Gavelsnipe failed me.

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Originally Posted by sb1

Gavelsnipe failed on my last three ebay snipes, yesterday and the day before. After many years I have now switched to Gixen as others suggested. Hopefully their success percentage will be much better.

As an afterthought. If a bidder placed a snipe with both gavelsnipe and gixen as an insurance bid, I assume that you would not be bidding against yourself as they are both under the same Ebay user ID. I have often bid manually with a Gavelsnipe bid in place on an item and only got it for the highest amount needed to win, even though the Gavelsnipe max and the manually entered max bid were both higher than the winning bid.....

+1 Like you, I had 3 Gavelsnipe failures over the weekend after nearly a year since that last Capcha episode. I still don't comprehend why eBay discourages bidding this way. On one of Gavelsnipe's misfires, eBay's action cost the seller at least $50.

[UKCardGuy]

+1 for Gixen.

I've been using it for a while now and it works great. They have an android app too that makes it really easy to setup a bid for items in my watched list.

[Bored5000]

I had two Gavelsnipe failures tonight. Both items were under $50, so it's not a huge deal. But my bids were higher than the winner on each item.

I guess I have to make the switch to Gixen.

[kgibson]

I’ve been pleased with bidnapper.

[MikeGarcia]

.. I've used " EZSniper" since Hector was a pup ; it's click-simple and they snipe at just the last split second and they have saved me literally truly thousands of dollars because back in the bidding by clicking days I had the impulse control of a mobile home kitchen grease fire ...
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[slidekellyslide]

I switched to Gixen this past week and successfully sniped 2 auctions.

[D. Bergin]

Gavelsnipe doesn't seem to be working for me at all anymore. Had about 3 snipes in a row that got rejected for "Bid blocked by Ebay CAPTCHA", and the last couple didn't even register in the history. Just disappeared as if they never even existed.

Guess I'll have to check out one of the other recommended tools.