Ebay preventing Snipes

[contactbelleboutiqueuk_7]

So the "geniuses" at Ebay have now decided to prevent snipes if you have more than 1 Unpaid item.
How can this be resolved? The whole concept of sniping is to be able to leave your pc and place as many snipes as you want whilst going about your daily business. If I now have to panic to pay for every single item as and when I win it, then the whole idea of sniping has just been completely destroyed. Instead of sitting in front of my pc waiting to bid, I now have to sit in front of my pc making sure I pay immediately. Absolute rubbish. there is no point in using a sniping programme now is there?
(Not your faults I realise, but another spiteful rule by Ebay)

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[contactbelleboutiqueuk_7]

[contactbelleboutiqueuk_7]

Can somebody from Gixen respond please with some information that may be useful? (Not somebody that clearly has either read the question properly or doesnt understand it)

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[rickajho]

You need to provide the eBay item numbers for your bids that failed before Mario can look into it.

[Cupid]

Yes, item numbers are required before a specific investigation can be made. If you could provide the status that Gixen gave the failed snipes after the auction had completed, then more explanation may also be able to be provided by other Gixen users.

rickajho is correct that this can not be just because you have unpaid items, the restrictions that can be placed by sellers only relate to actual unpaid item strikes.

Have you won other items recently from the same seller? Because there are also restrictions that sellers can put on their items that relate to the number of items that they are prepared to sell to any particular Ebay id.
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[contactbelleboutiqueuk_7]

[Cupid]

Is contactbelleboutiqueuk_7 your Ebay id, sometimes it is possible for Mario to trace the failed snipe(s) from your Ebay id alone.

You are the only person to be reporting a new restriction, so far.

So more evidence would need to be analysed before any advice could be provided, or changes to the software contemplated.

It is common to buy many items before paying for any of them, people want to do that so that they can reduce overall shipping costs when buying from the same seller. So I find it hard to believe that Ebay would introduce a restriction that dictated you could only have one unpaid item before restrictions to bidding are imposed.

I also think there would already be many more reports here just from Gixen users if this were a new feature that Ebay had introduced.
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[mario]

I can check the logs for items approximately up to 2 weeks old.

This would be the first time I hear someone was blocked for (recently won) unpaid items. I would like to see what happened if that's the case.

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