Coo, didn't know the new eBay interface did that

Gave a live countdown and bid update, relieving you of the need to
refresh the page all the time. It wasn't there when I last won
something (checks records) four days ago.

Adds a little frisson to the auction, does that, watching the seconds
tick down and the bids tick up. I got outbid in the last few seconds,
though :-(

Just for once, here's an eBay improvement that really is an
improvement. I'll have to see if it can be used as a substitute for
sniping: have your bid prepared and hit the button at, say, 10
seconds, to give the page time to reload for the 'confirm bid' click.
Does anyone know if the countdown facility still works if you've got
text entered on the page?

 

Does it matter?

Have two copies of the page open, one for reloading (or updating), the
other on the bid submission page waiting for you to hit confirm at the
right moment.

 

Now that is a *damn* good idea. You're not just a pretty face, you
know that?

You might just have put eSnipe out of business, actually.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, "TOG@Toil"

Eh? Surely everyone does that?

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I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

It sure does.

Steve

 

I'm exceptionally stupid and it never occurred to me.

 

Likewise, but I'd recommend biddingscheduler, because it's free.

 

<Checks site>

Bloody hell, today's a Learning Day. Didn't know about that either.

 

No, some of us just use jBidWatcher to do our bidding.

 

Have you tried jbidwatcher ?

 

no. The whole world is powered by people buying things that they've
seen advertised.

 

Certainly not.
www.snip.pl is where it's at, for me.

 

I just get a bit edgy when someone other than ebay themselves has my
login id and password.

 

I'm somewhere between fairly and averagely stupid and I've always done that.

 

In message
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at 03:20:45 on Fri, 7 Aug 2009, "TOG@Toil"

Does this work in firefox?

 

Yes

Paul

 

And opera

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Opening two windows as suggested above has nothing at all to do with
monitoring ebay 24/7!
it also has nothing to do with whether one has a job and needs sleep or not!
If you have time to log in and set up a snipe you have time to log into your
ebay account and bid the maximum price your prepared to pay, then let ebays
proxy bidding take its course! if your going to set your snipe to the
maximum you are prepared to bid it makes no diference than using ebays proxy
bidding!

 

Wrong.

 

Simply set up a buying-only account.