[Cupid]

No, as mentioned above things changed, quite a few years ago now, so that auctions ending in the same second no longer cause issues.

[guardian]

[guardian]

Nowin 2022, do we still have to space out our bidding time? I would like to bid on 10-15 items from a single seller which all end exactly at the same time.

[tio200]

i ACTUALLY WROTE TO THE SELLER WHO HAD MULTIPLE AUCTIONS ENDING AT THE SAME TIME,(BEFORE gIXEN) AND HE ARRANGED TO HAVE THEM STAGGERED SO THAT THEY WOULD END SEVERAL MINUTES APART!

[Cupid]

The issue with placing many bids at the same time may not actually be related to the bids themselves... I think it more likely as a result of multiple logins happening in the same second... which, with a sniping service like Gixen, are also automated and occur a fixed time before the bid is to be placed.

In the fairly near future this issue is likely to go away entirely, when the next generation of the sniping software, currently being developed by Mario, goes live.

[thunderblue600]

Dear Forum
Delighted to have just signed up with a two year subscription - Gixen has come highly recommended and I admire the honesty & ethics.
Anyway I am a very active seller on Ebay with over 3200 positive ratings.
Also I actively buy more often collections/job lots.
Ironically it was the Ebay Concierge Team in Dublin that alerted me to 'sniping' as I lost out recently - I used to have my max bid ready - with no apparent competing bids - 5 seconds to go hit send and got outbid.
So if you cant beat them join then!
Anyway this seller - who I previously purchased 50 male erotic mags tonight has four listing ALL ending at 22.14 and 38 seconds!
Can ANYONE here explain this logic?
So I contacted Ebay and was totally up front about my intentions and could my account possibly be suspended if I bid for ALL four items using Snipe.
'NO ISSUE AT ALL We do not have a policy on this'
As an active seller I give 631 customers ( since Nov 2017 ) at least 2-3 mins between each listing.
Only wish I had discovered Gixen much sooner - it should so take out the stress of the last minute adrenaline explosion!

[Cupid]

Like I say, I doubt it is about when the bids are placed, but about when the login to their site happens.

That is not to say the bidding is not important to Ebay, it is... If you log in too many times without making any bids at all they don't like that either, or, at least, they have configured their software to take action aimed to limit account activity if that occurs too often.

I doubt you will manage to get any response regarding how their fraud protection measures are configured... but if you do, please share it, if not here, at least with Mario, as it could be useful in figuring out in what way Gixen might be configured/updated in order to avoid and/or reduce the occurrences of Ebay blocking accounts with Captchas.

[Curious user]

So...logging in and bidding 50 items in 1 second... from the same spot, looks less like a compromised account than logging in and bidding 50 times in one second from different spots. To ebay.

Gotcha. Seems weird, though! I'm gonna shoot them an email and see exactly what their policy is on "same second" bids.

[Cupid]

It is quite common for users to log in from different locations... via their mobile device network, at home, at work, on holiday, on a business trip, at the airport, while having a drink at the local bar, etc.

It isn't sniping that Ebay is trying to preclude, it never has been... if it were they could easily do so, and would have done it many years ago, had it ever been their aim.

Ebays measures are always directed at trying to avoid users accounts being compromised by third parties, especially via automated means... and from that point of view logging in multiple times from the same location at the same time looks far more like that sort of activity than it does normal interaction that users engage in every day.

[Curious user]

Not sarcasm. What I'm saying is that it is way more likely for a person to be able to bid on multiple items ending the exact same second FROM ONE LOCATION. Than it would to do the same thing from multiple locations.

I mean, multiple locations should be all it takes for eBay to raise a brow towards a user. I'm really surprised we get away with that at all, when using Sniping services!

It's WAYYYY more shady than bidding on 10 items ending the same second, all with the same location...

[Cupid]

Is that sarcasm, Curious user ?

If not I'm not with you, sorry.

[Curious user]

You'd THINK that eBay would be more concerned with "same time bids" coming from different locations! haha

[Cupid]

I suspect that it's more about logging in multiple times at the same time from the same location... Mirror and Main are different locations.

[Curious user]

I chickened out and deleted them all. How come there's no issue when the mirror bids at exactly the same time, every time?

[Curious user]

Is it still a thing, that eBay will suspend your account for bidding on things at the same exact time?

Because I just imported 175ish auctions with only about 4 or 5 different ending times lol

[Cupid]

I would advise having different Mirror offsets, from each other, too.

[modemmaverick]

I have decided just to snipe the 9 auctions that already have competing bids on them (24 of the auctions have no bid at this point). I have scheduled those 9 on gixen with different offset times, but I've noticed that the mirror has them all set to go at 6 (by default). Do I need to change the mirror auction settings so that it doesn't try and submit all 9 mirror bids at the same time?

[Cupid]

Since there are 15 offsets I would have thought it could only handle 15 auctions ending in the same second from the same Ebay account... but perhaps you know better if you have managed 23 already?

Obviously Gixen handles many Ebay accounts for many different users, so with multiple accounts the limit would be thousands before Gixen servers had any capacity issue.

[modemmaverick]

How many auctions ending at the same time can 1 gixen account paired with 1 ebay account handle? Trying to figure out how many ebay accounts I need to setup to handle 33 auctions.

[Cupid]

With a single Mirror subscription you can have as many snipes as you want, but unfortunately not if they all end in the same second.

That many auctions at the same second, I'm sure you agree, is quite exceptional.

The reason this restriction was added is because if you bid on auctions at the same second Ebay tends to suspend your account.

The best I can suggest, at this time, is that you set up multiple Ebay accounts to schedule more snipes. You won't get Mirror on the extra Ebay accounts, but do you really need it for this many auctions in one second very often?

Ebay are happy for you to set up multiple accounts, all you need is multiple email addresses, and those can also easily be set up for free in seconds.

You can use the same Paypal account for all of them, Ebay has no restriction on that either.

[modemmaverick]

I'm wanting to bid on about 33 auctions all ending at the same time by the same seller. I can schedule about 22 or 23 of them by changing the offset time on each one before the system tells me that I can't schedule this auction because I have another one ending at the same time. I thought when I bought my mirror subscription that the limit on number of bids was removed. I've searched through the FAQ but can't seem to find anything about this.

For example, I cannot add a bid for this auction (201695437191) to my bid list at this time.