Todays Wall Street Journal (Jan 5/06) tested 5 sniping solutions. Auctionsniper.com was voted the best....they had the best performance i.e. best ability to win auctions. Way to go!
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WOW!!! That is kool! Wonder if you could furnish a link? I can't seem to find a reference to it.
Hi Baboonia.
Excerpts from the article (page D3):
To find the best bet for successful bidding, we tested five snipers for ease of use, and in a nail-biting grand finale had them bid against each other in four auctions to see if we could find a consistent winner. All the auctions were for girls’ party dresses, and each one ended at 10-minute intervals over the course of an evening. This gave the (sic) us time to adjust our maximum amounts and how many seconds before the end of an auction to bid.
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Auction Sniper, at http://www.auction-sniper.com, (sic address shouldn’t have “-” ) turned out to be the sniper to beat, winning three out of four auctions against our other snipers and charging only for the winning auctions. Logging in and entering auction information was quick and easy, but Auction Sniper also has a feature called Snipe It Now! that lets users install a button on their browser. When they find an item they want to bid on, Snipe It Now will automatically enter the item number in a pop-up box and set up the snipe automatically, making it the easiest sniper to use.
[Commentary:]
Four auctions isn’t necessarily a thorough test, but perhaps The Wall Street Journal had all the girls’ party dresses they needed.
I didn’t list the names of the other 4 sniping services, as I know how Sara hates when someone does that.
In a features matrix provided with the article, under “Auction Compatible”, The Journal only listed “eBay” and failed to list “eBay Motors” and “international eBay sites”.
Excerpts from the article (page D3):
To find the best bet for successful bidding, we tested five snipers for ease of use, and in a nail-biting grand finale had them bid against each other in four auctions to see if we could find a consistent winner. All the auctions were for girls’ party dresses, and each one ended at 10-minute intervals over the course of an evening. This gave the (sic) us time to adjust our maximum amounts and how many seconds before the end of an auction to bid.
. . .
Auction Sniper, at http://www.auction-sniper.com, (sic address shouldn’t have “-” ) turned out to be the sniper to beat, winning three out of four auctions against our other snipers and charging only for the winning auctions. Logging in and entering auction information was quick and easy, but Auction Sniper also has a feature called Snipe It Now! that lets users install a button on their browser. When they find an item they want to bid on, Snipe It Now will automatically enter the item number in a pop-up box and set up the snipe automatically, making it the easiest sniper to use.
[Commentary:]
Four auctions isn’t necessarily a thorough test, but perhaps The Wall Street Journal had all the girls’ party dresses they needed.
I didn’t list the names of the other 4 sniping services, as I know how Sara hates when someone does that.
In a features matrix provided with the article, under “Auction Compatible”, The Journal only listed “eBay” and failed to list “eBay Motors” and “international eBay sites”.