25 Apr
2003
25 Apr
'03
8:40 a.m.
I bid on a NeXT cube in 2001. I had exactly the same bid as the
winning bidder and the item display had the same bid time down to the
second. I questioned ebay about it. They gave me the bid time down to
.01 second. I missed the bid by .01 second.
James
steve wrote:
--- Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com> wrote:
So what happens when you and I both use the same
sniping service on the same
auction for the same bid?
The bid placed earlist would win (well, assuming no
other higher bids were placed). You tell esnipe
exactly when to bid (its accurate to a few seconds).
No two ebay bids occur at exactly the same time, even
with a sniping service. So even if we both tell
esnipe to bid 5 seconds before the auction ends. One
may be placed 5.01 seconds and the other perhaps 4.99
seconds before the auction ends. Depends how the
server ques us up...
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