Auction Snipers
Just wanted to get everyone's opinion of using auction sniper services/programs are you for/against it? and which service do you use, if any?
personally, I use gixen.com -- 100% free and snipes at the last second.
personally, I use gixen.com -- 100% free and snipes at the last second.
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Do you pay for that $6/year mirror service? Seems like a good deal. How often has it failed for you? My snipestreet only fails when I forget to update my password when I change it lol
I actually wish there was a way to stop snipe bidding. It doesnt make it a true auction. well in a perfect world I guess....
Isn't a true auction an auction that takes place in a physical space with people bidding in a strict time frame that ends up when nobody can beat the highest bid? If so, eBay auctions are not true auctions. Maybe Online auction?
Yeah
im against setting up a snipe bid. I mean if you actually want to put
in the effort to do it yourself then thats great but having a program
bid for you is dirty.
I think the point with snipe bidding is also to avoid excessive shill bidding or useless bid high jacking.
Seriously, setting a program to bid is, to me, equal as setting an auction on eBay (which is kind of a programmed auction if you think about it). It ends in seven days, I'll bid in seven days minus 5 seconds, but I need to control the precious time of my life meanwhile, so I set my bid and don't lose further time about this thing I might win or not. Nothing will convince me that snipe bidding is not fair. Time is too precious for me, and snipe bidding save me an astronomical amount of free time. Manual and automatic bidding are the same to me, I don't see one of them more virtuous.
probably not the cheapest, but so far it worked for me
A REAL auction doesn't end until the bidding stops. If eBay ever realizes that, they'll make a shitload more money, and nobody will be able to bitch about sniping being unfair.
Lord knows why they got rid of it, but auctions used to extend 5 minutes if there was a last-second bid with this option.
I'm not sure if it's 'fair' or not, but it's basically the same thing as setting your max bid through ebay. It's just invisible to other bidders, I suppose.
Oh, and I've used gixen with no troubles for about a year and a half.
I was using myibay.com, the plugin for firefox. I've had it work and I've had it not even put the snipe in. If Gixen is reliable maybe I'll give that a shot. I just feel uncomfortable handing out my ebay username and password.
I've used myibay for well over 1000 snipes with 100% success rate (success as in my bid was registered, not as in I won the item in every case). Free and works great for me!!!
It was just the first thing that came up in my search a couple years ago. I've loved it ever since.
I was using myibay.com, the plugin for firefox. I've had it work and I've had it not even put the snipe in. If Gixen is reliable maybe I'll give that a shot. I just feel uncomfortable handing out my ebay username and password.
I've used myibay for well over 1000 snipes with 100% success rate (success as in my bid was registered, not as in I won the item in every case). Free and works great for me!!!
Are there factors that will prevent the snipe from going through that may have been on my end? Such as; having prior bids in or making the remaining seconds for the snipe too low? I have only used it a handful of times and am unfamiliar with anything that may be a known no-no. It's relatively new territory to me.