why were they undefined?

Did you try clicking the “Confirmation” button next to those snipes? If that doesn’t help, you might want to file a support case using this: http://support.auctionsniper.com/

Rick, when I confirmed the items the reason was they were blocked. I wrote the seller the day it happened and she just replied today saying that I had been correct and should have won these items? She was going to re-bill me through Paypal.
I won items from this seller after that occurred so I don't think she had me blocked as a bidder?
Thanks Carmen

If memory serves, the confirmation button provides a copy of the actual error message from eBay when the snipe was placed. So, either AS is doing something very funky, or eBay is doing something very funky, or the seller has changed something?

Here is a list of reasons a bidder can be blocked:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences

When eBay is hosed, which is their fault, not ours, they sometimes block ANY and ALL bids. And put up a message saying "Transaction blocked." Which means nobody in the world not even Meg Whitman CEO of eBay could bid.

eBay had such problems in the 10am hour on Sunday morning. Check your confirmation message on our site as rick sugggested, or file a support case.

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When eBay is hosed

What does that mean?

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Originally posted by Serenity:

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When eBay is hosed

What does that mean?

Not to be discombobulated as it’s NOT profanity. The h-word has been assigned elsewhere.

“Go to hose!”, “To hose with you!” and “What in the hose is your problem?” don’t have quite the same dramatic impact.


So, there's two types of blocked: "Transaction blocked" and "Blocked by seller". The former is caused by ebay and the later caused by the seller.

That does not fit or make sense. When eBay is helled???!!

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Originally posted by Serenity:
That does not fit or make sense. When eBay is helled???!!

Wash your fingers out with soap!!

I checked the Bible and my fingers are clean.

hosed - busy/overwhelmed/unable to cope!

R2

There are two known reasons why we use 'hosed' in slang to mean messed up.

1. The term was popularised by fighter pilots refering to being hosed by machine gun fire.
2. Once upon a time, a Cray that had been experiencing periodic difficulties crashed, and it was announced to have been hosed. It was discovered that the crash was due to the disconnection of some coolant hoses.

Thank you Bill and R2! That makes sense.

hosed

"Acronyms and Abbreviations" from UCC, Ireland expands it as "Hardware Or Software Error Detected", though this is probably a back-formation.