In article <7.0.1.0.2.20060302211358.021d9898 at earthlink.net>,
Steve Thatcher <melamy at earthlink.net> writes:
check out
www.bidrobot.com
they charge a flat subscription fee. [...]
But its still a fee that I pay in perpetuity....
Yeah, I know you're all saying but these fees are small. Well after a
while all these fees add up. Paypal, ebay, "sniper fee", shipping and
so-on. I don't *need* their web farm server or whatever. I don't
*want* to give them my ebay signon credentials (hello! blatant
security hole!). I already have multiple machines that are on the net
24/7 and could watch something on ebay to snipe for me. I'm just
looking for a simple program that I can run on my machine. I don't
want a subscription to some service where I have to trust them with my
ebay signon credentials, where I have to pay them a piece of
everything I buy through them until the end of time, or a monthly fee
for their service. Hell, I could probably write a simple autoit
script that would post my bid automatically in about 15 minutes (and it
wouldn't depend on internals of ebay's HTML). Everyone is making a
big deal out of the fact that these subscription places update their
code as ebay changes the internals of their HTML, which to me sounds
like they are just plain doing it the hard way.
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