Gixen placed bids 7minutes before end of auction, why not 7

[c1993w]

Hi there,

I used to use Gixen years and years ago, but then I stopped using eBay for a while. When I used to use Gixen, I could adjust when my bid would be submitted (aka 30s before end, 10s, 5s, etc).

When I just set up my Gixen for today, I did not see an option for this.

I just lost an auction, and the bidding history showed me bidding on the item 7 minutes prior to the end of the item. Could anyone explain to me why that is? If I understand the bidding history correctly, it may have lost me the auction at $213 and I may have actually won the auction at $165 had my snipe executed 5s before end.

Item #: 277258656609

[Cupid]

Here's what I'm seeing, on the American site, in terms of actual late bids:

Time Ended: Jul 26, 2025 at 9:00AM PDT

6***i (51) $213.50 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:59am PDT
6***w (48 ) $211.00 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:56am PDT
8***0 (735) $185.00 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:47am PDT
5***1 (61) $182.00 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:54am PDT
8***0 (735) $179.00 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:31am PDT
i***- (10) $175.00 26 Jul 2025 at 8:59:45am PDT

Which is all in the last 15 seconds, was your bid placed earlier than that ?

You can choose an offset (up to 15 seconds) if you have an active Mirror subscription, otherwise the default is 6 seconds offset.

If your bid was for $211.00 from an account with 48 feedbacks it was actually placed 4 seconds before the end of the auction.

The winning bid was placed 1 second before the end of the auction, it's unlikely to be a reaction, in 3 seconds, that's most likely a bid that someone had decided to place well before any of those bids came in. It was at least one bid increment more than 211 because in the range $100.00?$249.99 the bid increment is $2.50.
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Mark

[mario]

Confirming that your bid was the $211 one. Not sure why you think your bid was placed 7 minutes early. Gixen can't do this, it's designed in such a way that this is practically impossible. It has never happened.

[c1993w]

Thank you for the data ! I was misreading the mobile eBay app. The mobile app showed 7m and 9m as the ?last bid timestamps? and I wasn?t looking at it correctly. When I logged on with my computer I see it executed 4s before.

How would I shift it to bid 1s before? I see the offset fields, but I don?t quite understand what offset means.

Thanks for your help!

[Gixen]

[Cupid]