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bid sniping software
Hello - new to seeking software to help me win at the last seconds of an auction. I lost one that was a heartbreaker this weekend. Please share your favorite software. Thank you.
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woodland_gnome
·1 year agoI now use and recommend a "snipe service" (rhymes with one of Santa's reindeer and kind of rhymes with another) to place your one true maximum bid about 6 seconds out; mine allows limited snipes for free (up to 4 wins per month) or several different pay plans if you are using it more frequently (or want a bit more reliability that comes with a "mirror server" in another location than the main server) and uses an eBay supplied API instead of the glitch user interface. It also captures any error message that eBay returns if the bid is unsuccessful, as opposed to you using the user interface where any such error message is overwritten when the countdown gets to 0 so you generally don't even see it much less be able to read it. There are other snipe services out there with their own plans, but we are not allowed to make unsolicited recommendations of particular ones.
BUT the important thing is to bid your TRUE maximum that you are willing and able to pay for that particular item as listed (don't forget to back out shipping etc.) WITHOUT REGARD to what others appear or don't appear to have bid. There is absolutely no need to figure out what others have or haven't bid or might bid* in determining your bid amount, since it ALREADY will have been figured into the price if you win.
*(other than to assume someone else will value the item about the same as you, so bid a bit ABOVE any round or roundish number you come up with to increase your chances of being on the winning side of what might have been a tie or a loss to someone else who knows this tip)
lady_madonna
Mentor1 year ago@frefr.l.8kkhmlkq
Highest bid wins, not the latest.
Just bid the most you are willing to spend.
rock.star
·1 year agoRemember it is the highest bid that wins not the last one.
If you are willing to bid more, then do so when you first bid.
No software needed.
jacbarcollectibles
Mentor1 year agoNo one here can make any recommendations on this subject. You will need to use Google to get information about available software. Some will be free and others may have a fee to use.