Hi,

We have set up our own auction site at work which we use to auction off old equipment using HTML and ASP.

We have in the past had a simple problem that when an items auction has closed, say at 12:00, if someone still has the screen open for this item after it has closed and submits a bid at 12:02 - it stills takes it as being successful. The bid goes through to our back end which is an access database, and the user gets an email to say bid has been successful when really its not!

There's probably a really simple solution, but as Im not brilliant at ASP (im okish with HTML), any suggestions of how we could make sure the bids are no longer accepted beyond the closing time would be appreciated!!

Thanks.
Sarah

Obviously your ASP program has a bug in it, because it is doing the timing wrong. You just have to look at the program and correct the error. Presumably it looks at the time before sending the page, but should look at the time before accepting the bid.

Sorry, but there really isn't any other sort of answer that I can think of.