Hi,

I have two small suggestions for an improvement of myibidder.

I really like this tool and use it often. It saves me time, since I don't have to sit on my computer to bid on several auctions. But there are two little things which would even yet improve it.

1.) if you bid on two auctions which are in the same group with maximum won items 1 and the auctions end just some seconds after each other, myibidder probably will bid on both of the auctions even if the first bit already won an item. It seems that the second bid goes out no matter if the status of the first bit is already "synchronized" or not.
E.g. over my account I won two items of "Samsung Galaxy W" but intended only to win one. The two auctions were just ending 6 seconds apart from each other. I knew that and set the snipe interval of the second bid just to 2 seconds, but it won anyway!
So it seems that the success of the first bid was not recognized by myibidder before the bid for the second item went out and this is not quite optimal.
I would suggest you two small changes for that:
first: display a warning when the user enters a bid for a group in which there is already an item which ends near the newly added item (probably the snipe interval has to be considered here and the number of items to win for the group).
second: change the sniper logic so it doesn't place a bid for an item in a group for which only x items are left to win and there are = x open bids placed by sniper for items in this group which are not synchronized yet (note: this logic would work independend of the snip interval the user chose)! The benefit for the user in contrast to not accepting the bid at all would be, that with this logic the user would know that the second bid is placed if the first bid was not placed (e.g. because the items price was already higher etc).

More complex but even more usefull would be a logic which defers the bid until the status of the "open" bid is known.

2.) My second point is, that you probably use www.ebay.com by default. Is it already possible to set up the country specific site of eBay? if not it would be really great if you could make the eBay start page configurable, so it would be possible to snipe over the users ebay-page. In my case it seems that if I buy something over myibidder and have some problems with the item, I have to clarify that over the us-website and thats very inconvinient, since everything is in english and probably also the legal situation is different if I buy over the us-website instead of the german.

Kind Regards & keep on the great work

Jürgen

Hi again,

I just wanted to add, that I checked my settings and for me eBay Germany was already set up, but one of the items I won was purchased in eBay US. Could this be caused by myibidder? or is the reason for this that probably the item was offered over the us webpage (the item was offered by a guy in germany and he seems to have used an iPhone app to create the item).

Kind regards
Jürgen

1) I have the following listed on the Groups page:
http://www.myibidder.com/login/faq/2/#q12
If a user did not read this, he/she would not read the warning sign as well. You just need to be aware of it when setting up the snipe.

2) The setting is called "My Snipe Target". Currently, available options are Auto (eBay US most of the time), eBay UK and eBay Australia.
It does not matter where the listing was created, you can bid from other eBay sites for that listing.

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Last edited on Mon May 21, 2012 12:48 PM.