Ebay bid snipers?

[cheb]

I've never used a sniper but I'm going to after my last debacle.

For anyone else who missed it, the seller had someone put in a massive bid to discover my max bid amount, then cancelled that bid and immediately (as in 40-odd seconds later) re-bid just below my max bid amount, thus guaranteeing that they would get at least the amount I was willing to pay even if there was no other interest.

Something similar is partly why I started using one years ago.

 

[frank horton]

try doing from abroad when it's important stuff.....hahaha....
If it's an item thats so special I just bid well over the odd's......
it's still easyer and cheaper than buying machines n tools here.....

 

[Puglet1]

snip.pl
They charge a couple of cents per successful bid, a tenner lasts me a decade.
Note the reliability of some of the services, I've never had a problem with this lot.

I’m with Farside on this one. Easy to set up and use.

 

[Seadog]

I've never used a sniper but I'm going to after my last debacle.

For anyone else who missed it, the seller had someone put in a massive bid to discover my max bid amount, then cancelled that bid and immediately (as in 40-odd seconds later) re-bid just below my max bid amount, thus guaranteeing that they would get at least the amount I was willing to pay even if there was no other interest.

I'd have cancelled the purchase then reported them.

 

[Pete.]

I'd have cancelled the purchase then reported them.

If I could have found d a way to report it I would have but there seemed to be no facility.

 

[Morrisman]

I always snipe manually. Usually successfully. As said, if you bid early, you can create interest and a bidding frenzy.

There are lots of people who only bid enough to beat the current price. And as soon as someone outbids them they go back in and add another quid, ad infinitum. I’d bid right towards the end, closing second, so they don’t have chance to keep popping more offers in.

I never tried a sniper app, but it would have helped when I was on the slowest internet in the world, working offshore.

 

[julianf]

I used to have a paid one that ran locally.

It worked but was still reliant on your connection.

Now I pay for gixen.



There's a free option with gixen which will suit most people, but the price isn't high, and paying gets you a quicker response and redundant servers.

I can't remember gixen ever failing. I don't win many auctions as I'm still a skint flint, but gixen does exactly what it's supposed to do.

 

[brightspark]

I still use auction sniper, they try to get you to use the paid service, but its still free,
never had one not work,

well if someone realy wanted it and stuck a high maximum in it wouldnt work unless your top whack was higher than theres

 

[chrismac]

Yes I Understand the max bid amount on ebay. But someone else bidding can pretty quicky just bid above that and expose your max amount well before the auction ends then if you get caught up in a bidding war you end up paying over the odds.

Manually placing my max bid in last few seconds works well for me. But a sniper would automate this process.

This is me sometimes if I want something, if I reach my max I go looking to see how high the other bidder wants to go.

But as you say its nice to be around when the auction ends so you can manually put the bid on in the dying seconds and you might get lucky.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

There are lots of people who only bid enough to beat the current price. And as soon as someone outbids them they go back in and add another quid,

This isn't a bad strategy sometimes...it makes it look like the seller has someone pushing up the price which can put off genuine bidders .

It's a strategy...everyone has their way I think.

 

[northwest]

I've never used a sniper but I'm going to after my last debacle.

For anyone else who missed it, the seller had someone put in a massive bid to discover my max bid amount, then cancelled that bid and immediately (as in 40-odd seconds later) re-bid just below my max bid amount, thus guaranteeing that they would get at least the amount I was willing to pay even if there was no other interest.

Somebody has just done exactly this to me so my response was to walk away and put them ALL on the blacklist.

 

[gaz1]

Same here I just put the clock alarm 1 minute before the expiry
Refresh the page few times
And on the last 30 seconds I place my offer Wich is the maximum I'm willing to pay for something.
Confirm on the last 10 seconds, at this point the other offers can't place another one if not using bots.
It works fine for me I just don't take it too seriously if I win I'm happy but if not it just wasn't for me and an idiot paid too much for it
I won many auctions but lost a bunch more.
Sometimes you cannot really win.
Bots should be banned IMHO but they'll never do that because they take a slice of the cake so the higher the final price the bigger the slice.
It's frustrating especially when you loose for a couple cents (guess why bots)
But I don't want to pay the extra 0.01 euro to win because even so I'm overpaying something.

im alot faster

last minute refresh page refresh again at 30 secs

last 10 secs refresh page place bid click bid on last 2 seconds

that was before the changes

now im up to 5 secs to click bid and the last one 10 secs click bid then get that annoying box so have to click it at 5 secs


im right as i know my speed and the net speed but ebay servers have not received the bid when clicked bid now then it comes back the item has ended

i know its there extra box pushing for a higher amount causing an issue with the timer and the bid not going through as it seems the times is out

i timed it once and it was 3-4 seconds out to the item ending

I've never used a sniper but I'm going to after my last debacle.

