Topic: General Sniping Discussion / Good idea but...

I was with you all the way up to the paid for bit. I’m a student, so paying for something, when I’m already paying for bids is out of the question. But thanks.

I still have the same problem though. I mean right now I have a snipe listed that is 21 hours away. There’s no way I can guarantee remembering to keep the lid open and my Macbook switched on all that time.

Besides which it’s not very ‘green’ or environmental to need to have people’s computers switched on 24/7 just to do snipes.

I don’t know how it would work, but surely some kind of encryption of account details would work so that you could guarantee beyond question that there was no way you could read or access peoples account details?

If it looked and worked quite like JBidwatcher, I’m sure a lot of people would trust it.

Topic: General Sniping Discussion / Good idea but...

Good idea, but what I need is something like JBidwatcher that is hosted somewhere as an online App. Jbidwatcher is great when it works, but I can’t count the amount of times I’ve forgotten about a pending bid and have shut the lid on my Macbook (or laptop when I had one) hence missing out on the snipe.

It’s great if you keep your computer switched on all the time, but most people use sleep on their lap tops. Of course Macs sleep when you shut the lid whether you want them to or not (there’s no choice), which makes it too easy to forget that JBidwatcher is running. (Especially if a sale might be a several days away before completion).

Allowing snipes to take place when I’m away isn’t really enough. What I really need is to be able to make bids both whether I’m away, or whether or not my computer is even switched on.

Is there any way Jbidwatcher will ever make it online in any form in this way?