EBay Automatic Bidding Software Knowledge Base
How to beat ebay's automatic bidding and other sniping softwares? Hi all, I'm new to ebay. Appreciate some general advice. I have sold a few things. Never bought. Now there's an item ending in 2 hours. I want to use manual sniping to try and win it. Ie i will sit there and in the last 3 sec i will put in my bid. I have read about ebay's automatic bidding and other sniping softwares. I have a few questions. say the item is now $8 and i need to enter 8.50 or more. Bidding history says that the highest bidder is using automatic bid meaning he has set a price that is higher than 8.50. So my question is that if I bid in the last 3 sec, will ebay's automatic bid always be fast enough to let him win as long as his bid is higher than mine? also, other sniping softwares i heard about, do they just put in a single bid in the last 15 sec? or is there a feed bak where the software knows that in the last 4 sec something is higher and it will bid again? basically which is faster? manaul/ebay automatic or sniping softweare? im gonna try and sit here to do it manually. any advice would be appreciated. thanks
Question about Ebay bidding- I was bidding on an item with no bids and I've put a reserve much higher then the starting bid was - just in case someone will start bidding on it as well. This was 4 min before the ending of the auction. I was refreshing page every few seconds, and up to the last 16 seconds there were no bids, and I was the sole bidder with the starting price (not even my reserve!) When I refreshed the screen (with 16seconds to go) I was outbid! I don't understand how this happend - because my reserve was much, much higher then the starting bid and unless this other person was bidding as well and put his reserve higher then mine - then the automatic bidding would have picked it up first, but there were no bids till the last 16 seconds! I was really pi***d off, and I would like to know how they do it? Is there a software somewhere specially for ebay? How does it work? Because I am sure that was not coincedence/ Thanks!
What is the best tool for buying on Ebay? What is the best software or website for buying on Ebay with the lowest price possible by placing automatic bids at the last moment? Please tell me about a program that you have used and what the advantages of this program or website is. Thanks!
Ebay ..automatic bidders? sometimes when i bid of something i am automatically outbid ... i have heard there is a program/software you can use that will automatically bid for you .. if your not able to be at home to do it .... can someone send me the link for it please xxxx
How many Christmas presents are too many? So this is my wife's account and she posted a similar question but didn't give important details or answer questions about those details. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am4zG4sTj3vqc5KN8iWE9wDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120112100822AAr5S3k For religious reasons she doesn't celebrate Christmas or any other holidays. The kids don't celebrate all the holidays and we don't do much on some of the ones we do celebrate. She will not participate at all so I have to handle everything. I'm working full time with a long term back injure so it gets to be a bit much making a big deal or doing much about all the holidays. I have decided to let Christmas be their one big holiday. So back to the original question, how many are too many. We have 2 boys that were 4.5 and 6 years old this Christmas. My wife made a huge ordeal over the number of presents but I would like to qualify what they were and what they cost. She counted christmas morning and there were over 100 presents (somewhere in the neighborhood of 120). Total cost of it all was perhaps 400$ bought bit by bit starting in Sep.. Here are some examples. About 20 very small lego type sets off ebay for about 1$ each. They were maybe 2"x3" plastic bags with no packaging, maybe 30-40 parts ea. and instructions. I scanned the image from the instructions, blew it up and printed it and glued it to a larger box (I was able to get many identical boxes at work for free). In effect it was a poor mans version of buying a real lego set where you get this nice big box with a pretty picture, and inside there is this tiny bag with a small number of parts (it made helped make it look like a lot to the kids though). perhaps 20 wooden thomas the train cars and engines off ebay. they were knockoffs, not real thomas and average price was under 2$ ea. They were individually wrapped. 2 large thomas wooden train style sets (again, cheap knockoffs) for 20$ ea. Many trio block sets (got them at maybe 75% or more off retail). Perhaps 2 12$ sets, 5 8$ sets, 5 5.60$ sets, 4 2.40$ sets and 4 .80$ sets. The trio sets all together was their big present (no game systems, laptops, ride ons, or other big or expensive toys). 2 nerf guns at 16$ ea. 10$ for nerf ammo. 1600 piece Lego's (real Lego's) from walmart for 30$ a lego type block table for 15$ and a laptop type lego table for 12$ a hot wheels garage for 24$ That about covers anything over 10$ or any large groups of toys. They probably got a dozen assorted toys in the 5-10$ range. They probably got a couple of dozen more items in the couple of dollars or less range (puzzles, small packs of stickers, various charms off ebay, ebay knockoff angry birds etc). Fyi some of the things like the angry birds may seem expensive, but they were actually quite cheap. My strategy on ebay was to bid very low on perhaps 10-20 auctions at a time, and at best winning 1 or 2 but at very low prices. I probably bid on hundreds of auctions over months (automatic software snipe bid right at the end) to get the wooden trains, angry birds, lego type sets dirt