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jarrettsmom9705
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 Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:54 am Post subject: Snipe not executed - I lost auction. :( |
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| I'm new at sniping and decided to watch on eBay as the item I scheduled to snipe counted now to the end of the auction. I was disappointed to see that my snipe was not even attempted even though the current bid at less than 30 seconds to go was lower than my maximum snipe amount. Why didn't Gixen submit my snipe amount? I even checked the automatic bid history to see if my name appeared with a bid amount and it didn't. What happened? |
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mario
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| jarrettsmom9705, what is the item number in question? |
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jarrettsmom9705
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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The auction was for this item
190548676146
Thanks. I have another snipe scheduled for tomorrow and I really want to win it. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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What was the status on Gixen after the auction had finished?
Was your snipe for more than 22.50?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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mario
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Your maximum bid was actually lower than the winning bid... There was nothing that Gixen could have done about it. |
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jarrettsmom9705
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, in the last 10 seconds or so, the winning bid submitted was higher than my snipe, but I never saw my snipe bid appear before that. I thought that my 20.00 bid would have appeared at about 35 seconds to the end of the auction, but there's no evidence that Gixen attempted to submit my highest bid amount. The highest bid before the last 10 seconds or so was for 18.50. I expected my bid to appear before the winning bidder finally submitted the winning bid of 21.50. Wouldn't my 20.00 bid, submitted by Gixen, show up in the automatic bidding history? Thanks for all the help explaining this. This is a very new field of knowledge for me, and I just want to understand it so as to know how best to utilize it. |
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jarrettsmom9705
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I've just gone back and looked at the automatic bids again and it is showing my bid by Gixen now. I guess that it didn't record it immediately after the auction ended. I see now that the snipe did work. So pleased to see that I was simply out-sniped. Thanks for addressing my concerns. |
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nochkin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| You have to be logged in to eBay to see your name in the bid history. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| jarrettsmom9705 wrote: | | Yes, in the last 10 seconds or so, ... I thought that my 20.00 bid would have appeared at about 35 seconds to the end of the auction... |
Under default circumstances Gixen would not attempt to place the bid until there were only 6 seconds remaining for the auction to run... so if the price was not acceptable to eBay at that time you would not expect to see your bid placed.
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binx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject: gixen doesn't place the bid |
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| I lost the auction because gixen did not place the bid at all. This is really wierd because in the gixen list the auction still says it is scheduled while in reality it was ended (24 hour difference). Any help here? |
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mario
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: gixen doesn't place the bid |
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| binx wrote: | | I lost the auction because gixen did not place the bid at all. This is really wierd because in the gixen list the auction still says it is scheduled while in reality it was ended (24 hour difference). Any help here? |
Yes, but I need the item number? |
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binx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| the auction # is 150623190515 |
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mario
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Have you seen the message on the top of the listing?
"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." |
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binx
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| Yes I see that message but if I'm not mistaken, the actual auction end timer is correct which is -24 hours before the gixen time. I don't actually have the data to prove that though |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:42 am Post subject: |
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I think you are saying that the Gixen interface has not yet detected that the auction was finished early by the seller?
It isn't a complaint that Gixen could have bid on it, is it? ... Mario has already justified why that would have been impossible.
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mario
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| binx wrote: | | Yes I see that message but if I'm not mistaken, the actual auction end timer is correct which is -24 hours before the gixen time. I don't actually have the data to prove that though |
It's not - the original end time was 6/30/11 02:08:54 AM PDT.
The seller ended auction early on 6/29/11 02:02:13 PM PDT. |
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