For anyone else who missed it, the seller had someone put in a massive bid to discover my max bid amount, then cancelled that bid and immediately (as in 40-odd seconds later) re-bid just below my max bid amount, thus guaranteeing that they would get at least the amount I was willing to pay even if there was no other interest.

thats shill bidding and an easy way to report it

if reported you dont have the max amount to pay as ebay will drop the price right down to your first bid not your max bid

and if ebay dont then refuse to pay it as that is very legal to do so and ebay wont like that as theyve allowed shill bidding on there system and you have proof of it


if you are reported under that score you both can loose your ebay accounts as you can be banned from ebay for shill bidding

 

[Turbo]

Local auction house uses I bidder software for their online sales.
To stop snipe bidding they have a great system installed.
If you put on a bid on a lot in the last 10 minutes of the lot ending another 10 minutes is added to the end time of a lot.
So if I put a bid on with 1 second to go someone else has 10 minutes to add a higher bid.
You regularly see people trying to snipe bid when watching items. I had one guy try it 3 times on an item I was winning, adding a bid with 10 seconds to go. How thick was he that he didn't catch on that the clock reset to 10 minutes every time he placed a bid!

 

[JOEPRO]

Local auction house uses I bidder software for their online sales.
To stop snipe bidding they have a great system installed.
If you put on a bid on a lot in the last 10 minutes of the lot ending another 10 minutes is added to the end time of a lot.
So if I put a bid on with 1 second to go someone else has 10 minutes to add a higher bid.
You regularly see people trying to snipe bid when watching items. I had one guy try it 3 times on an item I was winning, adding a bid with 10 seconds to go. How thick was he that he didn't catch on that the clock reset to 10 minutes every time he placed a bid!

And who wins there then I wonder.... If an auction ends it should end fair and square. That sounds like a fairly bad setup to be honest.

 

[jonclancy]

Like Joe, I bid late, bid long. If stuff is rare, then my long bid reflects that. If I lose, then that’s fine as I placed my max bid. I used to run a stopwatch and refresh in the dying minutes to see what the latency was. All good fun, and a bit of a thrill of the chase.

Nowadays I’m just too tied up for all that jazz. I use Bidnapper. It’s about a quid a snipe. If your bid is too low and you miss out, there is no charge. It’s saved me on some rare stuff that I really wanted. This is low/mid value stuff, but generally hen’s teeth.

 

[Turbo]

And who wins there then I wonder.... If an auction ends it should end fair and square. That sounds like a fairly bad setup to be honest.

It's the closest thing to having a real auctioneer, which is what they use to have.
He will watch the room and give everyone an equal chance to bid. If no more hands are raised the hammer goes down and the highest bidder wins.
Then covid happened and they couldn't hold live auctions in the auction room. They switched to totally online bidding and never switched back. They have a bigger audience and less overheads.
I miss the atmosphere of the live auction but the online one means I can still do stuff at home and place bids when needed.

We all like getting a bargain but I see using a bid sniper as cheating. Place the maximum you want to pay on an item and let the software bid for you. If you win it good enough, if you lose it someone else has overpaid!

 

[gaz1]

@Turbo

to me that setup allows for shill bidders to do there damage and inflate bids to get a higher price for gear

it dosnt matter what actions there in shill biders are there and so are friends of the owners of the items

shill bidders arnt allowed but they are there in all actions

but if you are caught its considered a serious act of fraud and deception to falsely inflate the price of items at auction to make others increase their bids to win the items thus awarding you you a higher financial gain for the items sold.

therefore i have to agree its a badly designed action

 

[Jaeger_S2k]

I can't see why using Snipping software is 'cheating'?
How exactly? It uses the same parameters that everyone who's calling cheating is using.
It waits till the last 5 seconds (or less, user sets the time) and places a bid, it does this while I'm watching tele, while you're sitting glued to your computer hoping you can flick your 'ickle finger quick enough to snipe/cheat the other bidders?
There's no skill in it, it's last bid wins, and that's that. Pay/bid what you are willing to pay and Bob's your Auntie (in today's Liberal world

)

 

[julianf]

The only bidders that a snipe "works" against are those who can't decide what they want to pay for something.

If someone has made a bid, and my snipe is higher, I win. If they chose to spend more, they win.

If they knew wanted to pay when they placed their bid, I don't see that it's my place to allow them to change their mind.

If they didn't know what they wanted to pay, then maybe they should have had a bit of a think. And, again, it's not my fault they can't make their mind up.

Everyone knows how it works.

 

[julianf]

It's like me whining that my snipe failed because I entered £100, but got out bid...

I should have had a chance to bid £110.

I mean, how ridiculous does that sound?


I did have a chance. When I wrote £100, I could have written £110!