cheap. The kids were constantly being told, no you can not get that toy, no you can not get a happy meal, no we can not eat at McDonald's etc. for a couple of months before Christmas and were told it was because we were saving for a good christmas. I know its a little overboard, but its the only holiday that much effort is put into. We didn't even celebrate their birthdays till one of their friends had a birthday party, and we still only make a small deal out of it. I keep saying we but I mean me as she doesn't participate in any way. I also invested many hours of my time bargain hunting (checking deal sites, scouring amazon, ebay, and sites like mattel and hasbro direct, not going out shopping) to try and get them the best I could cheap. Is it too much? To me it seems from a dollar perspective, I didn't spend more than many other people (hearing about some getting nintendo ds's and lap tops and such it seems like I spent quite a bit less than say for instance many of the parents at my work). I did invest a lot of my personal time to maximize what I got for the money (leisurly at the computer here and there over months). Statistically the average black friday shopper spent $398.62 on black friday weekend for 2011 and that's about how much I spent in total. Is she right that I am out of control and that is way too excessive? Did I spend way too much money? I should also mention, they typically don't get large or expensive toys through out the year at all. They don't really even get a 10$ toy but maybe a couple of times a year. They do get a few things for birthdays now that we started celebrating them but nothing near like christmas. As far as if we can afford it, we have different ideas about budgeting that don't seem to work well together so we can not afford 400$ for anything (can afford but don't properly budget). We have nothing financed (even the car is paid for), and no credit cards but we do have substantial student load debt (they garnish 15% and take my tax returns). 400$ is a weeks take home pay on a good week. I spread the cost out over several months to minimize the impact.
What program can schedule automatic mouse clicks? I buy a lot of auctions on Ebay for my work, and I want to schedule clicks (bid and confirm bid) a few seconds before the auctions end (to lower the winning price). So it has to be at a specific time and in a specific place on the screen. What software can do this? Thanks!! I don't want to use automatic sniping tools because they charge for each auction and I have to give them my login and password.
Do you have any cool EBay tricks to share? I'd specifically like to know if searches can be automated? I'm constantly searching for things on EBay, typing in the same search criteria over and over, on a very hit-or-miss basis. Does anyone know of any software, website, or maybe even a feature built into EBay that will run a large number of keyword-based searches for me periodically and automatically? I want to be notified (email and/or text msg) as soon as any of the many things I've been searching for appears, most especially the harder-to-find, seldom-listed ones. Also, do you know of any other neat tricks for optimizing one's EBay use? I'm exclusively a Buyer right now, but Sellers' (ethical) tricks would be appreciated as well. Right now, the best Buyer's trick I know of is the automatic sniper; I use Snipestreet to place my maximum bids just before the end of the auction. It's free, and has never failed me yet, unless of course I didn't bid high enough. Anyone have any input on Snipestreet, or any other sniping service? If so, could you please include info on fees? Thanks Kim, I had never noticed that feature before. I just tried it, and it looks as if it will be very helpful. I'm assuming it will run the search for you automatically - if so, do you have any idea how often, and can you specify that somewhere? In the meantime, I found a pretty cool site called Auctionsleuth that will run up to 200 searches for you at any frequency you want, even every minute I think, for as long as you keep the search active. They must have some pretty powerful servers. Definitely try using one of the bid snipers - it's great never having to worry about missing the closing of an auction, or staying up late just to bid on something. Plus, it's nice to not let anyone know you're interested in something ahead of time. Just put in the highest price you're willing to pay, and wait for an email telling you if you won or not. If you lose, no problem - it was more than you wanted to pay anyway, and it keeps you from bidding more than you "should" - BTDT :)
How to beat ebay's automatic bidding and other sniping softwares? Hi all, I'm new to ebay. Appreciate some general advice. I have sold a few things. Never bought. Now there's an item ending in 2 hours. I want to use manual sniping to try and win it. Ie i will sit there and in the last 3 sec i will put in my bid. I have read about ebay's automatic bidding and other sniping softwares. I have a few questions. say the item is now $8 and i need to enter 8.50 or more. Bidding history says that the highest bidder is using automatic bid meaning he has set a price that is higher than 8.50. So my question is that if I bid in the last 3 sec, will ebay's automatic bid always be fast enough to let him win as long as his bid is higher than mine? also, other sniping softwares i heard about, do they just put in a single bid in the last 15 sec? or is there a feed bak where the software knows that in the last 4 sec something is higher and it will bid again? basically which is faster? manaul/ebay automatic or sniping softweare? im gonna try and sit here to do it manually. any advice would be appreciated. thanks
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