How can you find out why my bids were not made, and the status is "Bidding restrictions on your account". There are no reasons I can see that my bid shouldn't have been accepted. No one else bid, seller and myself live in the same country and postage was added to winning price. This is the second time I've tried and both times failed.

The most recent was 226684785114

Here is the full message from eBay on this:

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In the UK, bladed items can be sold and delivered only to customers aged 18 or older. As such, you'll need to verify your age. You may also need to confirm your age upon delivery. For more details, see our Knives policy:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/knives-policy?id=5047

Seems like a restriction based on a specific UK policy.
I believe UK users can complete the verification and get it approved. Until you do it, your bids (not just snipes) will be blocked by eBay for the same reason.
I don't have UK account, but I guess if you check the link above, you should be able to do the verification steps. I think it's just to verify you are over certain age or something similar.

Thanks for that. Annoyingly I have been age verified by ebay already. I'll check it out.

Once verified, make sure to test by placing a minimum bid directly on eBay.
If you can't bid manually on eBay, your snipe will not work too.