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Who sells the best eBay sniping program?
golddustin
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After resisting for these oh so many years and trying to win auctions by beating the snipers at the last second, I have finally given up. It seems that if you really want an item (coin), the only way to assure that your bid is the final, highest bid is to have a program to snipe that final bid.
I've stayed up late way too many nights waiting for auctions to end, only to lose the bidding to an automated program that another bidder activated and went off to sleep.
So, I ask, which programs are the most successful? I imagine that they must be timed very accurately to eBay's clock, so that the bid is entered at the exact time needed to win.
Any information will be very much appreciated!
I've stayed up late way too many nights waiting for auctions to end, only to lose the bidding to an automated program that another bidder activated and went off to sleep.
So, I ask, which programs are the most successful? I imagine that they must be timed very accurately to eBay's clock, so that the bid is entered at the exact time needed to win.
Any information will be very much appreciated!
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And as rich as you are,
it's much better by far,
to be young at heart!
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every treasure on Earth
to be young at heart?
And as rich as you are,
it's much better by far,
to be young at heart!
Because eBay allows you to click on & see 'automated' bids....and I have tried many different methods of beating the snipers. Even using eBay's click through 'increase to max bid' at the very last second still shows my bid getting beaten by another that occurs even later. It has to be incredibly (fractions of a second) close to the actual eBay auction end time.
Most likely someone simply entered a higher max bid than you in those situations (which, admittedly could be through a sniping program, but not necessarily). A sniping program typically enters a bid in a few seconds before the auction ends, not a fraction of a second before (maybe some do that I'm not aware of, but that sounds very risky for missing an auction).
The automated bids you are referring to are from when someone entered a max bid above the current bid, and eBay has automatically increased their bid when someone else bid. For example, lets say I'm the current high bidder in an auction for $100, but my max bid is $150. If someone bids $130, eBay will automatically increase my bid up to $135 (or whatever one bid increment above $130 is) to keep me the high bidder. From what you're describing, that is most likely what is happening. You're entering the next highest bid (say, $140), but I have a max bid of $150, meaning eBay will automatically increase my bid to $145 to keep me as the current highest bidder (assuming $5 minimum bid intervals).
it has worked every time I've used it
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You pay for it by buying "bid points", and your account is only debited the bid points if you win.
I think I spent about $15 for x-number of bid points years ago, and still haven't run out.
Haven't done the math, but esnipe can't have cost much me more than a few pennies to use per month.
And it has no doubt more than paid for itself in money saved.
May I suggest an alternative tactic: bid higher
This is of course the essential element, but it doesn't take the entire strategy into account.
Even if you enter a "nuclear" bid at any time before the final moments of the auction, you're giving the competition more time to up their bids, and therefore even if your giant bid wins, as it is likely to, the others will have run the price up trying fruitlessly to catch up.
If you do not use one of these programs or snipe manually, you are paying too much, unless you happen to be the sole bidder.
So yes, high bid is the #1 consideration, but timing is definitely a close second if you don't want to overpay.
This is what sniping is FOR, and why it's a thing.
Sniping programs DO NOT help you win- only the highest bid can do that.
Sniping programs DO save you money by keeping you out of bidding wars and not revealing your interest in an item until it's over.
May I suggest an alternative tactic: bid higher
This is of course the essential element, but it doesn't take the entire strategy into account.
Even if you enter a "nuclear" bid at any time before the final moments of the auction, you're giving the competition more time to up their bids, and therefore even if your giant bid wins, as it is likely to, the others will have run the price up trying fruitlessly to catch up.
If you do not use one of these programs or snipe manually, you are paying too much, unless you happen to be the sole bidder.
So yes, high bid is the #1 consideration, but timing is definitely a close second if you don't want to overpay.
This is what sniping is FOR, and why it's a thing.
Sniping programs DO NOT help you win- only the highest bid can do that.
Sniping programs DO save you money by keeping you out of bidding wars and not revealing your interest in an item until it's over.
This 1000 times over.
I use Auction Buyers Bidding Snipe timer for eBay. It is for both Mac and PC. It cost me $2.99 and does not charge a per snipe bid. It comes with a companion app for my iPhone that talk to each other, so I can update snipes and get alerts when I am not at home. I have won a lot of auctions with it. I used to do the manual sniping on eBay and would get all nervous about it going through in time or getting outbid. This is a bid and forget app. It's wonderful..
I've been buying (and selling) on eBay for a very long time, and I can tell which bids are through a sniping program and which bidders managed to nip me at the wire. I have 'fished' my bid up higher to see who has automatic bidding and get an idea of where the bidding will end....but when I bid with less than 10 seconds left, and get a response from eBay with 3 options for increasing my bid, choose the 'maximum bid' option, and then still lose by the minimum increment to a bidder who hadn't even been bidding yet, with a bid that is placed at the exact same time the auction ended - I've been sniped.
For a long time, I could manage to win my fair share of auctions with well priced (and luckily timed) bids, but it is getting harder & harder to do nowadays.
Thanks to all for the recommendations - I will try one out tonight and see how it goes.
Chuck
every treasure on Earth
to be young at heart?
And as rich as you are,
it's much better by far,
to be young at heart!
I've used esnipe.com for years. Dirt cheap, easy to use, never a problem.
You pay for it by buying "bid points", and your account is only debited the bid points if you win.
I think I spent about $15 for x-number of bid points years ago, and still haven't run out.
Haven't done the math, but esnipe can't have cost much me more than a few pennies to use per month.
And it has no doubt more than paid for itself in money saved.
esnipe has always been the way for me. It costs 1 %......100 dollar auction, 1 dollar.......
I've used esnipe.com for years. Dirt cheap, easy to use, never a problem.
You pay for it by buying "bid points", and your account is only debited the bid points if you win.
I think I spent about $15 for x-number of bid points years ago, and still haven't run out.
Haven't done the math, but esnipe can't have cost much me more than a few pennies to use per month.
And it has no doubt more than paid for itself in money saved.
I agree. I also have used esnipe for many years. The default bid time is 6 seconds prior to the auction ending. I always lower it to 3 seconds. You can go as low as 1 second which I have never tried yet.
Manual sniping has become to frustrating.
Do most programs work with both eBay and Heritage? I didn't know they had programs for Heritage.
I could be wrong, but I thought gavelsnipe was a program created by heritage or somebody that worked there. I haven't used enough sniping programs to know if others work with heritage, but I haven't encountered any.
May I suggest an alternative tactic: bid higher
Funny.
Golddustin, Even with the sniper, if you do not bid higher, you are going to lose to the high bidder. In your examples above, you would have still lost using a sniper.
I use the pay Gixen experiencing only a couple of problems the last few years.