Originally Posted by
dannyg1
Guy's!,
My snipe was set for 5 seconds before close, but the service seems to 'hiccup', as I said, when I'm bidding for things that are exceptionally undervalued. In the case of the red Torelli, the hiccup was a snipe placed at 40 seconds before close.
The service apologized when I brought it to their attention and offered me 3 free snipes but I'm still thinking that maybe the winner was a friend of a guy at the sniper service. Get it? Much easier to find good prospective auctions by following the requested snipe sheets of frequent bidders than it is to surf Ebay manually, right?
This seems rather unlikely. A sniper service that was doing this would soon have no users. However, some of the services (including Gixen, which I use) offer a higher paid level of service with slightly faster servers and slightly later bids.
Originally Posted by Gixen FAQ
How close are your snipes to the end of the auction?
5 seconds or less. And yes, it can happen that your bid is submitted (too) late, or not submitted at all due to technical or other problems. This happens rarely, but nevertheless, it happens. Update (March 30th, 2007): You can greatly decrease the odds of your snipe being late or not submitted by subscribing to Gixen Mirror service. Gixen Mirror is the most reliable sniping service you can possibly find. While still not impossible to happen, no Gixen Mirror subscribers have ever missed their auction due to Gixen malfunction. We work hard to keep this record or reliability.
I've never had any problems with the free service that have made me want to pay for Gixen Mirror, but sometimes I feel like I should sign up for it just to support the site.