I tested JBidwatcher version 0.9.5, which was released in October. Of course you need to have an eBay account in good standing as well. jar format), which will run on either Linux or Windows. All you need to have is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the available binary (in. The program is licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL), and as such is freely available. JBidwatcher also provides auction tracking and other bidding tools, for greater control that what is available with eBay alone. JBidwatcher is a Java-based tool that does more than just place your bid in the final moments of an auction. You can do it manually, but its unlikely you’ll be as accurate as an automated program like JBidwatcher. Sniping means putting in a topping bid as close to the end of the auction as possible, so that no other bidder can come in and beat you. ![]() With the proxy system eBay automatically bids on the bidder’s behalf so that the high bidder position is maintained until another bidder exceeds the bidder’s specified top price. Most eBay bidders make use of eBay’s proxy bidding feature that allows the bidder to set the maximum price they are willing to pay. Luckily, you can fight back by getting your own sniping tool, courtesy of the open source community, which provides JBidwatcher, one of the best ones gunning. To avoid possible sniper detection attempts JBidWatcher could be changed to include several randomly chosen browser strings and a login interval (if there is such thing), which is randomly changed to +/- 60-120 seconds to avoid login pattern.Have you ever bid in on eBay auction item and thought you were going to win, only to see it go at the very last second for a bid just slightly higher than yours? Congratulations, you’ve been sniped. Then I stopped all ebay activity (JBidWatcher) over the night.Īfter reading your post this morning, my problems are magically gone. I deleted all cookies and caches, used another computer with another OS and browser after a clean boot. I tried to delete all former traces of my account my setup could have. It seemed the problems were bound to my account. Using an account of a friend of mine I never had a problem logging in while testing on this. The password was the correct in both attempts (autofill, because login information is saved in Safari on Mac OS X). The first attempt always failed and the second attempt prompted me for the security number. Using my account I wasn’t able to login into eBay without doing it twice. ![]() The same happened to my until this morning. In the browser, to see if the bid went through anyway. Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Wed Feb 02 14:00:: 5747544107 (> do it yourself! SONY ERICSSON UNLOCK KIT + CABLE!!!) – Bidding $12.00 apparently failed for an unknown reason. Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Bad/nonexistent key read in bid, or connection failure! Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Done Getting the sign in cookie. Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Found an unusual tag 7370… (t" tabindex=“3” value=“Sign In Securely >”>) Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Getting the sign in cookie. Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Being prompted again for sign in, retrying. Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Checking sign in as bid key load failed! ![]() Wed Feb 02 14:00:: Bidding $12.00 on 1 item of > do it yourself! SONY ERICSSON UNLOCK KIT + CABLE!!! Here is the log (with the debug option on): I’m using Your tool really rocks! Hope you’ll fix this problem! Thx When I log in manually (via browser) eBay does this very occasionaly, while with jbidwatcher happens every time. Everytime Jbidwatcher tries to login in, eBay asks for a new login prompt with visual confirmation (blurred numbers on colorful background).
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