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 Post subject: eBay snipe tool
PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:53 pm 
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Anyone have any experience with one of these? Any suggestions as to which is best? Are there any differences? I have never used one, but am about to buy some stereo equipment on eBay and am thinking about giving this a try.

For those of you who may ask what is a "Snipe Tool", this is something that bids at the last second or so. In theory you should not have to do this because you are supposed to put in your max bid on an item and eBay will automatically up your bid (to your max) if someone outbids you. But people tend to NOT put in their max and then you have to camp out and watch the clock tick down and then try to outbid someone at the last second. These tools do this for you.

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I have used esnipe with good results.

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Auctionsniper is the best I have seen.

Yes EBAY has chnaged a great deal in the last year or so. Now people who bid before the last 5 mins only waste their time and raise the price.

As for the max bid thing, that still works fine and automatically. All the snipe software ask for the same thing, your max bid. If someone else is also sniping the auction and has a higher max bid you will still loose. Just as you would/do with regular biding and your maxx bids.

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I've been using esnipe for a couple years with no problems. Have it set to bid with six seconds to go and never had it "miss" a bid.


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I use eSnipe to bid four seconds before the auction end. It has been reliable for me. They were giving away one month of free use when I signed up, so you might want to see if they are still doing that.

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HammerSnipe works fine. They do issue system announcements when their system is down or if they are having problems (sometimes due to issues at ebay). While they do admit to missing some bids now and then, they do seem to be up front when a system problem arises. They are at www.hammersnipe.com.


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I have been very pleased with auctionsniper


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I use the paid version of hammersnipe since I buy a lot with a 3 sec bid. Never had it miss. Free version has a little longer bid time and limits # of bids (3 a week?) for a flat 8.95 a month I get unlimited # of bids.

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I've used auction sentry - http://www.auction-sentry.com/ - for at least two years now. They just changed their product naming, but I believe what I have is the equivelent of the standard version, the deluxe being a new product with additional features which I don't need anyway.

Everything I buy on ebay is through this tool. It sees quite a bit of use. I typically use a 4-second bid time and it's never failed. It monitors for version updates and notifies you when they're available. All upgrades, including major version changes are free.

I didn't really shop around for alternatives. Honestly, I got my first version "free". I liked it so much that I ended up buying a legitimate version. It's worth far more than the $15 I paid for it.


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Chuck Frank wrote:
I use the paid version of hammersnipe since I buy a lot with a 3 sec bid. Never had it miss. Free version has a little longer bid time and limits # of bids (3 a week?) for a flat 8.95 a month I get unlimited # of bids.


Do you truly save a hundred bucks a year though?

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