is the Audiogon auction clock accurate?

I had a similar experience. In the last minute, several bids came through. The winning bid, or what I thought was the winning bid, was below my maximum bid. Obviously, I was upset and let Audiogon know it via email. I couldn’t understand how my bid was not the winning bid. This was my first (and probably last) auction experience. The next day, I realized that I had, in fact, won the auction but the announcement just took a little time to find me. So, to your question, the timer appeared to work accurately during the last minute. However, I wouldn’t wait until then if you really want the item. Use the "maximum bid" function.

Something went haywire somewhere. I had the winning bid for a few days and was only outbid in the last few minutes. I wanted to increase mine but it was too late as the auction suddenly ended "early". Today I saw that I had received an automated email from Audiogon that the auction had ended at 6:02 but I was still trying to bid at approximately 6:20 and that's after having refreshed my browser multiple times to make sure the countdown clock was accurate. So, it would seem that as far as bidding, it's more of a gentleman's club over here which is fine. But it also seems that the Audiogon auction system is less than robust, and a bit more opaque which is disheartening. Thanks for the reply and Happy New Year.

This is exactly why I never get involved in Audiogon auctions, the system doesn't work, isn't fair and is not transparent.

" Something went haywire somewhere. I had the winning bid for a few days and was only outbid in the last few minutes."

Nothing went haywire. Its bidding strategy called sniping. Snipers watch the auction very closely, and then bid on the item at the last second. The rationale is if they wait until the very end, the item won't get bid up as high because there's no time for anyone to react.

From now on, get a link to an atomic clock, and go by that. Don't use the clock in your computer.