hi,

In order to profit from combined shipping costs, I would like to
be able to bid on an item under the condition I won another one.

I would also be interested in this. I want to bid on a few similar things that end within a few hours of each other. This would enable me to bid on all three, but not to accidentally win all three. Thanks for such wonderful software.

Dawid

What you want is already available in JBidWatcher. See the help on “Multisnipe”.

What reverseeng is asking for is the opposite of this – he only wants to bid on the second item if he he has already won the first one.

Hi All,
I would like this feature too. I am in England and there are two items in America currently at 9.99 dollar each. Both have shipping costs of 25.00 dollars and after contacting the seller, the combined shipping would still be 25.00. Fortunately the item I value more highly comes up first, but then just one minute later the other item comes up. I would like to be able to snipe the first item and ONLY if I was successful then snipe at 20 dollars less the sale price of the first item. It would be acceptable, but not ideal, to be able to have a fixed snipe on the second item but only if I won the first. There is no way I want to pay 25 dollars carriage on the second item if I did not win the first.

As one developer (C++/Objective C CAD programs on Mac) to another, well done with writing this program but there seems to be a problem deleting items and an update problem when I do so as well but maybe its only on OS-X and not Windoze. I am a new user (my first snipe has not been actioned yet and at first I set the snipe time to 5 seconds as I would do manually but reading this forum I increased it to 12 on your advice. Thanks.)

I would love to see this feature as well. I ran into this situation a couple weeks ago in the obverse of RogerH (Brit seller).

+1 on the above.

Great idea! Where do I sign? ;)
In other words: sign me in, I’d love that feature too!

Great minds think alike! I think that conditional sniping to conserve shipping costs is a great idea. Of course, there is always the consideration that you win the first item and NOT the second, paying full shipping for one item, but this feature would at least increase the odds of reduced shipping by successfully sniping a highly desirable item and then making the shipping more reasonable by adding some other items from the same seller that you might not want otherwise.

This might be a 2-step process – first defining an item that has an active snipe as a “Conditional Snipe Target”. Then, when defining a snipe on a second item (from the same seller as a precaution), I could select Snipe or Conditional Snipe. If I chose the latter, a list of Conditional Snipe Targets would display, allowing a selection. If the snipe target was won, the conditional snipes referencing that target would convert to normal snipes and the snipe target removed from the list. If the snipe target was not won, all related conditional snipes would be disabled.

Glenn

YES
I hope the following proposal helps to visualize how this might be coded:

I want to be able to define a group of items, and then define optional triggers for any of the items in the group. triggers are not global, but are defined within the group and the logic of all of the triggers is only executed each time the (won/lost) status of an item in the group changes.

Group PETS
1 dog
2 cat
3 parrot
4 mouse

examples of triggers would be as such:

if PETS 1 won then STOP ALL BIDDING in group PETS

if PETS 2 won then STOP ALL BIDDING in group PETS

if PETS 1 lost then STOP ALL BIDDING in group PETS and START BIDDING group SECOND CHOICE PETS

if PETS 1 won then KEEP BIDDING in group PETS and also START BIDDING group SECOND CHOICE PETS

I also want to be able to define a CONDITIONAL group. A CONDITIONAL group will NOT be bid on UNLESS a trigger from ANOTHER group says to do so, such as the above trigger example.

Conditional Group SECOND CHOICE PETS
1 dog with evil grin
2 cat with stubby tail
3 parrot (mute)
4 mouse (smells funny)

if SECOND CHOICE PETS 3 won then KEEP BIDDING in group SECOND CHOICE PETS and also STOP ALL BIDDING in group PETS

It would probably be a good idea to have some ready made GUI templates that would allow the user to provide some auction numbers to generate the required groups and triggers for some common scenarios such as:

• I only want 1 of the ipads in this group of ipads (insert auction numbers here)

• If I win this item (insert auction number here) then try to also bid on this other item (insert auction number here) so I can benefit from combined shipping