OT: Tool for sniping over at ebay

[Ragnarok-X]

Im looking for a decent free tool in order to do some sniping on ebay. Any suggestions ?

[Saber Cherry]

You won't get anything free on ebay. But you can probably do some limited sniping with a home-made blowgun. And as catching poison jungle tree frogs is not easy in Germany, try dipping the darts in Tabasco sauce... not lethal, but it should still sting!

[Fyron]

Thats a rather shady tactic, not appropriate for discussion in a place like this.

[shinigami]

Bull. Sniping is an accepted part of life on Ebay.

BidNoble - http://www.bidnobble.com/
esniper, console based - http://esniper.sourceforge.net/
frontend for above - http://www.es-f.com/

[Randallw]

I don't use Ebay myself, although I used to sell stuff on it at work. There's a mechanism that can ignore any bids in the last 5 minutes. Though having said that it would seem to me that just puts the end of the auction forward 5 minutes.

As much as I would dearly love to get some things, such as an original copy of Reich Star, I am sadly too paranoid to ever trust some stranger with money. I once had a PayPal account I used to buy a book from an author once, but after that I was warned not to trust it and never renewed.

"I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa"

Ebay song

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I just never trust an Amazon or E-Bay seller with less than a 95% rating or too few sales.

95% is 1 in 20 - a perfectly reasonable mistake rate. In another five percent you reach 1 in 10, which is too high.

[Fyron]

shinigami said:
Bull. Sniping is an accepted part of life on Ebay.

Murder and thievery are "accepted parts of life" too. But just like Ebay, society has created methods for trying to deal with them in a preventative manner. If sniping auctions was a good thing, every auction site known to man wouldn't have invested time and money in developing anti-sniping features (extending auction time if a bid is placed within the last 5 minutes, the auto-bid feature on Ebay where it will place incrementally raising bids for you up to a set limit when you are out bid, etc.).

Can a moderator please delete the shady links that were posted? Its like posting links to sites detailing how to create trojans and spam bot networks... not a good thing for polite society.

[shinigami]

Murder and thievery are "accepted parts of life" too.

You're comparing apples and oranges.

But just like Ebay, society has created methods for trying to deal with them in a preventative manner.

Untrue. Ebay does not care if people snipe or not.

the auto-bid feature on Ebay where it will place incrementally raising bids for you up to a set limit when you are out bid

Ah yes, the proxy bidding system, aka, the original sniping tool for bidders. If people use it properly then all the supposedly evil sniping software in the world wouldn't make a difference. Remember, the highest bid wins not the last.

Can a moderator please delete the shady links that were posted? Its like posting links to sites detailing how to create trojans and spam bot networks... not a good thing for polite society.

That is just your opinion, sir, and 18,000+ posts doesn't necessarily make it more right than someone else's.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

In this case, I agree with Fyron, pretty much - Using electronic tools to bid takes all skill out of it. If I'm going to snipe, I'm going to do it myself.

[Atrocities]

I will ask the Forum Admin to make a call on locking this thread.