Everyone one has seen it “Ended Auction” – maybe you won, maybe you didn’t and then the next thing you know – there is 15 seconds left on the auction.
So there is time for last moment bids to be registered on the server and for those bids to be transmitted back to your computers – the server will stop accepting bids with approximately 1.5 seconds left.
This does not mean that all bids placed before 2 seconds will reach the server in time and it does not mean that the occasional auction may come back to life. To understand this, it is important to know how countdown timers work. The countdown timer is a program running on your computer, your computer is also asking for bid updates almost 2x a second from our server. However, if you go to any auction site and have 3 computers side by side – all will show a slight difference in time. It is a very small difference but different nonetheless. The greatest chance for a timing error is if you leave your computer on 1 item for a long period of time and nobody has bid on it till the final seconds. In the absence of bids in the final 18 seconds that would update your timer – it is possible that the variation from actual time to the time on your screen could be several seconds. Easiest Fix: Refresh your Browser Screen.
Other variable may affect the performance and accuracy of your countdown timer. Heavy load on your CPU (running lots of programs or multiple windows), your browser (Bidazzled works fastest on Firefox), local Internet, hardware and many more. Please know that everything that can be done to ensure a rapid response from our server is done. Tests show that 99% of bidders receive updates within 1 second of placing a bid. If you encounter a lag or it is taking longer for a bid to be received – please refresh your screen. If the problem is not resolved – stop bidding (we do not want you to waste bids).
Please let us know if you have any questions.