionsniper.com"

Alot of good that does me now.

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Alot of good that does me now.

It would appear that eBay has changed something and AS are dealing with it. If you cannot accept that then I suggest that you stop using AS and take your small-mindedness elsewhere.

R2

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I suggest that you stop using AS and take your small-mindedness elsewhere

GFord
Ignore R2's comments - he's congenitally rude, its an art he refined whilst addressing the lower orders on his pater's country estate!

It was a technical fault, it happens. AS is normally brilliant at getting round the obstacles that ebay throws in its path.

What I can guarantee you is that round the corner will be a better buy - perhaps you have actually avoided spending too much! With Plasma screens dropping by the month, sets like these must surely fall in price.

I know from experience, when you really want something, you do tend to spend over the odds - last month I paid £32 for three Kastrup Holmegaard glasses because I was determined not to be outbid. This week, six identical ones went for £17! Just be patient, another one will turn up.

Thanks Camera Collector,

I will ignore R2D2 from now on.

Camera, good sound advice. There are so many listings on eBay, another is always on it's way!
GFord, welcome to our forum!

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I will ignore R2D2 from now on.

I have only just stopped weeping...

R2

Someone at eBay sure is an idiot. I mean who in the hell thinks it's a good idea to interject what is pretty much a help page on how to avoid fraud on eBay smack dab into the middle of the bidding process? Pure genious. What a bunch of morons. Seriously, don't they know how many people bid at the end of auctions, that extra step and extra seconds is costing sellers money and isnt the right place to do that. Of course that's IMHO which I think as someone who has dealt with bazillions of snipes knows something about this.

We in fact already had code in place to press the "continue" button on past that page but for some reason eBay is/was/did ignore that in this instance. This is some rare thing they do and we're not sure why they popped that fraud message up for you. We're not able to ever get that message to come up when we go to place a bid so it's nearly impossible to test this and see if we can make a more fullproof way past it. Eventually we'll figure out what is causing eBay to put that up and for who and get that taken care of so it doesn't happen to someone else.

I'm with you on this one Sara(except your use of profanity). I don't understand eBay slowing any bid down, even at the last moment. They get paid by %. I personally have not run into this problem yet.

Two thoughts as to why the “avoid fraud” page enhancement, besides ebay’s poor hiring standards:

• Cut down on sniping (more proxy bids, more bidding wars, more money).
• Some legal reason (they have to be careful of users that are less than bright).

P.S. Had to read Sara’s text twice before I found any four-letter words (hell of a thing). I didn’t know IMHO was considered profanity.

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Originally posted by Serenity:
I'm with you on this one Sara (except your use of profanity).

Ditto.

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Originally posted by Serenity:
The move was the move from hell! Lol!

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Originally posted by Serenity:
Lol, I just noticed, you can say what the hell, but not what the sh** or pi** on that! LOL!

Here's me, getting the hell out of this thread...

R2

Rick (not sara),

What is eBay's relationship with auctionsniper. I always thought they must colloborate but do they try and block AS? Obviously, snipe services do reduce bidding flurries and cost them a little in sellers' fees but it makes it possible for serious bidders like me to bid on eBay. I will soon have a couple of hundred snipes a week going when my season gets going. There is no way I would try and manage all those on ebay's system. I just would not bid and would buy elsewhere.

But I will never understan eBay logic. They stomp on minor issues and refuse to police other huge issues. Go figure.

SGM

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Originally posted by letitflyantiques:
What is eBay's relationship with auctionsniper.

They are separate companies. AS is a third-party (I think that term still applies) service provider.

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Originally posted by letitflyantiques:
I always thought they must colloborate but do they try and block AS?

There doesn’t appear to be any collaboration between them, as AS seems to have to find out about changes ebay is making through ebay’s General Announcements, but that’s only what I’ve picked up on this forum. Ebay doesn’t appear to intentionally block AS, but some of ebay’s changes impact AS.

Sara once said that ebay adds 50,000 new users a day and that AS doesn't have 50,000 users.
Sara's post

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Originally posted by letitflyantiques:
Obviously, snipe services do reduce bidding flurries and cost them a little in sellers' fees but it makes it possible for serious bidders like me to bid on eBay.

Good point.

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Originally posted by letitflyantiques:
But I will never understan eBay logic. They stomp on minor issues and refuse to police other huge issues. Go figure.

Well, based on ebay’s success, they must be doing more right then wrong. Also, Americans LOVE to sue, and they LOVE to sue anything with deep pockets. Ebay are particularly vulnerable to this, as most anyone with a computer can buy AND sell (list) items. I think that ebay has to be very careful and their lawyers are just as involved in changes/policy as are their programmers/management (that’s probably an exaggeration, but not completely inaccurate). Imagine what it must be like to have 150,000,000 users (that’s dated, so it must be more).