Hi adwade,
As you can see on the Goofbid site they also struggled with the same problems Auction Sniper faced back in August with ebay account verification and captcha blocking.
https://www.goofbid.com/blog/update-p4465/
Auction Sniper has been working well for a while now and we have mobile apps that make it even easier to snipe, you should give them a try.
-Stephanie