posted on July 21, 2005 01:22:02 PM new
does any one know..... if some has placed a snip bid on an item does that register as a bookmark on ones my ebay page?
posted on July 21, 2005 04:23:17 PM new
Road thanks .... every time I get one of those spam "do you want to be a golden power sellar letters" I laugh and delete ... I looked at your response and thought DURN it must be catching!
posted on July 21, 2005 05:47:26 PM new
If you place a snipe bid (a bid during the last seconds of an auction) it will show up on your eBay page as an "item won", or as an "item didn't win" (whether or not you are using a "sniping service" to bid on an item)
posted on July 21, 2005 06:23:29 PM new
There is actually a auction data tracking service that DOES give "snipe alerts" when someone places a snipe (limited accuracy though) and it doesn't show if snipe is removed. It's been a while since I used it, so not sure if service is still around.
Snipes do not, of course, show on your "My eBay page" although I suspect eBay tracks that along with many other data that they don't share with sellers (how bidders/watchers/visitors find your listing, key words used to search, etc. etc.)
posted on July 21, 2005 06:54:35 PM new
Snipe bidding shows on the "My eBay page" of the bidder, just as a standard bid would.
The seller doesn't know if a snipe bid was placed or not (unless the service notifies the seller that a bidder used the service - there is at least one service that does that)
posted on July 21, 2005 07:01:53 PM new
Not to be argumentative, but a snipe does NOT show on your eBay page. Sniping services are completely apart from eBay as you well know. Perhaps you're confusing a "watched item" with a snipe?
The annoying "after the fact" emails that the seller gets when a bidder is successful with a snipe are a different matter altogether.
posted on July 21, 2005 07:27:26 PM new
Most of the sniping services have their own proprietary software to track an auction and don't need to use the Ebay watch function to track an auction. I would suspect that much of the latest sniping software that is intended to be operated on a local computer as opposed to a remote web site, would utilize the watch list. So the answer to your question is yes and no. By the way, my favorite color is plaid
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posted on July 22, 2005 05:28:53 AM new
Thanks everyone. Sometimes it just takes more than one brain ... esp mine!... to see all the angles. Business is so bad I look at bookmarks on my auctions and started wondering have those people placed snipE bids ... would those show up on this page? I never thought about the seperate software issue DUH! Oh for the fall and winter when I don't have time to think up this stuff!
