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jBidWatcher - 2.0beta7

java-based ebay auction bid management

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All Time:	(4.2)
Version 2.0beta7:	(3.0)
Selected Version:	2.0beta7
Release Date:	2008-08-17
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 2.0beta7):	686
Downloads (all versions):	60,644
Price:	Donations gratefully 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 monitoring and sniping, several currencies (pound, dollar (US, Canadian, and Australian), and euro), drag-and-drop of auction URL's, an original and unique 'multisniping' feature, a nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Solaris, Windows, and MacOSX from the same binary, but provides platform-specific versions for Windows and MacOSX for ease of use.

What's new in this version:

The previous version (2.0beta6) was definitely better than 2.0beta5, but exposed a number of issues that were hidden, including more launch failures, problems updating auctions, incorrect sort orders for currencies, repeated save errors, and more. The latest version should resolve those, and should also help with the occasional issue where the display configuration on Mac OS X would get corrupted, lose it's columns, and persist in that state. As a related change, this may also reduce long term memory usage on some systems.

This version is not expected to resolve all of the after-auction-updating problems, move-to-completed oddness, auction duplication issues, or problems upgrading from 1.0.2. This version may expose other issues that were hidden behind the fixed bugs, but it should still be a better version than 2.0beta6 for most people.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Java 1.5 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0beta7:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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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

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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!