Auction Timer Inaccurate

riceboysleeps • 19 October 2021 at 2:08 PM

I've had this problem several times: I try to bid at ~5 seconds before the auction is over, and I get a message saying that the auction is already closed. I refresh the page multiple times in the last minute of the auction to try and prevent the timer from being inaccurate, but it still happens and it's very annoying. I've lost several auctions that I really wanted because of it. If there's any way of fine-tuning that, that would be great. Thanks.

snowywinter • 19 October 2021 at 11:29 PM

@riceboysleeps
There are only two times a delay occurs on my end.
1-a My internet is being slow
1-b One of the devices are being slow
If both are working fine, there isn't a delay on the timer.

2 I've done any action that causes the timer to no longer be active. (powering down the computer, going to too many other websites.) For whatever reason it happens, I find that refreshing the page is the best option to have the most accurate timer.
(This can cause the timer to be off by seconds or hours.)

Because of my own mental & physical latency, I give myself a certain lead time. (What people see as me bidding at X time, is actually lots of pre-prep. I move at the speed of sloth. Imagine the DMV in Zootopia.)
If you know it's always five seconds late for you, then I suggest trying to put your bid in "10 seconds" ahead of when you want to.

I'm not saying you haven't found a glitch, just sharing my own observations.

riceboysleeps • 20 October 2021 at 11:25 PM

@snowywinter these are good ideas, thanks. I'll give myself more of a lead time. Hopefully it'll be sufficient that I can win the auctions that I really want to win. Man, I dislike auctions...