This is a pretty cool piece of software, thanks. I stumbled upon it while looking for a free alternative to AuctionSentry, which has got a bit greedy now.

There’s one non essential feature I thought of that would be pretty cool though. I use Hellanzb on Ubuntu for usenet downloads, and it has a feature where you can set up a gmail email account, and it will periodically check it for instructions. So if you are away from your PC you can email the gmail account and queue something up for downloading remotely.

I run JBidWatcher on a home server, and something like the above would be pretty cool – I could set up snipes from work by sending an email of maybe the Ebay item id and my snipe amount, maybe also the time delay, and JBidwatcher could pick up that email and add it to it’s list, so by the time I get home, the item is mine.

It’s not a major big deal or anything, it would just be a cool feature.

hey,

you can try Logmein, its a free remote control apps. it’s windows ( maybe mac now) and you can take control of your pc remotely.

really easy to install on your computer. The computer from where you access can be mac or pc and there nothing to install, it use java. i use it to help my sister and my girlfrind to repair their computer from my house, since you can do everything in the remote computer, you can also do your jbid thing. much less hassle then a email config.

great! did i say it’S free ( no time delay, or expiration,)

i like free thing, thanks again morgan :)

It’s a feature that’s easy to script yourself if you’re on Ubuntu (or another Flavour of Unix).
You can use a .forward file to pipe your incoming mail through a program/script. This script can then check the mail for instructions and use wget to address your local bidwatcher and add auctions, snipe on them, etc.
Don’t forget to add some sanity check and caution so noone else can instruct your bidwatcher to bid on something you don’t want to buy…

Don’t forget to add some sanity check and caution so noone else can instruct your bidwatcher…

I’ll second that. Don’t allow ANY remote access to your machine without considering the security issues….