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Version: BidSage 3
"Awkward user interface. Buggy functionality. Barebones features."
Pros: It's free. And in theory (though I was never brave enough test the feature), since it places bids directly from your own machine, you don't have to worry about registering your eBay login info with some strange server.
Cons: The user interface is awkward and counterintuitive, and it looks like it was designed by a child. Screen elements respond strangely to mouse clicks. The interface is littered with annoying clipart and fuzzy text effects that serve no purpose except to make things hard to read.
Before the program will work, you have to go to the author's website and download the latest patch. And you will have to do this again each time eBay changes the design of their site.
Locating specific auction items is distressingly difficult. There is no browse option. There is only a basic text search feature that isn't powerful enough to be useful except for finding uncommon items. If you use common search terms that yield a lot of results, you will have to wait an eternity (sometimes hours!) while BidSage processes one result at a time.
The final straw for me was the buggy interface. Two out of three times when I tried to add an auction item to the program's Watchlist, the Item Details window bugged out. The only button on it that still worked was the "Bid Now" button, and there was no way to close it except to terminate the process from the Windows Task Manager. The only features that seemed to work right were the eBay/system time synchronization, and the paid advertisements.
I won't trust such a glaringly buggy and poorly written program to place legally binding bids for me. BidSage's best feature is its fully functional uninstaller.
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