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Nathaniel1960Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
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How do sniping sites synch up with EBAY's timer as far as ending auctions? And what happens if there are 5 snipes all set to go at the same time?
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  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭
    I imagine they have some connection to the server perhaps so maybe that's where they synch up their clock? As for the simultaneous snipes, that's a good question. Maybe they are operating in parts of a second? Sounds like a good experiment to try to see what happens.
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sounds like a good experiment to try to see what happens. >>



    Yeah, we should have 100 people here all snipe a 99 cent card and see what happens. image
  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭


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    << <i>Sounds like a good experiment to try to see what happens. >>



    Yeah, we should have 100 people here all snipe a 99 cent card and see what happens. image >>



    Most likely, the sniping service fires up all kinds a "simultaneous" connections to EBay for all the queued snipes. They have some sort of program that constantly queues up snipes in time order (FIFO). Luck of the draw in what order those simultaneous bids actually get made, as computers really don't do ANYTHING at the exact same time.
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  • sagardsagard Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭
    NTP is a time protocol that is typically used by computers on the internet that need to know the time. Typically anything that is important will get the time this way, so it is relatively easy for the Snipe site to sync time with Ebay.

    Ebays auctions pages can likely handle 100s of bids per second so all five snipes would be placed. The highest snipe would obviously win in most cases. If all snipes were the same bid, the first one to be entered at Ebay would win. As mentioned above, no bids would hit at the exact same time. One of the bids would be first, even if it were measured to the microsecond.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I tried once with two competing snipes from different sniper services...same eBay account. Somehow eBay managed to stick me with the higher bid even though the low bid should have won.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Sounds like a good experiment to try to see what happens. >>



    Yeah, we should have 100 people here all snipe a 99 cent card and see what happens. image >>



    Most likely, the sniping service fires up all kinds a "simultaneous" connections to EBay for all the queued snipes. They have some sort of program that constantly queues up snipes in time order (FIFO). Luck of the draw in what order those simultaneous bids actually get made, as computers really don't do ANYTHING at the exact same time. >>



    Well, there goes that idea. Heh.
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