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Any sniping sites that allow sniping of buy-it-nows?

  • 16-12-2008 2:26pm
    #1
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭


    I use snip.pl and it will not allow me snipe a buy it now ebay listing.

    I have a snipe on something that has 12 bids already. So I am guessing these people have seen the buy it now item too, and are holding out to see if their bid will win, possibly snipers themselves. So the moment they are outbid they might head off and buy the other identical item as a buy-it-now.

    That is what I want to do, but automatically. But snip.pl does not allow it, I suppose they are not considering people ever doing this, although they allow cancellation of other bids if you have a win, or activation of bids if you do not win.

    Does anybody know of one that can set up a buy it now snipe, not just a timed one, but one with logic, i.e. if I win the first auction I want the buy it now cancelled.


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  • #2
    JJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭JJ


    There normally isn't a need to snipe a BIN listing except the scenario you mentioned.

    No software would be able to do what you mentioned in your last scentence, "if I win the first auction I want the buy it now cancelled." You'd have to contact the seller in that situation and there's no guarantee the seller would be happy to oblige.


  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    No I meant the snipe software would cancel the bid. This is what snip.pl does. Say there are 2 auctions that day and you will not be around a PC. If you win the first one then the software recognises you have won, so it does not place a bid on the second, you can add logic operations to your bids. Snip.pl is very good this way, you can even change bid values etc.

    In the end I did it manually, people got caught up in the auction and paid more. i.e. the item was €65 as a buyitnow with free post. IN the auction auction was €5 postage and ended up over €60.

    I see this a lot, people paying over the odds, a simple search would have revealed both items. Thing was I was able to "book" the buyitnow, i.e. before the first one ended I went to the buyitnow and clicked it, now it came to the confirm page. This meant if anybody else missed out on the auction they were not allowed do the buyitnow, since my foot was in the door. The moment I lost I confirmed the buyitnow.

    But I think, not 100% certain, that I could have cancelled the buyitnow at the confirm page.


  • #4
    JJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭JJ


    If you're at the confirm page on a BIN listing, you haven't commited to anything or actually reserved anything so there would be nothing to actually cancel.

    Also, if you're on the confirm screen, someone else could pip you to the post on the BIN listing though that's highly unlikely unless the other person is also on the confirm screen and/or has a faster connection or is quicker on the draw then you. If the BIN listing is immediate payment required, that makes it even more interesting as you need to pay for the item via PayPal before the item is taken off eBay.


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