quote:If there's a BIN price, just put in a manual bid at the current lowest bid. That will "convert" the auction to a regular auction. No more BIN. Nobody can BIN after any bid has been entered.
This is true for auctions that include a BIN and do NOT have a reserve price. However, if the listing ALSO has a reserve price, as long as the reserve has not yet been equalled or exceeded by the bid price, the BIN will stay available.
Say a listing has opening bid of $0.01,
a reserve bid of $50 (which we wouldn't know),
and a Buy It Now price of $100.
In this example, all top bids from $0.01 to $49.99 will not cause the BIN to disappear -- it will remain available until the current high bid in the auction is $50 or higher.
The OP has queried whether Auctionsniper could do something within a very specific limited window. The following conditions would have to be present:
1) The auction MUST have both a BIN AND a reserve price.
2) The bid the sniper enters into AS MUST be less than the (unknown) reserve price.
3) AS must monitor the auction closely enough to not miss executing the BIN AFTER the sniper's snipe bid has been exceeded but BEFORE the bidding exceeds the reserve price (at which time the BIN becomes unavailable).
4) AS must be able to execute a BIN.
First off, as far as I know AS does not have the capability of exercising a BIN. Next, I don't know if AS monitors listings so closely prior to the end of the listing as to avoid missing the window of opportunity specified in point #3 above. And finally, the above points #1 & #2 describe an application so narrow and specific, that were AS to make such a functionality available, the OP may be the ONLY user to find such a capability useful!
Um,...long post to say, no, AS can't do what the OP asked, nor is it likely such a feature will be added to the program anytime soon!