Why is sniping so difficult this year

Missed 2 LtD deions for 350k the past 2 days on the auction block... both of them were gone before I could even click buy now. So upsetting... is there any way to speed up my auction block or is it just whoever gets the random luck of having a faster menu at the moment.

I think there are a couple reasons.....

EA is giving out less and rewarding less. That means more people are looking to improve their teams through the auction house. The presents that everyone chased after were second-hand thrift store garbage. They seem to be lowering the OVR of the players they are giving out and increasing the number that are BND. Giving us an 88 BND is completely useless. An 88 BND is not useable in the line up or in a set. If people were smart, they should hold all their BND cards and cause them extra storage load so they give out less of them!

There is now some type of mobile APP. It seems like there are a lot of people using this mobile APP. I have been involved in bids where the person bidding against me has increased the bid by more than what I can increase the bid using the console. I am not sure why, but it seems that the mobile APP has an unfair advantage over the console because they are not restricted by the amount they can increase a bid, like those of us using the console. They are also more easily able to bid at the last minute. There is a noticeable amount of last-minute bidding happening. I do not have the mobile APP, so I can not tell you if it a sort feature, or a notification feature, or something else.

While you can't technically speed it up, I have noticed if you are working the AH trying to snipe for a period of time you'll get a slight lag or delay when you click and try to buy something - I've resolved this in the past by restarting my console.  After doing so it seems to refresh at "normal" speeds and the delay is gone.

everyone is using the companion app simple as that

Also the mobile APP crashes every once in a while and you can barely post one card.

Jmoney917917 said:

Missed 2 LtD deions for 350k the past 2 days on the auction block... both of them were gone before I could even click buy now. So upsetting... is there any way to speed up my auction block or is it just whoever gets the random luck of having a faster menu at the moment.

EA has not been monitoring/banning coin seller bots

They are too focused on banning people for buying expensive cards when doing Team Diamonds

Geo7030 said:

everyone is using the companion app simple as that

no way. The app sucks major ass compared to years prior. It's borderline unusable.