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jBidWatcher - 1.0pre6

Java-based eBay auction bid management

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All Time:	(4.2)
Version 1.0pre6:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	1.0pre6
Release Date:	2006-03-31
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0pre6):	3,146
Downloads (all versions):	60,680
Price:	donations accepted

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Product Description:

A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), regularly search for auctions, and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management (that is, the relevant cookies are supported), several currencies (yen, euro, pound, dollar (US, Canadian, and Australian), and Swiss francs presently), drag-and-drop of auction URL's, a unique 'multisniping' feature, a nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Solaris, Windows, and MacOSX from the same binary.

What's new in this version:

Fix eBay's breakage of the 'add auction' and other functions.
Allow the 'Save complete' dialog to be ignored.
Update getting 'My eBay' items, so that it massively works better. Including pagination, duplicate reduction, and overriding the deleted state of items.
Make it so that searches can have a 'skip deleted items' flag, which you can enable/disable per-search.
Multisnipe properly cancels later snipes again.
Many better recognition features for titles and prices.
Keep SearchManager's window positions between sessions.
Preserve toolbar on/off status between sessions.
Incorporate Gabor Kuti's changes for multi-column sort, URL load paging, and a 'Total' column.
Properly update the login cookie after waking from sleep.
Some audio events are possible, although not exposed.
An advanced setting to not display thumbnails.
My eBay load works better, more thumbnails are recognized.
If you're not logged in, there's a tooltip on the bar that tells you why (and recognizes eBay's CAPTCHA, and warns about it).
'Bid anyway' works, for bid over BIN-price bids.
Filtering by currency.
A 'Properties' sheet for tabs, including custom columns and ended-auction destinations.
CSV Export function.
Printing improvements.
several minor improvements over the 1.0pre5 version, which was just an interim beta to vet this version.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Java runtime installed
Universal Binary

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0pre6:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(3.6)	Support:	(3.6)
Ease of Use:	(3.4)	Quality / Stability:	(3.9)	Price:	(4.4)

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Why does it try to connect to the authors website? - Version: 2.1pre4, 9/18/2009 10:40AM PST

MarkusWinter

I have monitoring software installed which tells me that it tries to contact the authors website - I would like to be asked and informed before that happens, especially as I enter my eBay password in the program.

Not happy.

The best eBay snipper out there for the Mac... Period... - Version: 2.0, 2/23/2009 07:18AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

Charles Teton

This has yet to fail for me, 2 years using, and picked up lots of bargains. Not sure why its still free, as other snipe apps, that don't work, charge quite a lot and I've bought most of them... Best of all jBidWatcher is now out of beta... Try it and make your own mind up...

Support issues... - Version: 2.0beta7, 9/8/2008 03:46AM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

cyberfox

Greetings,

Support is usually handled through the forum site, or the bug tracker, depending on the question. I respond to email when I can, but it's really not my highest priority. I prefer the other two, because answers can be shared among many users (and searched!), where email is one-to-one.

Also, if it seems like my responses are not very frequent, please understand that I do indeed have a full time job as a software developer, and a new baby at home. If you want to follow along with my development, you can visit the JBidwatcher commit log.

Give the latest version a try, report any bugs, and best of luck with your auctions!

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!