Ebay's policy of shoot now & ask questions later is well renowned and yet, the real villains, escape the net. I can't imagine that ebay is anti snipers or see them ever preventing them as in the end, they make money, either because the sniper is successful or as they hope, the sniping bid pushes up the final bid price (which means more fees for them)

I can see that this topic is old, but I recently had a similar experience with eSnipe and had my eBay account suspended twice within 24 hours due to issues with unauthorized third party access according to eBay.

Should I even bother trying to sign up with AS or will I encounter the same grief I got from eBay as I did with eSnipe?

This statement . . .

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Originally posted by bea2les:
I can see that this topic is old

. . . seems to answer this question:

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Originally posted by bea2les:
will I encounter the same grief

There would be a lot more discussion on the forum if this was prevalent, but as always, best to ask the AS techies:
http://support.auctionsniper.com/

Hello bea2les,

Welcome to the Auction Sniper Community and thank you for your question. We have not had any customers report their eBay accounts suspended due to any services provided by Auction Sniper.

I would suggest signing up as we let you win 3 snipes for free. If at that time you would like to continue using AS, you would be charged 1% of the item price for winning snipes.

In other words, try us for free and see what you think.

Please let me know if you ever have any questions or if I can be of any help.

Respectfully,

Steve
Auction Sniper Product Manager

I am tempted, but I had another lengthy conversation with Ebay this morning and they pointed out that it is indeed a violation of their TOS to give out your ID and password to a third party. Is this new?

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they pointed out that it is indeed a violation of their TOS to give out your ID and password to a third party

Did they provide any public link to verify this?

user will not "...transfer your eBay account (including feedback) and User ID to another party without our consent;"

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Originally posted by bea2les:
user will not "...transfer your eBay account (including feedback) and User ID to another party without our consent;"

No. That means you can't transfer your account. It doesn't mean you can't "give out your ID and password to a third party".

Here's ebay's user agreement:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/pol.../user-agreement.html

I can't find any restriction regarding "give out your ID and password to a third party".

isn't transferring your ID the same as giving out your ID?

I can let someone drive my car, which is (in my world) the same as “give out your ID and password to a third party”. When I “transfer” my car to someone, then I no longer have the ability to determine who drives the car or not.

Again, I see nothing in the user agreement that states you can’t turn your ebay ID and password over to someone else. After all, a spouse would be considered a “third party”, and although I think it wise not to have a spousee bidding on the something using the spouser’s ID, I see no mention that it’s against ebay’s “TOS”.

Hello bea2les,

I just wanted to follow up. We have been around since 2001 and have not ever had a customer report the experience you had with the company you mentioned.

Again, I encourage you to try our services for free, so that you can feel satisfied that your sniping will be successful with us.

Thank you,

Steve
Auction Sniper Product Manager

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I can let someone drive my car, which is (in my world) the same as “give out your ID and password to a third party”. When I “transfer” my car to someone, then I no longer have the ability to determine who drives the car or not.

Car analogy is rather good!

In my mind, transferring one's eBay ID would be GIVING someone your ID to use for THEMSELVES -- purchasing & selling for THEMSELVES, not for YOU. Auctionsniper(AS) acts as a virtual assistent, bidding NOT for THEMSELVES, but bidding for YOU at YOUR DIRECTION. It would be similar to a boss, having to be in a meeting in the afternoon and wanting to manually snipe an auction ending during the meeting, giving a secretary his eBay ID info and directing her to bid in his behalf on a specific item at a specific time for a specific bid price. That is exactly what AS does programatically, and I would contend that in neither case was a "TRANSFER of ID to another party" involved.

In essence, AS is a third party "proxy" bidder for you.

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But, I think you have snuffed this butt out pretty well, eBay is kind of fickle, and if your account suddenly goes from a comatose state to something that resembles a frenzied school girl jacked out of her mind on Mr. Pib and diet pills who finds her Mom's Platinum card on the bureau, you solved your own Nancy Drew here, you probably tripped more red-flags than a hot, sexy 21 year-old "adult" entertainer's tax-return in the IRS Mainframe.

Wow, AS-Attack, that is poetic! I'm so impressed I took the time to sign up for the forum and verify the email to tell you so. You've got talent. Do you have a blog?