Comments on: Goodbye, Bid-O-Matic http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/09/09/goodbye-bid-o-matic/ The personal blog of Adam Nash Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:35:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael Orr http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/09/09/goodbye-bid-o-matic/#comment-25945 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:20:00 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=813#comment-25945 As it happens, there is an actual open-source tool (written in Germany, but works everywhere) actually called “Bid-O-Matic” (well, really Biet-O-Matic in the original German), which provides the functioin of group bids (I want X wins from this group of products) and bid-sniping.
It probably requires some techie-ness to use well, but works.
(check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/bom/)

]]> By: Coin Update http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/09/09/goodbye-bid-o-matic/#comment-25260 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:06:54 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=813#comment-25260 The bid sniping service I use offers a feature like this. I’ve used it only a handful of times. I was never even aware of eBay’s feature.

If eBay had made this Bid Assistant into basically a full fledged sniping service, it would have definitely gotten a lot of use, but probably changed the entire character of eBay by making sniping the norm.

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