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[quote="Aewhistory"][quote="Anonymous"]When you clicked edit, gixen must have been waiting for your new value, pausing itself, in effect, while you decided. Seems pretty reasonable, you may have been trying to lower your bid!

With 10 seconds to go, you shouldn't really be playing with a sniper, just handle the caution yourself![/quote]

I can see this as a plausible outcome, but this seems, at best, like a bug to me.  I had a value input into the sniper.  it is in the last minute that most bidding takes place; in the case of the item I was bidding on the last minute contained ALL of the bidding.  Consequently, there will be times when the price rises within seconds and you may need to adjust your snipe.  I accept that my adjustment was too late, but the mere attempt to raise my bid erasing my current one is just silliness.

The whole point of a sniper is to make sure you register your bid in these last few seconds, not drive up the price, etc., so it shouldn't erase and existing bid until and edit is complete.  look at the "edit" process.  When you put in a bid it puts it under your list of snipes.  Now you can 'edit' or 'cancel'.  if you cancel it goes away, if you edit it brings up the info you originally put in at the bottom of the screen.  here you can change the price. But you've also got another set of buttons: "modify" or "cancel".   So cancel goes back to the original bid, modify puts in a new bid.... What happens when your actions result in neither?  That should automatically result in a cancel and the placement of your original bid.  Why?  because if you intended to cancel your bid you could have hit cancel and stopped the process.  So there is no logic to this implementation.  Whether I raise or lower my bid, I AM trying to bid, so the system should not stop my bid unless I cancel it or it cannot implement it.  I did not cancel and only my second bid, the change, was unable to be implemented.  So this just makes no sense.[/quote]

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