Tip #4346 - eSnipe
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eSnipe
Are you an eBay
user? If so, have you ever been involved in bidding wars and lost
multiple times? Well, if you have, this tip may be very helpful to
you! Today, I'm going to introduce you to a Web page linked to eBay,
called eSnipe. eSnipe is designed to help solve all
of your bidding problems, to guarantee you a win almost all of the
time and to make you a much more successful bidder. Read on for all
the details!
eSnipe is a Web
site that allows you to effectively manage and win eBay auctions by
placing bids for you during the last few seconds of an auction. This
is known as “sniping” in the auction world and it helps
reduce bidding wars. With eBay, it can take three to 10 days to close
an auction. When that happens, people get excited over an item and
they overbid it as soon as an auction opens. eSnipe prevents that
from happening. eSnipe also protects bidders’ privacy, allows
users to place bids when it’s convenient for them and with it,
you can retract unwanted bids five minutes before the auction is over.
eBay doesn't allow you to do anything like that. Okay, so now that
you're filled in, let’s get started!
First, to be able
to use eSnipe, you have to sign up for it. To do so, just log on to
this site: http://www.esnipe.com.
Once you're there,
click the Join eSnipe Today! link. You will find
this link under the Member Log In section or under any of the other
links on the homepage.
Once you've found
it, eSnipe’s one page, three step sign up form will come up
for you. On this page, you need to do the following:
1.) Enter in your
personal information.
2.) Enter in your
eBay information.
3.) Choose an
eSnipe username and password.
When you have
all of that done, simply agree to eSnipe’s member terms and
then click Join eSnipe.
Now that you are
an eSnipe member, you will come across a box on the next page that
says eSnipe Bidwizard. This is the box where you
type in the item number for the item on eBay you want to bid on. After
you’ve typed in the item number, click Next.
The next page
you see is the most important one of all. This page is where you place
your bid. It has the auction ID and description, starting time and
ending time and it shows the current bid. Under the item's information,
there are three boxes and they are:
Bid Checkup
- The minutes before the bid time.
Buffer
Time - The seconds before the end of the auction.
Maximum
Bid Amount - Your maximum bid.
Lastly, once you
have filled in all of the above, you can go ahead and click Place
eBay Bid with eSnipe.
That's all you
have to do. Now, you know how to “snipe” an item on eBay.
Have fun!
~ Mike Pettinato
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