ebay screen freezing trying to place snipe bid...

[yanksfan09]

Ebay's definitely gonna lose out on some money for these issues if they care. Maybe they're just content with being like Amazon with all the BIN listings.

Very upset.... Oh well, guess I'll call it a night.

[Jantz]

Ebay hasn't been freezing up for me while non-snipe bidding tonight, but some other glitch has been affecting my searches.

For example, I was looking for T206 Brashear cards, typed in the info under "all categories" and got a message saying "zero results found for T206 Brashear in the Home & Garden category".

A few minutes later, my next T206 search took me to the Art category.

[bobbyw8469]

As much as everyone hates to do it, that is why it sometimes pays to bid on cards the old fashioned way.

[swarmee]

I think he was trying to place the bid "the old fashioned way." His 'snipe' reference was to placing a bid in the last 10 seconds, which is a snipe. He doesn't say he's using a snipe service.

Were you on an app or desktop/laptop computer browser? I have seen the app be off by a few seconds, and in some cases show that an item ended and then still had two seconds to go, where more bids got in. Best to make end-of-auction bids on a desktop computer with about 8 seconds to go.

[rainier2004]

I'll say this for Erick as I am well aware of the card he was bidding on...

That f#$%ing sucks ass big time my friend...so sorry to here that's what happened.

Mine has froze as well, I place bids w/ 12 seconds now just in case, of course that's enough time for someone else to bid again making a no win situation for me.

Hopefully the card comes up again very soon...sorry about that Erick.

[yanksfan09]

Thanks Steve,

You know my pain on this one! I had stayed up late and monitored it all week long. I was on my home desktop computer with wired Internet and full Internet service. Manually ready to place bid so I'm pretty sure it was a glitch, slow service on ebays end.

Fingers crossed Steve although this particular copy had so much eye appeal I doubt I'll be able to afford a similar looking one for anywhere in same price range. Guess I'll have to bid earlier and get bid up higher from now on

[bobbyw8469]

No....I meant bid with a proxy. Not waiting until seconds are left. Sometimes bidding with a proxy nets you a fortune. Remember when Ebay was blocking people from bidding around 2 months ago?? I sold a $300+ rare program for $50 because NOONE COULD BID ON IT!!!! Unless you bid the "normal way" during the week, you weren't even able to log in and see items, much less bid on them!

[insccollectibles]

I've noticed this as well. Start around 15-20 seconds and have two browsers opened like Chrome and Firefox until it is resolved