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| Grasshopper:
Hi, Unfortunately esniper for Linux, which was my favourite Ebay sniping tool, no longer appears to work. So I'm wondering whether anyone here can recommend an alternative for either Windows or Linux? I would prefer a tool that doesn't require you to enter your Ebay credentials into a website. But I'll consider anything as long as it's considered trustworthy. Thanks in advance. |
| Vocalitus:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on September 10, 2021, 03:01:44 pm ---Hi, Unfortunately esniper for Linux, which was my favourite Ebay sniping tool, no longer appears to work. So I'm wondering whether anyone here can recommend an alternative for either Windows or Linux? I would prefer a tool that doesn't require you to enter your Ebay credentials into a website. But I'll consider anything as long as it's considered trustworthy. Thanks in advance. --- End quote --- That says it all doesn't it? Something that is trustworthy. You will need to use the .com version of ebay. co.uk doesn't work. If you are going to bid on something put the max amount and be like the rest of us, besides Ebay is looking for users doing this and documenting. Its not illegal but they are clamping down on it. |
| Grasshopper:
I really don't want to get into a debate over the ethics of sniping, but for what it's worth, Ebay's official position is that it's acceptable: https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/bid-sniping?id=4224&st=3&pos=1&query=Bid%20sniping&intent=sniping&lucenceai=lucenceai&docId=HELP1298 |
| lilshawn:
no, but he's saying ebay literally has "sniping" built into it with automated bidding. https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/auctions-bidding/bidding-works?id=4014 all you have to do is go in a minute or 2 before the close and put your max bid up to whatever you are willing to pay and ebay literally puts your bid at whatever the last highest bid is +1. it's not completely automated, since you have to manually put your bit proxy up, but everything else is literally all a sniping program does anyway... get that last bid. also my 2 cents: who "bids" on stuff on ebay these days? if i'm looking at something and it's not buy it now, i know i'm not interested. all the auction process does is drive up the price from shill bidding and self bids trying to get more for their items. the only thing i might be interested in buying auction style is something with zero bids and minutes to go...and chances are it'll come back as tHiS iTEm DidNT reAch tHe reSErvE pRIce anyway, so i hardly waste my time. |
| Howard_Casto:
But that doesn't work. The point of sniping isn't to win the auction but to win the auction with the lowest possible amount. If you set up an auto bid 2 minutes before the auction ends all you are going to do is greatly inflate the price. You might win, but you won't get a deal. Sniping makes it appear like there isn't any interest, so people generally set their max bid to something low and then you go in at the last possible second and outbid the max bid by a couple of bucks. I've never been good at it but I do understand the concept. |
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