Bidwatcher

I'm leaving this web site up just so that old links continue to work and as kind of a reference. About the only thing here that is still of any value is the documentation.

What is BidWatcher?

Bidwatcher is a simple program to make your life easier on eBay. It will watch auctions that you are interested in bidding on, and also auctions that you have listed for sale. It has an automatic snipe tool that lets you set your snipe amount when you see an item you are interested in, but the bid won't be placed with eBay until just a few seconds before the auction ends.

Bidwatcher will periodically update the information about the auctions you are interested in, and check for any auctions that you might have bid on outside of bidwatcher, or new auctions that you may have listed. Auctions that are close to closing will be updated more often, and Bidwatcher will use these updates to determine how much "network lag" there is. If the network is slow, Bidwatcher will automatically adjust your snipe times so that you won't miss out.

The source should build on just about any Linux/Unix box with minor tweaks to the Makefile. The static binary was compiled on my Debian 2.2 Linux box, so it should probably work on most versions of Linux. I've had reports that the binary also works on NetBSD under the linux emulator.

Download Bidwatcher

Bidwatcher News

Newer versions of Bidwatcher are usually announced on freshmeat.net, so keep an eye out for them. Sometimes eBay changes things and you will need an update immediately.

This fork of Bidwatch has been shut down 7 Apr 2002 I'm officially shutting down this for of bidwatcher.