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automate eBay searches
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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OK I know about using eSnipe to automate bidding, but is there anything out there for Mac that allows you to automate the searching? I am pretty sure eSnipe does not do this.
I would like to automagically search certain terms on eBay every so often. Once an hour, once a day, etc. Any ideas out there? Of course, shareware/freeware is preferred but I might pay for the service if it's affordable. I missed out on a piece of gear yesterday that came and went in under an hour. If I had known it was available when it came up for auction, I would have been all over it.
I'm open to iPhone apps that do this, as well. Thanks in advance. Mac on!
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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What about just using the RSS links that should show up when you search? I don't know how often they update, but it might be good as a first pass. I'm sure some RSS reader can e-mail you when a feed changes.
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OK esnipe, I see that, good tip... but I would prefer to know on an hourly basis if there's a new item, so I can jump on it. I already check eBay first thing in the AM (and I get up very early).
So, I am still looking for an app of some sort which will automagically search eBay every X hours. I missed out on getting my gear this past Monday because an item came up at a very good 'buy it now' price and it was gone inside of two hours of the listing.
...I don't know what happened to esnipe's original post...
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You dont need an application!
Just make a search in ebay and click the [ Save this search ] button next to where is says how many results it has found!
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by climacs 
OK esnipe, I see that, good tip... but I would prefer to know on an hourly basis if there's a new item, so I can jump on it. I already check eBay first thing in the AM (and I get up very early).
So, I am still looking for an app of some sort which will automagically search eBay every X hours. I missed out on getting my gear this past Monday because an item came up at a very good 'buy it now' price and it was gone inside of two hours of the listing.
...I don't know what happened to esnipe's original post...
esnipe was a spammer, so he's gone.
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