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After my two remaining bids that are riding out there are "sniped," I'll go back to garage and estate sales. It's a machine-generated steal against those not so techno savvy, or those who want to honestly just want to get a good buy of an item someone else no longer needs. Seriously, if sniping is how it is done now, I don't need to be there. Never mind that I limited my purchases to an average 10/year.
You've just given me all the reasons I need to cancel my ebay account after 5 years.
I want them to accurately fire a whole magazine of them, as many as necessary to win at a price as low as possible.Īnyway, I did win this item. That's better than nothing but it's not what I thought sniping would be. They only enter one bid for me, at 8 seconds to go. Am I all washed up here? Are there sniping services that would do it my way instead of the way JustSnipe has just done it. This seems to me to have several advantages, but I can't really describe them. Thus, I'm not at the mercy of the EBay proxy bidding system, but instead am at the mercy of FinalSniper's. It then monitors the winning bid, and at any time that someone else squeezes in a higher bid, it ups again.
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At one minute to go, before the end of the auction, the FinalSniper software logs in to EBay, finds out the item's current price, and bids one increment higher. I would really like it if my sniping program would actually proxy-bid for me. But what about all those auctions I've seen, where a winning bidder actually increments up his bid ten or fifteen times, all within the last minute? Isn't that some kind of sniping program? And yes, that does helpfully defeat nibblers.
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I mean, it's nice that my personal maximum will now be placed at the last possible moment (8 seconds, in the free JustSnipe service), rather than hours beforehand.
I don't really see a real advantage to that. Our server will place your maximum bid at the last seconds and let ebay proxy systems do the job. What is the bid amount that JustSnipe place for me When I really want something, especially that looks like it will have a lot of competition, I use JustSnipe and it's done well by me. It does well for me, but because it has to snipe further in advance than other services, there is a chance for someone to manually up their bid over you. Because my computer is up and connected all the time, I usually use JBidWatcher.
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People who aren't able to manually snipe because they're at work or asleep won't bother to bid at all, knowing they can't compete with the manual snipers, and that'll result it lower ending bids in many cases.īack to the original question. If they force manual sniping (with or without their new Real Time Countdown), they're going to cost themselves money. Sniping has been a part of eBay for years, and they're not going to stop that as long as they leave the hard end times. IMHO, unless they go the Yahoo!Japan route of automatically extending auction end times after last-second bids (which I could get behind), they'd be fools if they did. I used to use esnipe and discovered that eBay is updating their site to prevent use of these services. If you guys all add your specific comments, I'll see what I can do to create a spreadsheet of all of these (and more) that we can keep pinned at the top of the Marketwatch Forum, if the moderators think that's a good idea. Here are some services I've found listed here at FPN: (This has the disadvantage of making my participation have a "zero" feedback rating at EBay for starters, but that's fine with me, I'm a once-a-month guy, I only have 7 feedbacks right now anyway). I'm happy to create a new (fake) user name, linked to some new anonymous email account I only access once or twice and even a new EBay identity just for the snipe. In addition I will want not to have to enter too much personal information at the sniping site. I personally will want a system which is entirely off-line - I will likely turn my own computer off, and not have it running while the auction is ending, so it's all up to my sniper's computer and internet connection to make it work out for me. What's your favorite location / site / tool for sniping? Please feel free to comment about any aspect of sniping. I've read long and hard across the 'net, here at FPN and elsewhere, about the benefits and detriments to "sniping" an EBay auction.
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