jBidwatcher for Mac
Monitor eBay auctions (release candidate).
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jBidwatcher overview
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. Bug reports and feature requests are always welcome, as are praise and complaints.
What’s new in version 2.99pre5
Version 2.99pre5:
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- ‘Cancel snipe’ wasn’t working. bad
- Deleting an entry was double-deleting, which was throwing an exception because the second would fail.
- If the user has configured a browser and forced it to override the auto-detected one, use it.
- Various dialogs (including ‘Add’) weren’t quite fitting on Windows and Linux.
- Give a nicer error if trying to use a version of OS X prior to 10.8.
- Try to mitigate the awful in-place upgrade problem where OS X caches the launch information incorrectly.
- Speed up apparent startup time by moving some script loads until after the UI has initialized.
- Fix a long-standing bug that JBidwatcher would lose DNS information for ebay.
- First pass at a better Linux deployment target.
jBidwatcher for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.99pre5
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May 4 2016
Version: 2.99pre5
Used to be great. However, can't log into eBay now because eBay now requires a Captcha from sniping apps. Captcha doesn't appear when logging into eBay directly. Until this is fixed, JBidwatcher is useless.
Apr 13 2016
Version: 2.99pre5
The 2.99pre5 disk image seems to be missing, the link downloads an html file, both here and at the JBidwatcher website.
Jan 11 2016
Version: 2.99pre4
Latest version will not open for me (2.99pre4) had to go back to previous version.
Oct 8 2015
Version: 2.5.6
jBidwatcher used to work, well. In the past it performed successful snipes for me. But now there is a problem. I will not be using this application any longer as of October 2015. The problem is that my last two snipe attempts were ended 13 or so minutes before the actual end of the ebay auction. The jBidwatcher event log states "Cancelling snipe, auction is reported as ended.". I went to the jBidwatcher Forum and found others are having the same problem. No solution is offered. The application has not been updated for over 16 months. This means for ebay you'd be foolish to rely on jBidwatcher for your snipes. A derloper must keep up with ebay's frequent API updates. This developer does not. Consequently, jBidwatcher is officially dead in the water for me..
Feb 14 2015
Version: 2.5.6
So i have to install Java 6 to make this software work. Java 6 has several bugs and security issues, so no jBidwatcher for me. Too bad as i have used in in the past on older OS X versions without problems.
