2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
6:15 p.m.
check out www.bidrobot.com
they charge a flat subscription fee. You can spend as little or as
much and it won't cost you anything but what ever you buy.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
At 04:57 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote:
eSnipe charges 1%. Most of my purchases are less that
$100 so a few
cents for a service that allows me to do something else instead of
watching an auctio is worth it to me. To each their own.
2 Mar
2 Mar
6:45 p.m.
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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6:56 p.m.
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.
I think that hidden away in the Ebay user license is something about how
external services have to pay some sort of fee in order to interface with
Ebay. This is why there are not hoards of freeware versions of Power
Lister, and anooyingly to me, not a good Mac version. This is also
probably why free sniping programs are not forthcoming.
I suppose Ebay can invalidate bids or users that use services that do not
pay this fee.
Time to move off Ebay, folks.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
7:09 p.m.
On 3/2/2006 at 9:56 PM William Donzelli wrote:
This is also
probably why free sniping programs are not forthcoming.
Have a look at http://www.bidnobble.com
--Chuck
3 Mar
3 Mar
6:31 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Friday, March
03, 2006 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: good online sniper
I don't *want* to give them my ebay signon credentials (hello! blatant
security hole!).
You're not wrong there ! The site has an
outdated encryption method , I
wouldn't give them my time of day.
To Steve Thatcher :
If they've got your details , perhaps you should get them to improve their
security !
Geoff.
Certificate name
www.bidrobot.com
www.bidrobot.com
businessprofile.geotrust.com/get.jsp?GT75421889, See www.rapidssl.com/cps
(c)05, Domain Control Validated - RapidSSL(R)
US
Issuer
Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1
Equifax Secure Inc.
US
Details
https://www.bidrobot.com/style.css
Connection : TLS v1.0 128 bit ARC4 (RSA/SHA)
Certificate version: 3
Serial number: 196667
Not valid before: Jan 16 14:30:29 2006 GMT
Not valid after: Jan 17 14:30:29 2007 GMT
Fingerprint : (MD5) 15 BD E0 F9 79 11 45 44 63 33 FA F2 00 57 45 3C
Fingerprint : (SHA-1) 06 C0 58 4B 94 59 C7 34 9C 33 2F 90 1C A5 C6 75 42 12
70 F9
Public key algorithm : rsaEncryption
Public-Key (512 bit):
Modulus:
00: 0F DD EA E4 5D D5 0A D6 7E A5 74 58 14 2B 97 E3
10: 47 40 80 A4 AC F6 2C 90 FD 1F B5 16 E6 B9 97 07
20: 4A 76 4D 65 C0 50 D7 B8 45 80 64 9C B3 EF 1D 75
30: 0C 8B 73 9D 58 3E E8 BB 55 F7 A2 AA 92 84 7F D3
Exponent:
01 00 01
Signature algorithm : md5WithRSAEncryption
00: 9D E7 FA 6C B2 53 05 24 DD 5F 4F 26 4E DD 89 DD
10: 88 19 FD 82 99 07 19 16 40 48 DA 72 4E 24 44 F5
20: B1 02 4F 69 1F E6 BD 99 0A B8 87 AB 8C 97 A5 CA
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60: 2F 3C EE 3F 91 7E BF 47 38 35 88 34 C8 E0 93 7A
70: 0A A9 E3 78 A9 E4 13 C0 37 E9 B2 15 07 81 00 BA
Extensions:
X509v3 Key Usage (Critical): Digital Signature, Non Repudiation, Key
Encipherment, Data Encipherment
X509v3 Subject Key Identifier:
CA:A9:4E:A6:89:9D:D5:2B:66:C6:ED:B2:E0:AE:B4:78:00:CA:3D:C4
X509v3 CRL Distribution Points:
URI:http://crl.geotrust.com/crls/globalca1.crl
X509v3 Authority Key Identifier:
keyid:BE:A8:A0:74:72:50:6B:44:B7:C9:23:D8:FB:A8:FF:B3:57:6B:68:6C
X509v3 Extended Key Usage: TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client
Authentication
X509v3 Basic Constraints (Critical): CA:FALSE
10:26 a.m.
--- Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
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.
Paypal, ebay fees? I didn't think there were any for
buyers, but I only sell so I don't know off hand.
I already have multiple machines
that are on the net
24/7 and could watch something on ebay to snipe for
me.
Not sure why you need multiple machines on the net
24/7, but that sounds like a much bigger money drain
then any snipe software fee.
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10:38 a.m.
On Friday 03 March 2006 13:26, steve wrote:
--- Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Desktop, homedirectory server, media (quasi-tivo) and laptop for me...
and that's at home. They each are a lot more useful to have than
paying sniper fees, especially if I'm going to have them on anyways.
Wait, why am I arguing with someone on cctalk about spending money
running machines 24x7????
"SIGSEGV received in module unix"
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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.
Paypal, ebay fees? I didn't think there were any for
buyers, but I only sell so I don't know off hand.
I already have multiple machines
that are on the net
24/7 and could watch something on ebay to snipe for
me.
Not sure why you need multiple machines on the net
24/7, but that sounds like a much bigger money drain
then any snipe software fee. 
2 Mar
2 Mar
7:39 p.m.
I've been using auctionstealer.com for about 2 years now, its been a
very reliable service and its been around for sometime now.
Curt
Steve Thatcher wrote:
check out www.bidrobot.com
they charge a flat subscription fee. You can spend as little or as
much and it won't cost you anything but what ever you buy.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
At 04:57 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote:
--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/272 - Release Date: 3/1/2006
eSnipe charges 1%. Most of my purchases are less
that $100 so a few
cents for a service that allows me to do something else instead of
watching an auctio is worth it to me. To each their own.
7:43 p.m.
StealthBid is pretty good as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt @ Atari Museum [mailto:curt at atarimuseum.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:39 PM
To: General at smtp5.suscom.net; Discussion at smtp5.suscom.net :On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: good online sniper
I've been using auctionstealer.com for about 2 years now, its been a very
reliable service and its been around for sometime now.
Curt
Steve Thatcher wrote:
check out www.bidrobot.com
they charge a flat subscription fee. You can spend as little or as
much and it won't cost you anything but what ever you buy.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
At 04:57 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote:
--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/272 - Release Date: 3/1/2006
eSnipe charges 1%. Most of my purchases are less
that $100 so a few
cents for a service that allows me to do something else instead of
watching an auctio is worth it to me. To each their own.
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