When (if ever) is a Snipe Not a Snipe?

As I understand it, AS will automatically try to place your bids with whatever lead time you have set,as always. If you are already highest bidder (and at a full bid increment above the second highest bidder, as per ebay guidelines), your winning bid amount will not increase.

If, perchance, your regular bids are highest, but not by a full bid increment, ebay will take only as much of your AS snipe bid as is needed to reach an increment level.

If you win, whether by previous bid or AS snipe, AS will charge you for the snipes, as per their guidelines. Small price for a win, in any case.

If you lose, you lose, but at least no fee for the snipes, then. And more of your desired items will come along sooner or later. (You could try setting up a search and a bid group.)

Hope you win - unless, of course, you're bidding against me!

P.S. - My dogs are named Casey, Snickers, and Douglas.

Yes, that's right.

If AS bids for you, you have used their resources to increase your max. If you win you are charged a fee or free snipe.

Thanks so much for explaining this to me--I'm still pretty new and don't know all the rules. I certainly don't mind paying for snipes--the prices are SOOOOOOOOOO reasonable! I won one of the two auctions I had snipes on, I'm certain I wouldn't have been able to win the one I did without AuctionSniper. I feel OK about losing the other auction--I loved the item but bid as much as I possibly could, and was beat by someone with more $$$$. Fair enough for me!

PS My dog's name is Emmylou--she's the world's most expensive mutt--she's pulled both her back ACL tendons and now has steel knees! But she's worth every penny, and my husband agreed we just couldn't put her down, which was our only other alternative. Now she's been to the vet to the pets of the stars in Sun Valley, Idaho!