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Easy Bidder – the new sniping tool for Trade Me

It’s been a long time coming, but Easy Bidder (formally Trade Me Sniper and Snipe on TradeMe) is almost here!

History
Back when we first started Snipesoft, one of our main focuses was to develop and release a bidding tool (or sniper) for Trade Me.  For one reason or another, this plan has been put on the back burner… until now.

We decided the time was right to finish it up and get it out there for people to try.

What is it?
Easy Bidder is primary a bid management tool or sniper.  This means that it allows you to add bids to the system that will be placed on Trade Me at the last possible moment.  This has a few benefits:

• Set up bids when you’re at your computer and let them place later when you may not be around
• Avoid the bidding war. Since bids aren’t placed until the last possible moment you avoid driving the price up early on

Easy Bidder also provides a powerful groups feature, which lets you group several auctions together and bids on each one until one of them is successful.

When can I get it?
We’re almost finished implementing the essentials and will be releasing a beta version early next week.  If you’re interested in participating, please contact us and let us know.

We’ll put up a further post when we release the service explaining more about what it can do and how it can help you win those auctions.  Stay tuned.