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cniper.com
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What is cniper.com?
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- A barebones, no-nonsense auction service that places your bid in the final seconds automatically.
- We don't have a pastel logo, we don't hold your hand, we don't charge.
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Why do you ask for my ebay login information?
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- In order to place bids for you, we need your correct ebay user login and password.
- We will never divulge your user information to third parties
- We will never sell your e-mail address to marketers or spammers
- If you don't have an eBay user account, you can get one here.
- And if you want to create an eBay store to sell your stuff, you can do that here.
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Can I trust you with my information?
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- Only you can decide.
- We offer 128 bit secure login, bid receiving and viewing. This is the same security algorithm used by on-line banking facilities.
- Keep in mind that every time you log-in to ebay or place a bid manually you are sending your password over an unsecure network in plaintext.
- cniper.com is two server hops away from the super-secure Exodus.net hosting facility used by Ebay. This is a much more secure way to place bids than over your local cable or telephone network which runs under your neighbor's yard.
- Learn more about cniper.com's creator's research here
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What currency does cniper use to place bids?
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- cniper is completely currency neutral. Whatever currency the auction is started in on ebay will be the currency of the bids placed by cniper. If you put in a bid of 150, and the auction was started in Euros, the bid will be 150 Euros, or if the auction was started in pesos, it will be 150 pesos.
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Why is the e-mail field optional?
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- Because you deserve the right to keep your in-box clutter free. If you provide an e-mail address, we'll send you a confirmation. If you win, e-bay will send you one anyway.
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Do you guarantee bid placements?
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- No. Use at your own risk.
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What happens if I place a bid and it doesn't get posted?
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- Cry. Hire professional mourners.
- If a bid is that important to you, snipe it in person.
- Or pay another service to do it for you. They need the cash to pay for their logo.
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Why do bids not get placed?
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- Network issues are the primary bottleneck to bid placement. What generally happens is that bids go well for weeks at a time with very few misses, followed by a period of sporadic reliability due to virus traffic on the net, ebay problems, ebay bid flow changes (changing the links to key pages, or variable required to place a bid), ebay format changes (they have changed they way they formatted dates once, for instance).
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I thought I removed a bid but it was still placed. What happened?
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- Bids are locked in 10 minutes before firing. Deleting the bid from your firing log won't stop the bid from being placed within the final minutes.
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What is cniper.com running?
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- PHP5, Apache and mySQL on Linux. This is a 100% Microsoft free experience
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What is ebay's position on sniping?
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From: daphne@ebay.com
Topic: Re: Snipers How To Workshop
Just for the record, contrary to what some people think, there's no rule against "sniping," or bidding in the last moments of the auction. You will hear all kinds of debates about which method (proxy bidding or sniping) is more effective, and eBay would recommend proxy bidding, but bidding at the last moment of the auction is perfectly acceptable and legal. :)
Daphne
eBay Community Development
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