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I had Auction Sniper set to bid with 4 seconds lead time, as usual, as I've used Auction Sniper dozens of times before with no problems, and what did it do? It bid with 40+ minutes to go...I had to retract the bid---it was way too high a bid to be sitting out there for 40 minutes, especially since it was a popular auction (10+ bids). What is the point of Auction Sniper if it bids 40 minutes early? Any ideas why this would have occured? It was not on a Friday during maintenance---it was Monday evening around 7pm PST. Surely there wasn't SO much 'traffic' that it had to bid forty minutes early!

And to add insult to injury, Auction Sniper then would not let me modify my bid afterwords, since as far as it was concerned, the bid was over and done with...even though it said in clear writing there "lead time 4 sec" and "Auction Ends: 42 minutes." Makes me mad...Any ideas why this may have happened?
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This has been fixed. Our servers connect to time servers elsewhere to update themselves every 2 minutes. One of the servers we get the time from was off. These are usually places like miliary sites, labratories, and colleges. We're checking out which site was wrong and are removing them from the list of time servers. This is not something that happens often or to this degree. In the past it's happened maybe twice in 3 years and was only off by a few minutes and we removed that site as well.

I appologize for the inconvience. If you feel it affected your snipe file a support case on the Help tab and we'll credit you a couple free snipes.
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Originally posted by Mr. Wumper:
And to add insult to injury, Auction Sniper then would not let me modify my bid afterwords, since as far as it was concerned, the bid was over and done with...even though it said in clear writing there "lead time 4 sec" and "Auction Ends: 42 minutes." Makes me mad...Any ideas why this may have happened?
I guess it wouldn't even let you create a new snipe...

Enjoy your two free snipes! [I've just realised - it used to be three (I once got four!) but now it's two. Hmmm...]

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