lost auction with my snipe high than sell price

dezhood_37 · Guest

Item ID: 331776887781

Le Roy " Ace" Gutowsky,Detroit Lions Football,Matchbook Cover,1934,Rare!! (by sadl-ethe)
ENDED 13.99 4.24 USD BID UNDER ASKING PRICE

Why did I lose this auction? It sold for 4.24 and my snipe was 13.99?

Thanks.

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7970 Location: Bristol, UK

Was this snipe Mirrored?

If so what was the status that Gixen gave the snipe on the Mirror tab?

Did you also place any bids manually?
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Mark

John · Guest

Thanks Mark. I appreciate the reply - the snipe was not mirrored, I placed the 1st bid - 3.99, then I set my snipe at 13.99 in Gixen in left.

I completely understand snipes fail sometimes and its my fault for not having mirror service.

Now, I'm just looking for a logical explanation because "BID UNDER ASKING PRICE" doesn't make sense.

I don't see any retractions and I was not logged into eBay myself. Any idea what happened? The auction only had 2 bidders - me first then the winner with 8 seconds left.

Thanks,

John

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7267

John,

It looks like this snipe was late, and the status was mis-interpreted by Gixen.

Sorry about the confusion - I will see that I fix this.

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John · Guest

Thanks Mario. I appreciate it.

I love the service and I always recommend it to other sports memorabilia collectors on those boards. This is the first issue I've ever had and I snipe a lot.

John

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7267

Unfortunately it happens that snipes are late. It's rare, but that 1 in 300 that's late still happens. Since I have 30,000 or so snipes in the database at every moment, I can see statistics that individual users can't.

And while I obviously have an interest in promoting mirror service, I believe myself that it's worth having it, exactly for this reason.