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Contributed by: alajuela Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 03:45 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

I am a long time JBidWatcher user [and the developer is very assiduous at keeping up with ebay and user requests], as well as some other auction tools before that. I tried Auction Hunter for the first time today, and after playing with it for an hour, paid to register it. I have a couple of small auctions today on which to test the snipe capability. I understand the "arms race" in which ebay engages--unethically it seems to me--to break the sniping capabilities of third party software. I also understand the crybabies who claim that sniping is unfair. Oh well. Even if AH doesn't work any more reliably than JBW did, its Cocoa foundation and OS X-like presentation is so much more attractive. And that alone made it worthwhile. I plan to share some suggestions with the developers, mostly along the lines of including some JBW-like capabilities. Among other things, I would like narrower rows, so that I can see more of my auction data at one time without having to scroll. And within the "All" view, I would like some more clear designations of those items I am bidding n, those that are Hot, and those I have set to snipe. Also, twice today it has beach-balled on me, so I had to knock off a point on stability. And while I do not think the price is unfair, I think it is a tad high; if support remains good, it will be worth it.   
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Very nice - alajuela

I continue to like AH very much, but I have noticed an increasing instability. Depending on how many apps I have running--it seems--AH will last as little as two or three minutes before it beach balls and then crashes. This instability is a serious issue because, while AH seems to snipe just fine, it cannot snipe if it has crashed. Therefore, I have been forced to monitor AH in order to ensure I get my snipes. So far, this has not been a huge deal, but it must in the long haul get fixed in order for this app to meet its potential.

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Sunday, March 02 2008 @ 12:55 PM PST


A few notes - PowerSolutions Srl

Hi guys,

we would let you know that we're aware of the slowness problem with large databases, and are working to solve the problem. We are adding a daemon program to support Auction Hunter operations, making it run faster and be less "memory hungry". This way you'll also be sure that your snipes will be executed even when the application is closed.

We are also working on a later release that will have an enhanced user interface and several interesting new features.

As for the narrower list rows, you can hide the image column (hit Cmd-J to enable/disable columns) or resize it horizontally: both of these actions will also affect rows height.

Should you have any additional feedbacks please let us know.

Thanks.
The PowerSolutions Team

PS. Being located in Europe, we are suffering the disadvantages of the very high dollar/euro exchange rate. This is causing us many problems, as a price of $29.95 does mean less than €18.00 when you consider also reseller commissions. This price is unfortunately too low to cover our costs, let alone earn something. We'll see if sales will increase in the foreseeable future, otherwise we'll need to consider a price increase to keep Auction Hunter alive... :-(

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Friday, March 07 2008 @ 05:21 AM PST