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- Price: Free to try (10-day trial); $14.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: June 30, 2009
- Total Downloads: 147,564
- Downloads last week: 90
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1634 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Have you ever been bidding on that hard-to-find, absolutely-perfect-for-that-special-person birthday gift, only to have some sniper zip in with two seconds left and steal it from you? All those hours you spent monitoring your bids and your budget, gone for naught.
If that situation is a recurrent nightmare for you, Auction Sentry might be what you need. It manages your eBay bids, showing the item number, name, price, high bids, and time remaining, in a familiar spreadsheet layout with control buttons on top. The simple interface lets you quickly access and monitor numerous auctions, and track your profits--or losses. Audio and visual signals alert you to new bids or auction closure, and the customizable sniping feature combined with clock synchronization ensures that you'll never lose an item to AuntMillie142 again.
In future versions, we'd like to be able to arrange bids by category and see a search feature integrated with eBay's own engine, but there aren't any major drawbacks here. You really only need Auction Sentry if you're an eBay junkie, but these days, who isn't?
Publisher's description
From Auction Sentry Software :Whether a buyer or a seller, Auction Sentry streamlines and automates tracking and bidding on eBay auctions. It automates bidding placing your bid as close to the end of the auction as possible (sniping). The intuitive interface displays your auctions in a color-coded grid, indicating which auctions you are winning, which you have been out-bid on, and which you have set up a snipe bid for. Also alerts you when an auction receives a bid.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.8 stars out of 1634 votes
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Version: Auction Sentry Standard 3.2.0
"Just Awful - Get Auction Magic Instead"
Pros: None i can think of
Cons: doesnt work and terrible support
Summary: Get Auction Magic - cream of the crop sniper for the same price as this
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Auction Sentry Standard 3.2.0
Pros: This was once a great program.
Cons: As far as I'm concerned, when these people bought Auction Sentry from Dan Hite, the original; developer, they screwed it up big time. What was once a very functional tool became unmanageable and they had the nerve to charge me money. Caveat emptor!
Summary: I don't like it because when I installed the verion issued after Dan Hite sold it to the new owners, it just didn't work right. I relied on AC. That cost me a lot of money.
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Version: Auction Sentry Standard 3.2.0
"Not worth the effort to load on your system"
Pros: The advertising was great!
Cons: After set up, lost the next three E-bay bids to other bidders. My bids didn't get posted using a 30 second setpoint.
Summary: Try Server Bidder - Ace Sniper - it's much better and more reliable.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Auction Sentry Standard 3.2.0
Pros: Was the best around until the past few months.
Cons: Can no longer use it with ebay UK as it only works with dollars. UK customers should be told at the point of purchase that this intended for US markets only. My older version worked fine with UK Sterling until it was updated.
Summary: Look for alternatives. Avoid until all the bugs are sorted out.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Auction Sentry Standard 3.2.0
"Do not use -- defective, not supported anymore"
Pros: I used it since 2001. It was the best around for years. Easy to add auctions, great sniping, status was indicated correctly if you won, lost or did not meet reserve. But no longer, see cons below
Cons: Lately, Auction Sentry no longer works well -- and there is apparently nobody supporting it. . 4 bugs: won't accept some auction listings , wrong bid count, no update if winning, and colors used to flag status don't work. It's useless to me.
Summary: I used to love it, but the company appears to be not supporting it, and it now has 4 serious bugs that make it useless.
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