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jBidWatcher is a Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (yen, pound, dollar [US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese], Swiss Francs, and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, a unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X from the same binary.
Currently it is only implemented for eBay,
Currently it is only implemented for eBay,
What's New
Version 2.5:
eBay-related changes
- Better handle inter-country bidding failures, and some odd eBay interstitial pages
- Removed Dutch Auction support, since eBay doesn’t support that listing type anymore
- A ton of eBay-driven changes for new page formats, different bidding forms, and more.
- Better image/thumbnail retrieval, and price detection
- Improve BIN detection on fixed-price items you’ve already bought one of, multi-purchase buys, and underbid recognition.
- Fixed some snipe failures that were due to misinterpreting eBay’s broken HTML.
- Better ended-listing recognition
- Add a ‘+’ tab for creating new tabs, to make it easier and more obvious
- Tweaked some minor UI inconsistencies
- Items move to their correct category after the fact, which looks a little odd, but means that items should end up in their appropriate categories without human intervention.
- Empty tabs have a little graphic in the middle; this will eventually get swapped out for some basic instructions, to make first-launch ramp-up time quicker.
- A bunch of (hopefully) improvements to the ‘first-run’ experience, including a simplified configuration screen.
- The ‘new update’ dialog got a makeover.
- Increased the default sizes on some dialogs, as monitor sizes have grown over the years
- Improve the thumbnail shown in ‘Show Info’.
- Focus should work better in all dialogs.
- Fixed some My JBidwatcher setup/configuration issues
- Improved response to waking from sleep
- Internal improvements, reducing exceptions and deadlocks.
- Improve performance
- Some data-logging improvements
- Preserve some snipe information after a snipe has completed.
- Signing Mac binaries so JBidwatcher doesn’t get locked out by Mountain Lion
- First pass at a multicast DNS service for wireless synch
- A purely opt-in metrics/analytics system so I can learn how folks use JBidwatcher in the wild.
- Brought back the scripting framework; JBidwatcher can now be scripted in JRuby
Version 2.5:
eBay-related changes
- Better handle inter-country bidding failures, and some odd eBay interstitial pages
- Removed Dutch Auction support, since eBay doesn’t support that listing type anymore
- A ton of eBay-driven changes for new page formats, different bidding forms, and more.
- Better image/thumbnail retrieval, and price detection more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:48,609 |
| Version Downloads:985 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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jBidWatcher is a Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (yen, pound, dollar [US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese], Swiss Francs, and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, a unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X from the same binary.
Currently it is only implemented for eBay, but it is abstracted suitably to work with any online auction site with a minimum of changes.
It is under active development, and issues are quickly responded to. Bug reports and feature requests are always welcome, as are praise and complaints.
Currently it is only implemented for eBay, but it is abstracted suitably to work with any online auction site with a minimum of changes.
It is under active development, and issues are quickly responded to. Bug reports and feature requests are always welcome, as are praise and complaints.
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Luka1975 reviewed on 08 Dec 2011
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Uetli reviewed on 02 Nov 2011
Does not work. I tried it for the second and last time.
"Snipe apparently failed, as the auction cannot be bid on anymore...." What the f...? 10 seconds before ending of the auction?
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pcharles reviewed on 05 Sep 2011
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Davidravenmoon reviewed on 01 Sep 2011
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Sometimes , when ebay changes site it takes some time for an update, but thats OK - non commercial develeoper.
I donate little money because i won some ebay aultions with it i wouldn had won without that.
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CharlesTeton reviewed on 23 Feb 2009
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db2 reviewed on 15 Feb 2009
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Great.
I cant understand why some complaining the look&feel of the app.
It is ok and good to handle !
For an maybe better look&feel you have to buy $$ shareware - thats it.
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http://www.jbidwatcher.com/beta/JBidWatcher-1.0.2pre5.app.tar.gz
Also, keep watching:
http://forum.jbidwatcher.com/forums/9/topics/1047
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19-Jul-2007 10:30am PDT Ñ
eBay changed a few pieces of their pages and as a result, JBidwatcher 1.0.1 is not currently working; I have a fix in the source tree, and will release it as soon as I can confirm that it works in the majority of cases. Thank you very much for your patience!
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Uetli rated on 02 Nov 2011
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Kliere rated on 06 Feb 2011
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Gazzmanzx6 rated on 08 Dec 2010
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pcharles rated on 06 Dec 2010