Slightly OT: Snipe issues on eBay

[Econteachert205]

I don't use sniping services, they are frustrating though I am not against them as I both buy and sell. I don't use them because I would buy a lot more if I did. Being forced to make a decision at the end of an auction, or care enough to be there has kept me out of spending more, so if I'm there, it's because I really want the item.

[Republicaninmass]

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

[ATP]

I am not positive but have been reading about it more today. It appears it may be be an issue with the serice trying to log in to ebay to bid with a password that is not deemed strong enough...perhaps if you have a password that is rather simple for ebay, to change it to something more complicated and then update it. Worth a try.

[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!