Item Monitoring

Sure. Just set it up for a snipe as you would for anything else. Then you have until about 2 minutes from auction close time to cancel your bid if you decide you don't want to go for the item. Just be sure to cancel it before AS gets "locked in" as the end of the auction approaches. I do it all the time.

We actually dont have a way to do that since once it's in the system we would treat it as a snipe and start emailing you when you are being outbid and that means our computers would have to check the auction every few hours etc etc and that would take away from the resources doing real snipes etc.

Also one reason so many people snipe is they forget to check back on items they're watching. I used to do it allllll the time.

What you can do is put it in your watchlist on eBay. And watch it from your My eBay page.

When you are ready to convert it go to:
http://www.auctionsniper.com/importwizard.aspx

That will find all the items you are watching and will prompt you to import them as snipes.

Thank you

Thanks. Not the best solutions, however. It'd be so great to just have a way to add an item with a $0 amount bid, so it gets posted to the list but not actually sniped (yet).

Sara - is the http://www.auctionsniper.com/importwizard.aspx link actually available on the sniper web pages?

3rq - just snipe a penny on the item you're interested in watching - you're unlikely to win (a bonus if you do win for only 1 penny, unless of course it's a v.cheap Boeing 747 - postal charges would be enormous ) You'll get an annoying email when the auction ends - hit delete or set up an email rule to delete such emails...

HTH

O l i v e r

No snipe like the present!

There we go... that's a great idea!

Thanks!!

The issue then is that all of our system was designed to believe everything in the list is a valid snipe, so it would be sending you outbid notices and we'd be doing other things behind the scenes. Checking the auctions price 10-20 times over the course of the auction requires bandwidth which costs us money. On a snipe we'll end up winning enough auctions to cover the costs.

Perhaps it can be a feature we'll add in the future.