Slightly OT: Snipe issues on eBay

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

Missed hundreds of dollars in bid today with bidding scheduler. Is there a fix?

If this issue is still ongoing, it has to make sellers seriously reconsider how you sell on eBay. Or perhaps you just go elsewhere.

Generally speaking, eBay takes 10% and Paypal is another 2.9%. Depending on what you are selling, I have to believe a lot of auction houses can beat that price.

[itjclarke]

eBay should just do this in house as an added feature.

Adding- that being said, bidding would probably devolve into 10-15 last second snipes... Though I expect it will eventually do so anyway, as more people discover sniping services. There have gotta be other combos that can help keep auctions alive, like the Japanese example given, or AH type extended bidding, possibly larger bid increments that would incentivize locking in the price you want early.

[bobbyw8469]

I'm calling Ebay tonight about it. So far, to my knowledge, they haven't acknowledged any outage.

[bobbyw8469]

Hold time has been around one hour now.

[bobbyw8469]

Well...that was interesting. Not sure what to make of that. I do hope that Ebay has their glitch fixed, and will allow the snipers to start bidding again. I know several members hate them, but I for one, welcome them with open arms!

[ATP]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Well...that was interesting. Not sure what to make of that. I do hope that Ebay has their glitch fixed, and will allow the snipers to start bidding again. I know several members hate them, but I for one, welcome them with open arms!

Hi Bobby, would be curious to hear if eBay had any comments about this when you spoke to them. I would assume it is just security/password related, but I have learned not to assume too much regarding that. I can't imagine they would intentionally not want bids to come in, as it takes money out of their pocket as well...unless like I mentioned earlier it has something to do with an upcoming, in house snipe service of some kind.

[bobbyw8469]

Well...Ebay recommended that I just give the guy his money back, and get my FVF's back. They said he can't neg me cause he will have been refunded. Seems odd to me.