Sniping Tools

Hunnymonster

There's my patented way of annoying a large crowd of German bidders.... a 10 day auction on eBay Germany starting at €0.50 and this crowd of long-pocketed, short-armed people had been nibbling away for 9.99 days and it had got to something like €3 - so I buzzed in manually (with 5 seconds to go) and got it for €3.10

Generated about 15 emails from disgruntled outbid people moaning that I wasn't playing the game properly.....

Noticed the next week that a similar item was up for sale from the same seller - I didn't want it, but the same 15 bids were in, from the same 15 users - so I couldn't resist (I didn't even want the second one lol) - and won it for €3.10

That win generated death threats and all sorts of other shenanigans..... So when another item from the same seller appeared I had to lob in my top bid of €5 and it got nibbled away and someone ended up buying it for €5.50 - and then I got a load of abuse for 'forcing' them up above the price they wanted to pay

kirkie_2

Hunnymonster wrote:

There's my patented way of annoying a large crowd of German bidders.... a 10 day auction on eBay Germany starting at €0.50 and this crowd of long-pocketed, short-armed people had been nibbling away for 9.99 days and it had got to something like €3 - so I buzzed in manually (with 5 seconds to go) and got it for €3.10

Generated about 15 emails from disgruntled outbid people moaning that I wasn't playing the game properly.....

Noticed the next week that a similar item was up for sale from the same seller - I didn't want it, but the same 15 bids were in, from the same 15 users - so I couldn't resist (I didn't even want the second one lol) - and won it for €3.10

That win generated death threats and all sorts of other shenanigans..... So when another item from the same seller appeared I had to lob in my top bid of €5 and it got nibbled away and someone ended up buying it for €5.50 - and then I got a load of abuse for 'forcing' them up above the price they wanted to pay

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!

blue-kat

I've just successfully used justsnipe.com for free. :j Now looking forward to receiving Breville AWT healthy grill for £20.07 ( inc. £10 on p+p) - which is somewhat cheaper than £39.97 at Amazon.

1st time I've used sniping software, but was going to be out when auction ended to decided to give it a try.

I worked out my maximum bid taking into account the tenner for p+p, and set justsnipe to place my bid 45 seconds before the end.

I didn't have the nerve to do it any closer, would be interested to hear when other MSEs place their sniping bid?
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cookiemonster25

HHmm how secure is this? am reluctant to give out my ebay password etc to an unsecure site