Often I bid on several boxes of 50, 100 or 500 items (such as ammunition brass, small electronic parts, etc), with the goal of winding up with, say, 1000 items total.
Currently, if I need 1000 items, I might specify a limit of 2 auctions in the BidGroup hoping to get the two bags of 500, but I bid on 10 auctions of various qtys... As a result, I may only wind up with 100 items if the two auctions I happen to win were only for a bag of 50
... Conversely, if the two auctions I won were each for a bag of 1,000 items, then now I have way too many of the darn things 
So, It would be nice if we could manually enter a qty value into each Auction we bid on, since the qty cannot be automatically imported (qty would default to one, so BidGroups would retain their current behavior), and then I'd enter the min/max limits into the BidGroup, instead of the current max limit.
Bidding would stop when I acheive the min limit, and the max limit would prevent AS from bidding on too many large-qty auctions.
Let's say I bid on 10 auctions each selling various numbers of brass... So I would enter the qty's each auction is selling, then specify the BidGroup limits of say, min 1000 and max of 1500.
So... After I've won 400, say the next auction is for a box of 1,200. AuctionSniper would automatically skip that auction because it would result in a qty over the max (400+1200 > 1500). But, A.S. would go ahead and bid on the next 5 auctions if the current total is < 1000, and the running total would not exceed 1500 if the next auction were won. Thus, I'd almost certainly wind up with somewhere between 1000 and 1500 items, depending on the timing of the auctions, of course - there's at least less of a chance I'd wind up with too many or too few items.
Sounds like it'd be simple to program, although some people may not understand how to use it at first, or may forget to edit each auction's qty and wind up with way too many auctions won
- You could cut down on that by warning if the limit is higher than the sum total of the items in the bidgroup.Thanks
Charlie
[This message was edited by Charlie on April 18, 2003 at 05:28 PM.]