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Just minutes ago I bid on a player about 40 seconds before the action was to end by the buzzerbeater clock and I got a message that the auction was already over...but even by the clock on the site itself had not reached the end time yet.

Why would this happen? I have been looking for 3 weeks for the player I wanted, and when I found him I wasn't able to bid.

The clock on the screen is your computer's time, not server time.

odd because it's not in synch with my computer

It is actually ahead of my computer by almost a full minute, which, all things being equal, should have made it even more likely that I was on time.

Last edited by TigerUnderGlass at 3/7/2008 5:36:04 PM

Why did you wait so long to bid?

Why that matters I couldn't guess, but if you need to know I was working. I kept an eye on the clock on my computer, since bidding too early is pointless, and at about 2 minutes before the time the player was up (I was working on a file right up until then) I logged on to bid. Then I noticed that the clock displayed by the website was about a minute faster than mine so I was worried a bit until I saw that I still had more than half a minute left at that point. (and btw....every other transaction I have made in this game the clock displayed by this site has been pretty much bang on with aution expiries)

Does this answer you question?

looks like it does kinda matter, due to your computer clock being a little slow. Also, waiting until the last second to bid only extends the auction.

Did you even read my post?

Where did you get the idea that I was so stupid that I couldn't read enough to know that the auction is extended? I wasn't trying to slip in a bid under the wire, I was bidding as soon as I could and expected to have lots of time. If you had actually read my post you would get this, so please save your thinly veiled insults for when they make sense. I am neither new at the game not the trade market.

For every other auction the clock on the site has been exact. This is why I assumed it was the server clock. I have now been told that the clock being displayed is based on my clock, yet I don't quite get that since they are not synchronized.

Plus I have checked the clock on my machine since this happened and it is NOT SLOW.


What I need people to understand is that I am not here posting this because I am upset; losing out on a player is far from being that big a deal.

I am trying to ask a simple question. Why did this happen? I want to know to avoid it in the future.

I got one possible answer in that the clock displayed on the site is not the server clock, but this seems odd because it is not aligned with my clock either. Sooo... I am hoping figure out exactly what happened. Wanting an answer top a simple question hardly deserves such asinine replies.

If I sound cranky I apologize but my wife is 7 months pregnant and has been yelling at me for about 2 hours straight about god knows what, so I dare anyone here to keep irritation out of their voice under the same circumstances :)

i think my thinly veiled insult did make some sense as, you said:

I kept an eye on the clock on my computer, since bidding too early is pointless, and at about 2 minutes before the time the player was up

from that, it sounded like you usually wait until the last minute or two to bid (you wouldn't be all that rare in that), and if so, was confused why your or anyone would do that.

as for the time, the clocks are different. the one on the website doesnt sink to your computer, it sinks to their webserver which sinks to some external source. BB time is accurate to almost the second compared to say, the official us time website:

(http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java)

Your local computer prob sinks to a server at work and depending on how often it sinks to the your network time, and how accurate that network time is, explains why their might be a slight difference.

If I sound cranky I apologize but my wife is 7 months pregnant

Sincere congratulations :)

Many thinks can go wrong in the last minute... next time do not wait so long :)

PS: I read all your posts.

If you read it then you would realize, as I have explained twice now, that I did not wait by choice, but by necessity. If I had lost out because I could not get there on time then I wouldn't have made a thread. The thread exists because I was pretty sure I did make it on time but was not able to bid anyways.

I see. I think you ahave simply misunderstood what I meant by too early. The last time befoer this I could have logged on would have been about 20-25 minutes before the auction. I was hurrying to try and finish what I was doing in time to bid, but felt that there was no point bidding on my last login because I simply would have been outbid anyways.

You are right when you say there is no point waiting until the last 2 minutes to bid... unless that was the earliest you could get there, which I thought I had mentioned, but apparently not, since nobody seems to have caught that ;)



All of which I repeat is irrelevant, because EVEN IF I HAD WAITED UNTIL THE LAST 2 MINUTES I should have had time to bid.



Now what you are saying about the clock is exactly what I originally thought, so now I am back to square one. The BB clock is what I was going by when I said I had made it in time.