[Leon]

Originally Posted by nat

I tried Gavelsnipe for the first time yesterday. I used their default 20 second buffer, beat the current high bid, and then got re-sniped by the guy whose bid I beat. When manually sniping I do it with 5 seconds left. Gavelsnipe warns that they can't guarantee that snipes at less than 20 seconds will go through. How much of a danger is that? Doing it manually I've only had a handful not go through in 5 seconds, do the automatic snipes really take that much longer?

20 seconds sounds like an eternity. I set mine for about 5 or 6 seconds and let the chips fall where they may....It extremely rarely doesn't work, and if I can't afford to lose something I bid myself