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name-king · Jan 10, 2009

No probs... Congrats Rob!!!!

stender · Jan 10, 2009

Bad idea saturday night finishes imho. I would of gone a fair bit higher but the pub beckoned.

foz · Jan 10, 2009

Time stamp on your post is 11:05 PM. That's what counts.

name-king · Jan 10, 2009

foz said:
Time stamp on your post is 11:05 PM. That's what counts.

Fair enough........ :lol:

foz · Jan 10, 2009

stender said:
Bad idea saturday night finishes imho.

What day and time do you think would be best for the future.

retired_member16 · Jan 10, 2009

foz said:
What day and time do you think would be best for the future.

Any day other than Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I would have gone higher too but was also down the local.

rob · Jan 10, 2009

name-king said:
well, server time on AcornDomains is +1:05 GMT.... although it says +1..

At the bottom of the page it says "All times are GMT. The time now is 11:47 PM." etc... have used that before for sniping

Skinner · Jan 10, 2009

This is why I lurk on ebay looking for deals that end during major sporting events and fri/sat nights and sunday mornings

I debated £400 at 21:59 but I don't like the letters much, in hindsight I could have flipped to at least 2-3 people on this thread alone, where as now Rob has it its going no where

Skinner · Jan 10, 2009

Rob the time at the bottom is 2 minutes SLOWER than Acorn posting times tho.

rob · Jan 10, 2009

dunno about that:
All times are GMT. The time now is 11:50 PM.

a cut n paste

Skinner · Jan 11, 2009

On mine they show slightly different sometimes, sometimes they show exact sometimes there -1 minute, once was -2 minutes. I assume its down to processing time, so if the form starts processing at 11:45:54 and finishines at 11:45:24 then there will be 1 minute difference the same for longer processes.

I havent really paid attention to it.

name-king · Jan 11, 2009

foz said:
Auction Criteria:
Deadline - 10th Jan. 2009 22:00 GMT.

We can debate all we want..... but in actual fact I had won it in real time. I realised to late that the acorndomain time is +1:00 GMT (as stated below in the footer) and adding the +5mins server processing time the time stamp shows my bid was placed at 23:05.

But whatever happens, happens for the best as they say it because, now thinking about it (and honestly not saying that because I lost), I really don't know what I would have done with it, if I had won, apart from parking it!

Totally agree with Skinner, not the best letters/ combination of letters, thus I think it will take a really long time to resell to an end-user. So don't think its a quick return investment. I'd probably get a lot more money in interest (even with the recent rate cuts!) by leaving this money lying around at NatWest!

Anyone else have an opinion they wanna share?

rob · Jan 11, 2009

name-king said:
We can debate all we want..... but in actual fact I had won it in real time. I realised to late that the acorndomain time is +1:00 GMT (as stated below in the footer) and adding the +5mins server processing time the time stamp shows my bid was placed at 23:05.

I think thats the danger with sniping, you win some and lose some and overall it all balances out. I just hope I dont miss a cracker due to this!!

foz · Jan 11, 2009

Golden rule. Bid early and high. If at the last stage a few quid is the deciding factor, then you only have yourself to blame for missing out.

name-king · Jan 11, 2009

rob said:
I think thats the danger with sniping, you win some and lose some and overall it all balances out. I just hope I dont miss a cracker due to this!!

Absolutely........
Agree 100%.

Please don't be offended/ disheartened by my post.

All the best and I hope you achieve as high as possible... the sky's the limit!

I like your optimism!