Off-sets - better to be the same or different

[wrpswc]

In the past I've used 6 sec for Chicago and 3 sec for Mirror. Is this a good thing? Or, should I use the same offset on both? Are there Pros and Cons?

[Cupid]

Personally I have the same offset for both, always higher than 6 seconds to gain the advantage of the bid increment rule.

Having the same offset means that occasionally you get two bids placed at the same time on the auction (of the same amount), this does not affect price but is an indication to others that you are using an automated sniper. Some do not like giving that indication and so choose different offsets to avoid it ever happening. Personally I don't think it matters and has never caused me any issues, no-one has ever mentioned it to me in their communication.

Having later snipes (smaller offsets) means less advantage from the bid increment rule, you block less bids that are not more than one bid increment above the current auction price, so being later on one ( even though that only comes into operation when the earlier one fails) is a slight disadvantage as far as I am concerned. Also later bids are very slightly more likely to be late and miss the auction completely, but that is a very low risk I believe.

At the end of the day the choice is there for you because there is no definitive answer as to what is better combination, so it is left up to you to choose what you consider the best for the type of auctions and the prices that you decide to snipe at.
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Mark

[Llamaspit]

I am in Australia. I have mine set for the Primary to bid onto AU site at 8 seconds. Then I have the mirror set to bid on US site at 6 seconds.

This means that the majority of my wins come via the AU site, which suits me. About 1 in 10 or maybe 1 in 20 fail on AU, so the US site picks it up for me.

I prefer to have it logging into 2 different sites (just in case one goes down), and for it to lodge the first bid on my local site.

[Sumflow]

wrpswc wrote:

In the past I've used 6 sec for Chicago and 3 sec for Mirror. Is this a good thing?

I use the same as you, 6 and 3. I have been for years. The six is the main one of course. If anything is screwing up that moment in time, hopefully it will be resolved when the 3 sec Mirror chimes in later.

[Gixen]