Have you ever gotten this screen when trying to snipe a comic at the last second on ebay? 1 1

[gadzukes]

Look what it says in the green.

[B2D327]

Never seen that one. I have gotten the “sorry, you missed out on this item” immediately after putting in a sniper bid only to get an email saying “congratulations, you won” seconds later.

[Gaard]

Maybe he has his snipe bid set to 1 second before the hammer. Mine is set to 3. Maybe I should change it.

[Lightning55]

That's an interesting result.  Maybe their waiting to see which "winner" will slip them an extra $50 as a tip.

I never see any of those messages.  I use Gixen for sniping, a free service that works very reliably.  Or it's like $6 per year for Gixen Mirror, a redundant service that double bids in case the first one fails.  You set it and forget it.

I would never take a chance on bidding live.  Too many variables - clocks not synced up, power failure, loss of connectivity at exactly the wrong moment, human error, etc.

[WolverineX]

On 2/20/2022 at 3:06 PM, gadzukes said:

Look what it says in the green.

Yes, I have seen that before and I won the book eventually. 

[gadzukes]

On 2/20/2022 at 10:06 PM, Wolverinex said:

Yes, I have seen that before and I won the book eventually. 

I won too.  Just thought it was weird.  Never seen it before and I've done a lot of sniping.

[theCapraAegagrus]

That's a new one.

[letsgrumble]

On 2/20/2022 at 3:06 PM, gadzukes said:

Look what it says in the green.

[kav]

On 2/20/2022 at 12:06 PM, gadzukes said:

Look what it says in the green.

[Sigur Ros]

On 2/20/2022 at 6:10 PM, B2D327 said:

Never seen that one. I have gotten the “sorry, you missed out on this item” immediately after putting in a sniper bid only to get an email saying “congratulations, you won” seconds later.

Ditto.  Mine wasn't at the last second though and I was hoping someone would outbid me as I sort of lost interest.

Refreshed, got that message and was kind of relieved I lost.   Then I had an email saying "pay now"....

[gadzukes]

On 2/21/2022 at 9:43 PM, letsgrumble said:

Is that Thing 1 or Thing 2

[kav]

On 2/22/2022 at 2:31 PM, Sigur Ros said:

Ditto.  Mine wasn't at the last second though and I was hoping someone would outbid me as I sort of lost interest.

Refreshed, got that message and was kind of relieved I lost.   Then I had an email saying "pay now"....

wait what

[rabidwolf]

Yes that happened to me a couple of days ago

first time in 20 plus years 

[Sigur Ros]

On 2/23/2022 at 12:00 AM, kav said:

wait what

I'll reword the whole thing.  Sometimes my comments don't make sense after I actually see them typed out.

I had bid on some books recently.  Kinda regretting it but whatever, if I get them, I get them.  So I refreshed the screen at the last second and it said something like "sorry you missed out on this item" (or something similar).  I honestly don't remember.  Anyway, I got an email (or maybe a notification) saying I won and could pay now.  Went back and refreshed the page and sure enough the message changed to "congratulations".