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DESCRIPTION
Auction Hunter is a native Cocoa application for OS X, built to make your life easier on eBay. It allows you to monitor auctions that you are interested in bidding on, or that you would like to simply observe and store for future reference.
Main features of Auction Hunter are:
- Automatic bidding and sniping tools, that let you set your snipe amount for an item you like, so that Auction Hunter will place the bid with eBay until just a few seconds before the auction ends. This allows you to not attract attention to the auction, causing price to go up. You can also easily cancel or change the snipe when you like, before
the auction ends, not risk anything.
- Searching tools, that automatically let you to save and run the same searches on eBay, storing the results in user defined folders. You can also specify a time interval to be used to periodically run the searches. If new items are found, Auction Hunter will change the folder color, so you immediately know there is something new. New added items are also highlighted in yellow!
- Thanks to a built-in powerful database, Auction Hunter allows you to store thousands of auction listings (with thumbnails too!) so you can
search through all saved items and what they sold for, even for past auctions no longer available on eBay. If you like, you can also save the full content ofÊ the item’s web page, and open it later with
Safari for future references.
- Auction Hunter periodically updates the information about the auctions you are interested in, and let you know at first sight what is going on, due to the use of colors and bold typeface. For example, a red line says that the auction received no bids or that reserve price is not met, while a black line means that the auction will sell, but
not to you. A green line says that you are the high bidder. A line in bold face font, instead, means that you placed a bid on that item. Colors and bold typeface are combined to provide all possible auction status.
- Auction Hunter provides support for all international eBay sites, and also automatically updates all the categories when you launch the
application.
- If you have more than one eBay user IDs, for example one for your hobby and one for work, you can use them at the same time!
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2.6:
- [BUG FIX]Fixed a time zone conversion for items listed on ebay.fr and ebay.es.
- [BUG FIX]Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing, due to some item page layout changes.
- [BUG FIX]Enhanced high bidder recognition.
- [BUG FIX]Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing on ebay.fr and ebay.de, due to some item page layout changes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (including Leopard).
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| Auction Hunter User Reviews (22 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 27 2009 |
ZX Does Auction Hunter fully functional under 10.6?
(Version 1.2.6) | |
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 | Mar 25 2009 |
PCHARLES67 I was a long time JBidwatcher user, but for a while it seemed like you could never know whether the author had updated its interaction with ebay, so I went looking for an alternative and found Auction Hunter. I was a bit concerned about paying for something when I had been using a freeware version for so long, but I have been really happy with the way it works.
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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| Feb 22 2009 |
MEMPHISBIRD I have been using Auction Hunter since it was in beta, and I have never had any problems with sniping. In fact, it works so well that I have bought tons of things I don't even need! I even have it set at 3 seconds and it has always worked for me. I've never had an issue with it locking up my Mac, and I can freely move my categories, auctions around without issue. In fact, I have all the auctions I've ever bid on or listed still stored in Auction Hunter. I also tried Jbidwatcher and a couple of others when I first started looking for auction applications, but I liked Auction Hunter the best and I decided to go ahead and buy it when it came out of beta. All applications have some bugs to be worked out, and it is important to note how quickly and effectively a developer responds. It sounds to me like this developer is trying hard to help you, JBSSM, but you don't seem to want it. I think you should take the kindly offered refund and go buy yourself something on Ebay that will improve your disposition -- with Jbidwatcher, of course.
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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| Feb 17 2009 |
DARTH BROOKS Overpriced. I don't need the snipe function, so considering other free software, I'd pay $15... maybe.
(Version 1.2.4) | |
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| Feb 23 2009 |
PCHARLES67 What sort of idiot gives a negative review for something they do not use?
(Version 1.2.5) | |
| Jan 25 2009 |
TIGERFREAK cannot login since 14.01.09 - even not able to watch auctions only, nothing. instead of buying this soft, i better have thrown it out of my window... :-(
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Jan 22 2009 |
HI5PAL This app is practically never working either properly or at all. Presently it's not allowing to login to your account (and thus it's not snipping) since the 14th of January. Also, as of today it's not working properly to get the data of the auctions (so, no time left and no auction title). My advice is to just get the free program AuctionSieve or JBidWatcher to track the auctions and then bid manually (JBidWatcher is also not bidding but seems more resilient to eBay page changes and keeps giving the auction data correctly).
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Jan 9 2009 |
ZX I love this app...Nice and responsive developer, frequent updates and does the job. btw - i would pay for an upgrade today if the developer will just redesign the UI to be a bit more modern...
(Version 1.2) | |
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 | Nov 29 2008 |
if you are not happy with Auction Hunter, please send us an e-mail and we will issue a full refund. We certainly don't want anyone feel bad about their purchase. While of course we would like to work with our customers to get Auction Hunter up and running, unfortunately you never send us a problem report, so I don't think it's too fair to give us a 1-star for each of your comment here. As I already said, eBay HEAVILY changed the rules so we're trying to fix all the problems as fast as we can, also with the help of a very supportive user base that is in touch with us. And please note that in 1 year we added a lot of new features, and more will come. Thank you for your comprehension.
(Version 1.1b2) | |
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| Nov 28 2008 |
JBSSM Snipping is not working all together. I've lost 6 auctions by now simply because it doesn't snipe and it doesn't even give an error message, nothing ... it just lets the time pass. Since I bought this software, more than 1 year ago, the developers haven't add any new features. This is a paid software, when we buy it we cannot really demand new features, but it's our right to demand that it works and it simply doesn't work!
(Version 1.1b2) | |
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| Nov 18 2008 |
I don't know why you are so hostile to our product, but please note that we aren't exactly twiddling our thumbs as we are working without rest since the end of October to fix a problem introduced by eBay! We have had to rewrite a lot of code in order to fix the application: Auction Hunter is now forced to use local eBay sites for login, bid, snipe, search and extract informations about listed items. Of course all of the above activities require the application to understand local eBay site pages, with all of the possible combinations... As you may understand, this is a very deep change to our program, and we need to test it well before releasing it, to avoid bad problems. IÂ’m sorry if you feel frustrated, but just try to think how we are feeling. Auction Hunter is a paying software, and for this reason we are doing ALL we can to fix it as soon as possible. Thank you.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
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