Ebay has a feature call "autobid". You set the maximum you will pay and it
stays
ahead of those bidding. Now if others are using autobid... I don't have a clue
what happens. At least you have your maximum.
Herb
Eddie Sheffield wrote:
> Funny you should bring this up. Just today I downloaded a thing like this
> called "Cricket Jr." Pretty neat if you're into sniping. It's not free, and
> I don't know if I'll buy it or not. It has a 15 day trial period. Does seem
> a little buggy, though. I was playing around with the sound/alarm settings
> in it and it crashed with some error, but the sound kept playing. I'm on Win
> 2000 so I popped up the Task Manager to try to kill it, and it wouldn't die!
> Couldn't even shut down - had to power off. So don't play with the sounds if
> you try it. Otherwise it worked fine on the one auction I tried it out on,
> though I don't think there was a lot of bidding for the item anyway. If
> anyone's interested you can check it out at:
>
> http://www.worldint.com/journeys/ebay/snipe/chris/cricket%20jr.html
>
> Setup was annoying - on first run it went through this "Setup Wizard" which
> was really little more than a bunch of screens describing the features, and
> not even how to use it very well. About all that was actually "setup" was
> entering my time difference from Pacific zone and my ebay username/password.
> But once I was through that it seemed fairly obvious how to use it. Pay
> close attention to entering your bid amount though - spaces get interpretted
> as 0s. It does warn you about this, which is good since I almost bid 210.00
> on something instead of 21.00!
>
> No financial interest, yada yada, not even sure if I'm a satisfied customer.
>
> (Obligatory Spridget content) Maybe I'll use it to try and get a tonneau
> that fits - the one that came with my car has shrunk quite a bit and when I
> tried it today for the first time I discovered it was about 1 1/2" too
> short! Phooey! And I had spent a lot of time hand-sewing a new zipper in! Oh
> well, maybe just save up for a new one.
>
> Eddie
> 1971 Midget
>
> > Has anybody heard of "Auction Sniper" or something to that effect? I saw
> it
> > once on an e-bay page and was going to check it out and of course can't
> find
> > it now. Man, I'm tired of getting weenied out in the last minute of
> bidding.
> > I lost a billet oil pump for a H-D the other night, somebody bid about ten
> > times in the last couple of minutes til they beat me. (3:00 am) This
> > "sniper" is supposed to prevent that sort of thing I think.
> >
> > Jim K.
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