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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
Recommendations, please!
Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭

    www.vrane.com

    TorinoCobra71

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    auctionsniper.com - Preussen
    "Illegitimis non carborundum" -General Joseph Stilwell. See my auctions
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,525 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm an auctionsniper fan. Granted, I haven't tried the others, but I don't fix what "ain't" broke.
  • BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
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    I can recommend vrane as well.
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    I had been and no longer will be an auctionsniper fan. I had a snipe programmed in for 3 seconds left in an auction and it put the bid in minutes before the auciton ended. It's been doing that over the past 6 months. I hardly use a snipe program anyway, but when I want it to work, it hasn't even come close. It's funny you ask this because madmarty and I were just talking about this earlier today.
  • I've used esnipe for years and never dissapointed. www.esnipe.com
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  • vrane works for me!
  • How do you feel about giving your eBay username and password out to just anybody. This is what has kept me from ever using a sniping program or service. Actually, I used one that I downloaded, once. Then I immediately changed my password on eBay.

    What do you feel about giving out that information and do you change your password right after a snipe?

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you are anticipate sniping a lot or sniping higher value items, Phantombidder is the most economical -- $9 per month for unlimited snipes.

    Auctionsniper fees are 1% of value per snipe, 25 cent min, $5 max. If you win just 2 $500+ items with Auctionsniper, you are already behind Phantombidder.
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How do you feel about giving your eBay username and password out to just anybody. >>

    Well, not just anybody. Most of the services mentioned in this thread are well-established commercial ventures with published privacy policies and proven track records. It wouldn't make good business sense to have your password information in a hijackable format.

    Even if your eBay information got out, what's the worst that could happen? Your account might be used to bid on a bunch of stuff, but you still don't have to pay. Or your account might be used to fraudulently list a bunch of items -- troubling, sure -- but you can unravel it. Peoples' accounts get hijacked all the time from scammers. If a scammer wanted to do this, it's much easier to awaken an army of zombies to send out phish-spam, and take over the accounts of the suckers who fall for it than to break into a sniper's website.

    Still, if one does a "real" business on eBay, it's prudent to use a separate account for your sniping and buying than the one you use for selling. That way, worst comes to worst, your selling account remains intact, and you can just NARU the buying account and start a new one.
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Still, if one does a "real" business on eBay, it's prudent to use a separate account for your sniping and buying than the one you use for selling. That way, worst comes to worst, your selling account remains intact, and you can just NARU the buying account and start a new one. >>



    Very wise suggestion.

    I have done this but not intentional.


    Rookie Joe
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,230 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How do you feel about giving your eBay username and password out to just anybody. This is what has kept me from ever using a sniping program or service. Actually, I used one that I downloaded, once. Then I immediately changed my password on eBay.

    What do you feel about giving out that information and do you change your password right after a snipe?

    Jonathan >>



    Jonathan,
    Giving your ebay info to

    << <i>just about anybody >>

    and giving your ebay username and
    password to a sniping firm are two different things.
    The former I'd never do. The latter I have no problem with it until I hear enough reports of people getting
    ripped by their Online Auction Snipe Provider™.
    For now, I'd be more concerned about losing my credit info from somebody hacking into Amazon or any other site that
    has my credit info.
    Just my opinion.
    -Gil

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • hahah, thanks Mr.Eureka.

    This thread will help.
  • I do not use one, if I want something I just bid what I'm willing to pay and if I get it great if I don't no biggie.......I'll find one somewhere else...

    but here is a link to a Free Snipping Program



    AL

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