2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
2:49 p.m.
On 3/2/2006 at 2:41 PM Richard wrote:
I look at it this way. These guys maintain the server farms and software
and are responsible for getting my bid in within x (single-digit) seconds
of auction close. 90 minutes before the auction end they check my bid
against the current high bid and drop me an email if I'm sure not to be a
winner.
For that, they want 1% of winning bids up to I think a max of $10 for a
$1000 item. For items under $25, they want nothing. They don't push spam
at me and they don't fill my screen with ads.
Seems pretty fair to me. I used to run someone else's sniping software and
got burned a number of times when eBay changed their layout or bid
mechanism. Yeah, eventually, the vendor got around to fixing things, but
it was weeks, not hours to get things right again.
Like anything else, you're free to participate or not. I think it's a
cheap way to get what I want without worrying about the nonsense of eBay
bidding.
Anyone remember any of the other auction services that wouldn't close an
auction until there were no bids for 5 minutes? You never knew if you had
the high bid. I think OnSale was one such.
Cheers,
Chuck
In article <200603021038440124.183CA3A7 at
10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
> I was one of the early signups on eSnipe, so I have a lifetime
(according
to them) fee
exemption on purchases $25 and under, which constitutes a
large portion of my purchases. (Okay, I'm a skinflint!). Even with
high-priced items, there's a cap on charges.
Oh man... a sniping service that wants "a piece of the action"?!
No thanks!
software packages, though Googling for
"sniping software" sure brings up
a
lot of candidates!
Yeah, but all of them seem to be "pay me $x per month for the rest of
your ebay lifetime" which I consider to be a ripoff. That's just my
opinion, of course. Who else's would it be?(*)