If you use ebay very much you should check out this program. http://www.powersnipe.com?upartner=39797 It's pretty handy and keeps you from raising your max bid at the last second.
Me too, but with mixed results, as my bids are routinely too low! Damn my bottom-feeding mentalities!!
Can you input the max you would bid for something? If not what if 2 people with these programs used it on the same item lol.
Thats my concern. What ever happened to old fashioned auctions? Do I hear 100? ...going once, going twice...SOLD! Now we got technology getting between the "Do I hear 100?" and the word "SOLD". Anyway, I think they charge pretty cheap.
EBAY should extend the length of the auction 10 minutes when a new bid is recieved. That would end all that snipe crap.
Excellent idea. It would be very simple for them to modify the software to automatically extend the length of any auction an additional 5 or 10 minutes after each bid is received. If nobody bids during that time period, then the auction is ended. If it gets another bid, then it lasts another 5 or 10 minutes. "Snipe hunting" would become extinct.
I've found lately on some car related items (hell, even cars themselves) being offered on ebay, you can get better prices elsewhere.
Then I'd quit using eBay. Like anything else, you study the rules, then figure out how to win legally.
Yeah, you put in your max and it bids that in the last few seconds. If two people use the same program the person with the higher max bid wins. If ebay changed their setup so it constantly extended auctions I'd quit using it too. That's the only way you get the good deals.
I don't see what good this would do?? The snipe bid would keep extending the auction till the predetermined max bid was reached of the highest sniper. This would then force higher end of bid prices ultimately. I'm wondering if ebay sellers are using snipe software to submit schill bids for what they hope to sell an item for???
