How many are you folks using snipe program to bid ebay lots?

jcping

I tried it first time today and won the lot.

I set the snipe time to 8 seconds and ebay shows the bid is in 8 seconds before closing (not even a second lost with a T-1 line).

Russ

Software is for wussies, no head rush with it.

Russ, NCNE

Bear

Im with Russ, let the old adrenalin guide your hand on the controls.

LucyBop

No software is used overhere, when you get sniped by the HepKitty, you REALLY get snipped by the HepKitty!

prooflike

I dont use sniping software either.

Dog97

If I'm away from my puter I use the auto snipe. You can always tell because my autosnipe shoots @ 10 seconds and I snipe @ 1-2 seconds from closing.

jcping

I have too many meetings so that for the lots that I want, I need to place my bids as late as I could. If I place bids too early, here is a senario that I saw it happened a year ago. With 3 accounts, a seller placed a lot for auction with account A. When folks placed their bids, seller used account B to placed a one million dollar bid to see what was the current highest bid and then retracted the bid with the reason that decimal point was forgot to type. Later on, used account C to place a bid which is equal to the hidden highest bid.

If I decide my max bid, I have nothing to lose if a program could help me to place the bid in the last second.

K6AZ

Hey Russ, guess I am a wuss. I use Auction Sentry, it works great.

LucyBop

<< <i>I use Auction Sentry, it works great. >>



No match for the HepKitty!

K6AZ

LOL Lucy, but then again I don't think I have bid on a Frankie in a couple of years.

remumc

I'm on a dial up at home, no good for sniping. I am also out of town sometimes. So if I want to snipe something, I use "the software". I've not been outsniped yet, but I have been out bid.

Regards,

Wayne

TommyB

I'm 46, have two small kids, and work in an operating room, I have enough stress. That is why I love Esnipe! Works great.

MacCoin

if I don't bid high you darn sniper always get my coin. whos software is under there

cosmicdebris

Same as Dog, If I will be there at the close of the auction I manual snipe otherwise it is either vrane or hammersnipe. I switch back and forth because they only give you 5 freebies a month.

Steve27

The adrenalin rush doesn't do it for me any more, so I use vrane.

BAJJERFAN

I like the "Stopwatch" snipe. I like that little rush you get when you know that somewhere someone is cursin you under their breath.

Petescorner

If the auction ends in the middle of the night, or during the day when I'm working, then I use auctionsniper.com. Otherwise, I do it the old fashioned way: I earn it!

wayneherndon

I use vrane. I put in my snipes as soon as I see the auction and then basically forget about. Sometimes I get surprised a week later when I win something.

WH

CarlWohlforth

I also use snipe software.

I like the rush of a manual snipe, but often forget to be around at the right time. Software is good for an absent minded guy like me

tgilliams

I really like "the manual snipe" but sometimes will use vrane. I need to be on a level playing field on highly bid coins(only).

bulloncoins

So...that's how you folks have taken those precious coins away from me in the last few seconds of the auction. This is why I read the things....I learn everyday from you guys! And I thought we all just sat there with our fingers on the bid button. The more I learn....The more naive I feel.

ah

Snipe software has it's good points and also
good to use when you need that edge.

Coppernicus

Sniping software? Who needs sniping software?!?

Linky Doo

Lakesammman

All the time now. Wasted too much time before.

paigowjohnny

I've used software a couple times...works like a champ...technology is wonderful.

The auctions I used it on ended smack in the middle of a weekend late at night, and I wasn't about to waste the weekend poised in front of my computer.

flaminio

I always snipe with software. Most times it's too inconvienent to be at the computer the exact moment the auction ends.

My favorite robo-snipe ever was for a coin I noticed while on vacation in Paris. I had stopped in a web cafe to check my email, and did a couple quick eBay searches. Found a coin I wanted, and the closing time was actually when I would be en route back. So, I surfed over to my robo-sniper and programmed in my bid. I won the coin at 35,000 feet .