eBay Now Limiting Number of Snipes?

gemint · September 21, 2014 6:07AM

I've heard a lot of rumbling about eBay setting up their own sniping service (fee based of course). Also had seen problems with my sniping program over the past few weeks. I use bidding scheduler. Never had a problem over the years with it until lately. Today I got a message that eBay is now limiting snipes to maximum of 5 ending at the same time. The strange thing is this message only appeared when I tried to edit an existing snipe and not when I entered over a dozen via adding item number and max bid amount. If this is truly going into effect, I wouldn't want to have a $0.99 set break happening right now.

Has anyone else seen this warning message with their sniping program?

WhiteTornado · September 21, 2014 6:43AM

I used esnipe for over 10 years but not for quite a while, and I never have more than 5 snipes set up at once. Haven't seen any messages directly from esnipe, although I noticed on their site that they acknowledge recent connectivity issues with eBay servers. I recently switched to Gixen since it sounds like they have not had the recent problems that have plagued many other sniping services.

Did you get the message regarding snipe limitations from Bidding Scheduler?

RyanAdmirer · September 21, 2014 10:08AM

I use Gixen and haven't had any problems until tonight. I got a message "CANNOT BID - EBAY REQUIRES CAPTCHA VERIFICATION CODE" tonight. It's the first problem I've ever had with it.

I've read of others having issues too so yes, there must be something going on.

Stone193 · September 21, 2014 10:26AM

Very interesting John.

After reading, I just tried to add a snipe thru Gavel Snipe and couldn't - the screen goes white and that's it.

miwlvrn · September 21, 2014 10:31AM

I didn't have any troubles w/ gavelsnipe, today or other days.

If there is some sort of system change in place within ebay that prevents a certain number for some people, I wonder if it is possible to circumvent by using 2 different snipe accounts that have lead times off-set by a second or two? Obviously not bidding on the same item, but more like set a few items through gavelsnipe and a few through gixen, or something like that?

Stone193 · September 21, 2014 11:15AM

Just got my snipes thru OK with gavelsnipe.

bishop · September 21, 2014 11:28AM

What does it specifically mean if they were to limit one to a maxim of 5 snipes ending at the same time ? How would that work ?

Mapleleaf · September 22, 2014 4:35AM

<< <i>What does it specifically mean if they were to limit one to a maxim of 5 snipes ending at the same time ? How would that work ? >>

Just speculating - if a seller has a hundred items all finishing at the same time, you could only snipe 5 - the other items you wanted would have to be bid on early.
More than likely, ebay will sell you as many snipes as you want just to keep the share holders happy.

I'm wondering if ebay goes to the way every other auction operates - they don't close an auction until all bids are done.
For example, if there is a snipe - then the auction stays open for another 15-20 seconds allowing time for another bidder to put in a higher bid.

jackstraw · September 22, 2014 4:52AM

I just set a snipe through esnipe and it took it without any message. I got booted last week on a bid and now
wondering if this is going to fire or not? I really want this card but don't want to stay up until midnight to hand bid..

mtcards · September 22, 2014 5:15AM

Bid early, bid often

yankeeno7 · September 22, 2014 6:03AM

I use bidding scheduler and had one snipe set. Just that one. The only one. And it did not go off and I missed out on the card. Still dont know why it didnt go off.

TNP777 · September 22, 2014 6:30AM

I used gixen yesterday without any issues. It was only one auction, though.

carkim · September 22, 2014 7:55AM

I, too, missed out on a hand full of cards because my loaded snipes did not go off.

Looks like I will be watching the count down clock from now on...urgh!

frankhardy · September 25, 2014 12:48AM

Sounds like eBay again is making all of our lives much better. Way to go eBay. You are the best!

addicted2ebay · September 25, 2014 1:09AM

Gavelsnipe is not working all the time so I'm just going the dpeck route and dropping max bids on what I'm interested in.

Ironmanfan · September 25, 2014 1:27AM

I use Just Snipe and haven't had an issue (yet anyways).

IMF

addicted2ebay · September 28, 2014 10:17AM

Dropping the max bid is not working at all... I'm getting out bid by $1 more than once.

lahmejoon · September 28, 2014 10:55AM

My snipes with off successfully tonight via gavelsnipe.

charrigan · September 28, 2014 11:25AM

G-snipe works fine for me.

ChiefsFan1st · September 28, 2014 12:40PM

I absolutly "stole" 2 cards today. I havent even bid on anything in months. I was sure that my bids were low-ball.
I wondered if snipes were working or not. Its possible I found 1 auction that everybody missed, but surely not 2.

I actually kinda feel bad for the sellers

autographs101 · September 28, 2014 2:26PM

<< <i>I absolutly "stole" 2 cards today. I havent even bid on anything in months. I was sure that my bids were low-ball.
I wondered if snipes were working or not. Its possible I found 1 auction that everybody missed, but surely not 2.

I actually kinda feel bad for the sellers

>>

its because auctions are a dead bread the only thing auctions are good for now a days on ebay is to get a steal, bargain, or something of value/worth for next to nothing......its a fact because if auctions weren't tanking then they wouldn't be having listing sales every darn weekend giving 10,000 plus free auction listings away we are now in the time to take advantage of AUCTIONS and get stuff that would have sold FOR MUCH MORE back in the day (when i say back in the day im referring to about 10-12 years ago the hay day of ebay auctions) oh and dont feel sorry for the seller they obviously listen to stupid ebay and started there auctions low and probably had free shipping (that is what ebay tells everyone to do to get so called action going on there listing...thing is ebay is still living in the past when auctions were king)....i to cant believe some of the great items i have gotten in the past few years to add to my personal collections at give away prices.....my advice to anyone using auctions always list it at the lowest you are wanting for the item.....i do think some people are wisening up and seeing that listing something at .99 and hoping for a bidding war (unless its ULTRA ULTRA rare) is NOT going to happen you will be lucky to get 1 or 2 bids at the most these days so they are starting there listings higher which is good for all (at least i think so) also if you look at ebays traffic to its site now compared to about 5-10 years ago its has gone DOWN by almost HALF!

Dpeck100 · September 29, 2014 8:04PM

EBAY News

This news just hit. EBAY folding and going with the activist shareholder's plan to split EBAY and PayPal into two separate independent companies.

WhiteTornado · September 29, 2014 8:12PM

<< <i>EBAY News

This news just hit. EBAY folding and going with the activist shareholder's plan to split EBAY and PayPal into two separate independent companies. >>

I wonder if that means eBay will eventually allow non-PP payment methods.

eBay Now Limiting Number of Snipes?

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