EBAY SNIPING JBIDWATCHER SOFTWARE

I only want one phone, of course, but I don't really care which one they'd all be acceptable. I could pick, oh, thirty or forty different phones to bid on. One invaluable ability of JBidWatcher is multi-sniping. There are hundreds being auctioned every hour. Last year, I went shopping for a replacement cell phone. Using JBidWatcher or a sniping service does not change this key fact. You know what, Fran? It’s your own fault! If you’d just bid an honest upper limit in the first place, then you wouldn’t care about snipers. She bids $15, but too late! The auction is over! You got the item for less than another bidder would have paid, and Fran gets to go whine to her friends about those evil snipers stealing her stuff. Fran, who is hovering at her computer, panics, and enters $10. Your snipe fires 30 seconds (really early!) before the auction ends now you’re winning with $6. 60 seconds before the auction closes, Fran is winning with that $5 bid from her $10 maximum. Let's look at the same situation, but instead, you set up an auto-snipe. Are you annoyed? No, you're happy, because you didn't want to spend that much. She enters $25, and finally she’s winning the auction with a bid of $21. So if you just enter a max bid of $20 in the usual way, it puts your bid as the winning bid at $6. Fran thinks she only wants to pay $10, but really she’d go to $30. Hand-bidding Fran wants the same Beanie Baby you do. So why snipe? Because of the people who are not using auto-snipe tools and don’t have the guts to bid their maximum amount in the first place. Auto-snipes fire a pre-determined bid amount at eBay it doesn’t help if you get in after somebody else if their amount is higher than yours. 2-3 secs before auction ends.” If this person had a super-fast connection, and his(her?) snipe fired 1 second before the auction ended, would they then win? If the other bids were entered by sniping software, then no, they would not. Look back again at the comment I quoted: “I’ve already lost 4 auctions. It does not matter when the other person’s bid was entered, it only matters that they were willing to pay more than I was. Or it could have been a snipe that arrived before mine. Or maybe I was winning the auction for 20 seconds, until somebody’s 10-second snipe hit eBay. The winner might be the person who’d had the $34 bid eBay automatically kicked their bid over mine if they entered $75 in the first place. I just know they were willing to pay more than I was. I did not lose this auction by $1.50 eBay doesn't tell me what number the other person entered, only that it was higher than mine. My snipe triggers 30 seconds before ending. Let’s say I set up to snipe an auction for $52. Then, somebody else enters a different number, and our hypothetical wimpy bidder goes back and ups their bid. However, most people can not or will not enter a ‘true’ amount. IF everybody who bid on eBay entered a bid amount that really truly was the most money they wanted to pay for an item, then there would be absolutely no reason to snipe. You’ve lost auctions to people outbidding you, and they could have outbid you 24 hours before the end of the auction just as easily as 3 seconds before. No, you haven’t lost auctions to people sniping tighter than you.

Read that user's quote again, and think about if you've ever felt the same way: 'I’ve already lost 4 auctions. This is a very simple truth, but it's incredibly important if you want to not be disappointed or frustrated when bidding online, and I've been amazed at how many people I know Just Don't Get It. So if you determine what the item is worth to you, set a snipe for that much, and they outbid you, it doesn’t matter when they did it, you weren’t willing to pay more.' But, Morgan also notes 'I understand that you want to try to snipe close to the end, but understand that the last bidder isn’t the winner. It measures how long it takes to load a page from eBay, assuming that submitting a bid might take a similar amount of time. It cross-checks the time from eBay's web site against your computer's clock. The author/programmer responded with quite a bit of detail as to the lengths JBidWatcher will go to try to cut it close but not be too late. (Sniping, if this term is new to you, is placing a bid on an auction right before it ends.) In particular, he says 'I realize it’s safer to just go for 40 secs but I’ve already lost 4 auctions from same seller to snipers pulling triggers 2-3 secs before auction ends.'

EBAY SNIPING JBIDWATCHER SOFTWARE

I posted this short essay on a software program's forum, but thought I'd repost it here, since it touches on a subject that's come up in conversation.Ī user of the eBay bidding tool JBidWatcher posted a question about how close to the end of an auction he could set the snipe time. 03:59 pm - Nasty snipers stole my Beanie Baby, boo hoo hoo.

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