Gixen didn't bid AUCTION ENDED EARLY OR SNIPE LATE

[spaulmeek]

eBay item # 282046167483
My bid was $14.71 above winning bid. Winning bid within last 4 seconds, so wasn't ended early. I have used Gixen several times successfully, but this time was a failure. Do you know what happened? Thank you for your time. Regards, Paul

[mario]

Paul,

Multiple timeouts happened, which caused this snipe to be fail. The failure rate today was significantly higher than normal, at around 3%. This seems to be all caused by something on ebay's side. At this point I am not sure what was going on.

[Bidwisely]

I got the same message "auction ended early or snipe late" on my regular Gixen but my Mirror won it. I had previously changed my mirror to 8 seconds as Cupid had suggested. I don't know if that is what helped it win but maybe, as Cupid recommended, it is a good idea to put 8 seconds on Mirror.

I also got a different strange message today on a different snipe that said "item won from elsewhere" on my regular Gixen, but Mirror had won it. So, Mirror was the "elsewhere". I don't snipe or bid from any other "elsewhere" places. Only use Gixen.

[mario]

Bidwisely,

Yes, "won from elsewhere" can be caused by win on the mirror.

[Gixen]

[mrerockland]

I got the same message today as well. The item was #142001906163. My bid was almost 10X as much. I guess I'll use the mirror service from now on.

[ftld]

Have you seen these reports that eBay has started blocking sniping services:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y16/m05/i23/s01

http://www.esnipe.com/news

[littlebunnyfoufou61]

Both my main and mirror on item# 231954929969 failed this morning with a message about log-in timing out. First time ever.

[mario]

Unfortunately timeouts are now more common than ever. At this point I still don't fully understand why, but it's obvious that the problem is on ebay's side.

This site shows obvious problems: http://downdetector.co.uk/problems/ebay/map/