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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>I wanted to start a new thread so that people using gavelsnipe that were affected by the ebay &quot;hijacking&quot; situation would know that the service may not work for them.<br><br>I am 99% sure the problem with people getting locked out of their ebay account is coming from Gavelsnipe. Last night I changed my gavelsnipe password to my new ebay password and tested it today to see if the snipe would go off. It did NOT work....The reason stated? &quot;Invalid User ID or Password&quot;. <br><br>I'm glad I tested it out on something today that was of marginal interest to me because I have an upcoming snipe set on an item that I want very badly and I will not be relying on the snipe now.

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Posted By: <b>Todd Schultz</b><p>maybe Justsnipe too, since that is what I use--not Gavelsnipe. Twice in the last two weeks, including an hour ago, I was unable to log into ebay--it did not recognize my password, and each time I had to re-set the password. I received no &quot;hijack&quot; notices from ebay, although I get about a half dozen email messages from bogus ebay members that get routed to a spam folder and go unopened. This is troubling, as I have not tried to access ebay from anything other than my home computer for several months.

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Posted By: <b>Jon Canfield</b><p>Dan,<br><br>As you know, I had the eBay problem yesterday. After I got everything straightened away with eBay and set up a new password, I then logged into gavelsnipe and updated the password. Two hours after, I had a snipe go off without a problem. So, my gavelsnipe worked fine AFTER the eBay incident.<br><br>- Jon<br><br>======================================< br>For the premier online souce of information on baseball-related cigarette packs, visit <a href="http://www.baseballandtobacco.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.baseballandtobacco.com</a>

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>This is turning into a real cluster****. I wonder why gavelsnipe didn't work for me? I had been using it for about the last 6 months without a hitch and now right after this ebay problem it didn't work???

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Posted By: <b>marshall barkman</b><p>Dan.....i had the same problem with another sniper service about 6 months ago. I have not had any problems since then however.

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Posted By: <b>Jerry Hrechka</b><p> I haven't had my Ebay account hacked. <br><br>I had two snipes listed with JustSnipe, tonight, both went off as scheduled, so far no evidence of my Ebay account being hacked.

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Posted By: <b>marty q</b><p>i use e snipe and i a have had the same problem, also all of my snipes tonight did not register, blocked by ebay...i heard somewhere e bay wanted to do away with sniping, i think this is ebays doing not the sniping co's. if so that will suck !!!

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Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>I agree... this is Ebay's doing. As stated in the other thread, they are tightening security and trying to play the role of Big Brother. If you use a sniping service or dare to log in from a friends, hotel, or library computer, you are subject to being locked out. Another monumental Ebay blunder...

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Posted By: <b>quan</b><p>an ebaysnipepal.com coming? sniping services have been around for years and haven't had any problem security-wise...don't understand why ebay would all of a sudden take interest in it.

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Posted By: <b>D. Bergin</b><p>Another way for Ebay to move sellers and buyers away from auctions and towards &quot;Buy It Now's&quot;?<br><br>I swear sometimes Amazon has secret agents at Ebay destroying them from within.<br><br>

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Posted By: <b>Anthony S.</b><p>After reading all the horror stories the other night, I'm reluctant to use Gavelsnipe. A buddy swung by my place last night with his 6 year old daughter, and every 5 minutes I had to kick her off my computer in order to bid on one of the 50 or so Obaks that went off in rapid succession on Ebay.<br><br>&quot;But, I'm watching Sponge Bob...&quot;<br><br>&quot;Sponge Bob's dead. Get off the damn computer. Uncle Tony needs cardboard.&quot;