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I am looking for a sniping service to sign up with. Needs to be free (or really cheap) and let me bid at the last 5 seconds. Does such a service exist? Has anyone here used one successfully?
Don’t fret, I am not using this on Windstones!Bidnip is the bomb. I’ve used them for years successfully, and they dont charge you for snipes that dont win the auction.
http://www.auctionstealer.com
I think they will bid for you in the last 3 seconds. I *usually* win whatever Im after.…and here I am just pressing the limits of my internet service doing it. I’ve lost a few auctions since my service picked that moment to hang up. I can’t say that I like that people are using these services, but that’s life I guess. Besides, and I’ll be honest, I didn’t even have to snipe the most prized piece I have in my collection. I couldn’t be there for the end of the auction, so I just put in a maximum bid and let what would happen happen.
For the stuff I bid on, 90%-100% of the bids happen *literally* in the last 10 seconds. I always place my max bid at 5 seconds. So basically, I’ve just been sniping manually all this time. I can’t afford to place a $100 bid 1 minute until closing and then get bid up to 80 or 90 on something that I could have gotten for $50 with a snipe! A few weeks ago I lost one of the best hidden auctions I’d ever found because my internet hung when I placed my snipe bid. Also, I sometimes have several auctions closing in one day and can’t be around for all of them. I don’t have a problem using a snipe program because its doing for me what I could have done by myself anyway. A program will just let me be in two places at once. That’s my opinion.
I tried bidnip tonight and won a nice little battat stegosaurus while also getting my grocery and christmas shopping done.
Wow, I did not know things like this existed. I was always just pushing my luck with my last minute snipes. That would be a useful thing for me since I am usually at work or in class when most of my auctions end. Thanks for the info.
My other motivation for wanting a snipe program is that I get INCREDIBLY nervous when bidding. Like, a lot more than I should, and not having to actually watch the auction end will be so much easier on my nerves!
Just a question here, but isn’t using these bidding tools against ebay policy? I’m honestly not trying to start a fight, but this is what I have been lead to believe anyway. When it all boils down to it, if everyone started using these tools, there would really be no point in bidding. They’re only effective so long as everyone doesn’t use them.
It is legal.
And again, its not doing anything that a live human couldn’t do. On some occasions I have manually placed bids as close as 1 second to the auction end, and could have beat even a snipe program.With sniping, with or without a program, there is still the risk that you will get outbid or get bid up very high. I place very high snipe bids and hope that the person I am bidding over hasn’t set a high max bid themselves and wont have time to react. It usually works, but if my snipe was for 100 and the last person who bid has a max bid was 90, I will end up paying for it. Or, if their max bid was over 100, I will loose and they will be the ones paying a lot. Remember, the last person’s max bid is not public.
Sniped items can still reach very high prices. I have auctions that were at zero suddenly skyrocket once the clock hits 10 seconds.
If EVERYONE was using a snipe program, it would just come down to whoever set the highest snipe.
And those programs are good for people, like myself, who are NEVER around when auctions end. There were some windstone pieces that I would have loved, could have afforded, that I never got, simply, because I was at work when they ended. A program like that gives me a fighting chance at some stuff.
Not like it’s gonna happen anytime soon. I mean, I need money to buy anything off of ebay, windstones included. :shrug:
Pam has done a much better job of explaining sniping programs than i ever could…but I will add that they’ve been around for years, and help alot of people who cant hover around their computer at random times of day. I’d have to say my sentiments on the subject match Dragon87s…word for word….I”m literally NEVER at my computer when auctions end, and sometimes I bid on things that I NEED for my work, or our home….yet I cant tell the kids that “Oh, theres an auction ending this evening for a piece of work equipment…so, um…I wont be cooking dinner, ok?” XD
Pam Thompson wrote:My other motivation for wanting a snipe program is that I get INCREDIBLY nervous when bidding. Like, a lot more than I should, and not having to actually watch the auction end will be so much easier on my nerves!
HA! ME TOO!! Some certain things, I get so wound up, it takes me like an hour to wind down and cool off. Once I was bidding on…okay this will sound lame but bear with me-a speical vintage My Little Pony I had lusted after as a kid… but he was a mail order and the offer had expired so I never got him. As an adult I stumbled across one on ebay in pristine condition with his accessories, hair still in its original 20 year old curls-and the seller was in Texas so I could get it like the next day. Mom agreed to go in half with me for my birthday several years ago-he normally went for about $80 but the stars aligned and I got him for-I think-$40. My heart was about to POUND out of my chest. I think I was so tense I may have had to lay down after it ended LOL *loser* XD Well even better, the seller and I got to talking and she said she had some other ponies she’d send along too. The one I got was “Tux N’ Tails” a blue groom boy pony. She didnt say which ones, but when the box arrived, snuggled up beside the groom was his bride-a “So Soft” or fuzzy Satin N’ Lace with gorgeous curls and dark pink hair (usually pink haired ponies’ hair fades to white or pale soft pink) He and she are still my favorites, even 5ish years after I won him/then ^_^
Pam-if you dont mind me asking, what was the “best hidden auction ever”?
I barely even want to talk about it…
Battat Gallimimus, Styracosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Amargasaurus, possibly others (really bad photo) all in more or less perfect condition, went for $56. I placed my bid for $100 at 5 seconds, like I usually do, and my internet hung–first time ever. I have a feeling a few other people also tried the same thing, and that’s why it froze.
🙄 If only I had bid 2 seconds earlier 🙄In a normal auction, Gallis average about $30, Styrac and Amarga about $40 each, Ourano about $60, and Stego $10. $180 worth of battats for $56…. I have been feverishly hunting ebay every day since trying to make up for it. I feel slightly better though on account of last week finding a resin master battat dilophosaurus and maiasaura for 40 and 60 dollars. I only know two other people with resin masters, other than the original artist and the company itself.
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