Ask HN: Friday Review - Ebay Sniper - PleaseSnipe.com

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This started out as a fun proof-of-concept because all of the other ebay snipers either weren't free or placed your bid with ridiculous time windows (~1 min).

I think the major hurdle is going to be getting people to feel comfortable handing over their Ebay username and password so the system can place the bid on their behalf, any suggestions on that part are welcome.

I thought ebay had a system to bid up to your maximum amount anyway while placing minimum bid interims? Doesn't that make this obsolete?

There is a lot of "gaming the system" that happens on ebay (typically to the disadvantage of the buyer), but this site has a lot of reasons to snipe as opposed to just using ebay's proxy bidding.

http://www.moyen.org/snipe/why.html

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