Gavelsnipe failed me.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

I have not used this i a long time, saw something last night (from PWCC)
Knew if i had a shot, it needed a snipe.

why, oh why?

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

why, oh why?

I dont know why, i saw a card, about what i was looking for (psa 2)
I guess i could always wait to see REA has in store.

I signed up for Gixen now, it was simple to do. So, next time is shame on me.

[BruceinGa]

A month or two ago I lost 4 items because Gavel Snipe failed to execute.
This past Tuesday I won 8 items of 32, a result of signing up with Gixen.

[Butch7999]

Anyone here tried https://www.auctionsniper.com/ ?
Is that currently working on eBay?

[obcbeatle]

JFYI ... I too was having problems off & on with Gavelsnipe for about a year (CAPCHA) so after posting here & then seeing this thread I recently signed up for Gixen. I've only used it once so far but it worked on eBay a couple days ago. FWIW.

[Leon]

I used auctionsniper for years but then found all of the free services. I don't know anything about them any longer but they used to charge for wins. I still use gavelsnipe for now.

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Anyone here tried https://www.auctionsniper.com/ ?
Is that currently working on eBay?

[Butch7999]

Thanks, Leon -- been using GavelSnipe for eons but their recent difficulties in sniping eBay auctions
had us looking for a free/cheap alternative. AuctionSniper does appear to charge (a nominal pittance)
for winning snipes, but what we were wondering was whether they, too, were now having their snipe attempts
blocked by eBay.
Gixen is probably the better way to go (for now), but we managed to win a couple auctions last night
with manual snipes anyway...

[JollyElm]

Does anyone know how instantaneous these sniping programs are?

I don't utilize any of them, so in bidding the traditional way on ebay, I used to manually 'snipe' at the ten seconds left mark, then I moved to 4 seconds, and last night I threw in a bid on the downside of 3 seconds. It always seems to take a (mind numbingly anxious) second or two for my bid to catch and go through, so I have to be careful how long I wait to jump in. (The goal, obviously, is to get my bid in just as the auction closes, in order to shut out other bidders.) The question is, if someone is using a sniping service, does it even matter how long I (or other people) wait to pull the trigger, or is it moot, since their electro-bid (just coined that phrase) will be a nearly instantaneous, split second hit??