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I just lost 2 auctions. The snipe was never made and I got the email below. WHY???

I verified my account details and it said all my details were valid and all snipes will be properly placed

My logins and passwords are the same on both ebay and AS

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Auction Sniper Snipe Status Report
eBay Item: Excellent Timber Wardrobe
(Item # 250201243719)
Seller: bgw-1
Your Max Bid: AU $455
Current Item Price: AU $366.99

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Status Summary: Invalid UserId/Pass
Your snipe did not win because of the reason above
Click here to see eBay's response to your snipe
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I think the reason eBay lets people have stupid and short passwords is because they're afraid users can barely remember those passwords. How in the world would they remember a significantly strong password.

I've seen hundreds or thousands of passwords over the years doing support. Most are very weak. They have gotten better over the years, but they are still weak. A decent percent of people use the last 4 digits of their phone, birthday, or social security #. Many think they are being smart and safe doing passwords like: 123qwe or qweasd. Tons and tons use dictionary words. Etc.
Danger Boy. You should be thanking us and singing the praises of yet another benefit of AuctionSniper. Fraud prevention!

We saved your rear from winning a fraudulent PS3 auction that eBay deleted from their servers. Thus the reason your snipe failed was because eBay killed that auction.

Had you not been sniping the fraudulent seller would have had access to your email address and could have then tried one of many different scams on you to try and get that several hundred dollars those things sell for.

This is nice new reason to use sniper rather than proxy bidding which I had never thought of.

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This sucks.
No. What would have sucked would have been paying for that item and never getting it. Which is what would have happened if eBay didn't kill that auction.
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As part of AS's Verify they could check the 'strength' of passwords.
And be exposed to the liability should a user’s password get hacked? I don’t think so!!

And, then there are the users that would bitch about always getting this warning message and posting, “Someone is trying to hack into my account”, or “I’m getting this warning about my password – This sucks.” So, after AS added this feature, people would be complaining on the forum, then one (I think there are only 2 or 3) of the forum regulars would start to crusade and crusade and crusade AS to add the option of turning it off/on, then I would crusade to get that added to the Q & A, then some French guy would want a French version, then some Brit would want the text to have z’s where Yanks put s’s.

AS stands for AuctionSniper, not AuctionStrengther.

Anyway, ebay already provides that in that if they don’t add that captcha, then you’re OK. And there’s documentation, on ebay, and elsewhere/everywhere, about what one should do to have a safe password.

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