Too slow???
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I have Jbidder programed to bid at 1 sec.
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Greetings, No, it reads ‘too low’. The amount being bid was too low to be accepted by eBay’s servers. — Morgan Schweers, Cyber*FOX*! |
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Greetings, That said, I very strongly discourage 1 second snipes unless you’re comfortable with the possibility of losing the auction due to network traffic fluctuations, which are out of JBidwatcher’s control. JBidwatcher will do its best, but the network (yours, your ISPs, eBays, and anybody in between) is not always responsive enough. — Morgan Schweers, Cyber*FOX*! |
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How low do you think i should set the snipe time to? |
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Hi, The way I work it out is to open an eBay auction page (an auction that’s near it’s end) and note the time to the end of the auction in minutes and seconds (point A) click refresh and note the time again (point B) and then immediately click refresh again and note the time again (point C) – the difference in time should be seconds. Simply take the difference in time between point B and C (seconds) and add 2 seconds for traffic. ie On my PC the difference in time is 4 seconds and so I set my interval 6 secs. Hoddy |
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Hoddy, I don’t really understand the logic of what you are trying to do. I just set my snipe time at 8 seconds. That allows enough tolerance to account for network delays, I have never missed a snipe because of the time. And it’s highly unlikely another bidder will have time to react to your “snipe” bid. Setting the snipe time anywhere near 1 or 2 seconds will just increase your chances of missing a snipe completely. I think the misconception is that you need to have a shorter snipe time than another sniper. Now, take exactly the same scenario but with your snipe time at 2 seconds |
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I’m sorry, I can’t help myself: the opposite of “wins” is “loses.” “Looses” is the opposite of “ties together.” |
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Greetings, Heh; it is a surprisingly common mistyping. That noted though, lots of JBidwatcher users didn’t start with English. (It’s surprisingly popular outside the US, despite my sad lack of localization so far.) I generally give a lot of slack to everybody, because of this. The meat of what he’s saying, though, is exactly right. Trying to get a 1 second snipe is generally only for bragging purposes, not for day-to-day sniping. I’ve done it, but I only tried from a very fast corporate network, in the middle of the night. :) Home internet access has too much variability to be confident that it’ll all go off perfectly. Giving yourself a little buffer is always good. That wasn’t the case in this case, however. It set up the snipe at 2 minutes before the end, and at that point it was already too low a snipe amount versus the current price. I address the snipe timing issue somewhat here: Good luck with your auctions! — Morgan Schweers, Cyber*FOX*! |
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apikoros – I actually had to look up Webster’s because “lose” with one “o” just doesn’t look right. But of course you’re right, so I changed my post, even though “lose” now doesn’t look right to me….but it is right according to Webster’s . |