Two clocks on ebay?

alaura22

I was bidding on a coin on ebay, when I clicked on the bid now I watched the clock run down and at 3 seconds left I placed my bid. My bid was placed only to find out that there was another 10 seconds left in the auction before it closed. What's up with that? I ended up losing the auction. Bidders beware, just another game that they play to stop snipping.

MsMorrisine

that's not even a good conspiracy theory

not sure how your browser got out of sync but it did

in the future, refresh with 1 minute to go and with the confidence it will reload by 20 secs left

alaura22

@MsMorrisine said:
that's not even a good conspiracy theory

not sure how your browser got out of sync but it did

in the future, refresh with 1 minute to go and with the confidence it will reload by 20 secs left

That has been done and it is still out of wack. It's not my broswer

pcgsregistrycollector

@alaura22 said:

@MsMorrisine said:
that's not even a good conspiracy theory

not sure how your browser got out of sync but it did

in the future, refresh with 1 minute to go and with the confidence it will reload by 20 secs left

That has been done and it is still out of wack. It's not my broswer

Get a better computer

alaura22

@MsMorrisine said:
that's not even a good conspiracy theory

Not trying to make this a conspicacy, just putting it out there
Don't put words in my mouth and make this more than it is

winesteven

I use a sniping program when bidding on eBay auctions, and it has never failed me. This eliminates the risk of electrical or other computer connectivity issues in my house, but more importantly, I don’t have to be paying attention. I can be dining out, at a Symphony or movie, or dealing with “digestive” issues, lol. The program allows me to plug in well in advance exactly how many seconds before the end I want my bid to be made. Personally, I go with 10 seconds, but as noted, you can select less time remaining.

Steve

Dave99B

I’m pretty sure you have some kind of caching issue with your browser.

Dave

alaura22

@winesteven said:
I use a sniping program when bidding on eBay auctions, and it has never failed me. This eliminates the risk of electrical or other computer connectivity issues in my house, but more importantly, I don’t have to be paying attention. I can be dining out, at a Symphony or movie, or dealing with “digestive” issues, lol. The program allows me to plug in well in advance exactly how many seconds before the end I want my bid to be made. Personally, I go with 10 seconds, but as noted, you can select less time remaining.

Steve

Steve, I usually do use a snipping apt but didn't tonight
I will use it from now on

davewesen

@winesteven said:
I use a sniping program when bidding on eBay auctions, and it has never failed me. This eliminates the risk of electrical or other computer connectivity issues in my house, but more importantly, I don’t have to be paying attention. I can be dining out, at a Symphony or movie, or dealing with “digestive” issues, lol. The program allows me to plug in well in advance exactly how many seconds before the end I want my bid to be made. Personally, I go with 10 seconds, but as noted, you can select less time remaining.

Steve

So do I using auctionstealer. Last week I got notification that my snipe had won. I went to pay and there were 3 bidders with higher bids and I did not win. I contacted auctionstealer to see what is up with that.

They got back to me and said eBay has multiple servers. Occasionally their time clocks are out of sync. The first time it has happened to me with hundreds of snipe bids placed over the years.

The winner bid more than my max bid so did not really matter to me, just curious.

Even the original poster had someone place a higher bid. Bidding last is not how you win, you need the highest bid, or a bid at least the minimum next bid if the current high bid is very close to your max.

alaura22

@davewesen
Thank you for that info
Yes someone bid higher than me but the whole idea of snipping is not to give them the time to out bid you.
If the clocks are not in sync that would explain it

winesteven

@alaura22 said:
@davewesen
Thank you for that info
Yes someone bid higher than me but the whole idea of snipping is not to give them the time to out bid you.
If the clocks are not in sync that would explain it

Is it possible that competitor was going to place his max bid at that time anyway, without even knowing your max bid? If so, then the timing of your bid doesn’t really matter if your max bid was less than his max bid. If you disagree, please show us the eBay timing and amount of your bid and his bid. No need to identify the actual coin or denomination. Thanks.

Steve

Coins3675

I would get a different computer.

jmlanzaf

@Coins3675 said:
I would get a different computer.

Won't help if the problem is the ebay servers...

BillJones

@pcgsregistrycollector said:

@alaura22 said:

@MsMorrisine said:
that's not even a good conspiracy theory

not sure how your browser got out of sync but it did

in the future, refresh with 1 minute to go and with the confidence it will reload by 20 secs left

That has been done and it is still out of wack. It's not my broswer

Get a better computer

Better still avoid eBay. That's my approach because of snipping. Why spend your life disappointed for nothing?

davewesen

@alaura22 said:
@davewesen
Thank you for that info
Yes someone bid higher than me but the whole idea of snipping is not to give them the time to out bid you.
If the clocks are not in sync that would explain it

The bid history on that item might have bids that look odd for the last minute with a smaller bid later than a higher one. Luckily it does not happen often and I would rather have a clock mismatch occasionally than the entire eBay website crash.

EXOJUNKIE

FWIW, I’ve found that my computer and my cell phone are 2-3 seconds apart from each other on eBay auctions — the computer is more accurate.

winesteven

@BillJones said:

Better still avoid eBay. That's my approach because of snipping. Why spend your life disappointed for nothing?

I periodically USE eBay because of sniping! That makes my collecting life more worthwhile!

Steve

BillJones

@winesteven said:

@BillJones said:

Better still avoid eBay. That's my approach because of snipping. Why spend your life disappointed for nothing?

I periodically USE eBay because of sniping! That makes my collecting life more worthwhile!

Steve

Differ stokes. Each to their own.