[mario]

Frank, registration makes spamming much easier.

It's certainly not my intent to offend anyone, and I don't see a forum account as a privilege made of gold. If you want a forum account, no problem, just email me.

[Cupid]

It appears that most spam is automatically posted with software and not, as you might expect, by individuals, so the measures that Mario has taken to prevent registration (which can be automated) and using captchas (which prevent automated posting) are enough to prevent the vast majority of spam posts.

It is certainly nothing personal, not even a preference.

[franc]

OK, understand.
No, too complicated then, I use gixen not often anyway, so I will keep outside.

I don't understand this policy where anybody without beeing registered can flush this forum with spam anyway (only a very easy captcha hindering) but registering is only individual.
But I guess this is not a spam matter, it is a personal preference who can go in and not by forum admin.
His room, his right.
Goodbuy

(wont read any answer, I guess)

frank

[Cupid]

You can't register yourself in this forum... only Mario can do that for you... if you intend to post in this area all the time then it can be worth asking him to do it for you.. requests are only accepted via email though... to the address on the 'Contact' tab above.

Unless you are going to use it a lot it really isn't worth being registered because the extra features are not very extensive.

Allowing users to register just attracts huge amounts of spam in this area.. the aim is to allow anyone to post here, no matter whether they have even used Gixen or not.. but to prevent spam being posted all the time.

[franc]

I ask how to register, because as guest, there no email notfiication, so I could easily oversee that somebody answerd here.
Easily.
As registered user there is normally (even in this clockold phpbb 2 forum type at least) possible to check the immediate email response CheckBox, normally.

[franc]

Thank you! This I didn't know, good!

And can you tell me other question, how to register in this forum?

frank

[mario]

Frank, go to the settings page, and look for multi-win groups. You have to enable this feature in order to use it. Then you can define how many items you want to win in a particular group.

[franc]

[Guest]

Thank for the explanation.
This is really right, 6$ is annually not mentionable, its rather symbolic.

You say that 6 seconds offset is optimal, so I guess it is right, this is your business and I am only a sometimes bidder, without much experience.

I cannot say anything about Goofbid reliability, I used it only once.

Well then, I will use gixen then futurely.

Thank.

frank

[Cupid]

From my own experience Goofbid was not reliable enough, for me... but we are looking back some years now since I last used it so it may have improved.

I wish anyone good luck trying other services, and I remain interested in their experiences if and when they choose to return here.

[mario]

francwalter,

Almost every sniping service has something that gives away for free, and some features that are used as incentive for users to subscribe. If I recall well (and I could be wrong), goofbid does not offer group snipes, something that's completely free on Gixen.

Different snipe times (offsets) is one of features reserved for mirror subscribers on Gixen. However the main one is reliability, something that's hard to measure on paper as no service provides this data.

While $6 / year is really a symbolic amount, note that Gixen also offers "Mirror chunk" subscription that provides the same benefit to occasional users. For the same price as annual subscription you can get six 15-day mirror chunks instead of annual subscription and use them at any time (they do not expire unless activated).

Finally, the benefit of different offset is vastly overstated. Personally I use longer, not shorter offset than 6 seconds (to have ebay bid increment rules work for me, not against me), and 6 seconds is a very sensible choice anyway.

[francwalter]

[Cupid]

Frank,

There are numerous discussions of this subject here, from these you will see my opinion that 6 seconds is later than the optimum, for me (and Mario), we prefer 8 seconds.

This implied assertion, by many that comment here, that since sniping involves late bidding then even later must be better, is wrong. Supposedly we gain wisdom and better judgement with age, that might imply that our leaders should be the oldest in our communities... however I think most would agree that is clearly not what we should aspire to.

It is certainly not a policy to disadvantage users of the free service, it is a compromise between differing requirements from users. However it is policy to make the free service less flexible than the Mirror service, this is by no means the most important feature of a Mirror subscription though... greater reliability is far more important to successful sniping.

[franc]

Don't want to complain, this gixen is a very nice tool!
But 6 seconds is a bit too slow, isnt it?
Other snipers do some 3 or at least 5 seconds, manual biding would be faster if the bidder sits in front of the article, so could strike gixen bidding.

Goofbay (free as well service, missing in the list of comparing other snipers) does have this feature.

At least could you do 5 seconds?
Why 6? Is this to have the free service worse than the paid mirror service?

frank

[mario]

Wolfi, I am not sure what you mean by adjustable bid timer, but if it is what I think it is, it's called "bid offset" on Gixen, and available values are 3,6,8,10,12 and 15 seconds before auction ends. Only 6 second time is available to free users, you need mirror subscription to access the other offsets.

Also, mirror subscription is available on Gixen english site only.

[wolfchicken123]

Hi again....

sorry for typing german before....

At first thx so much for ur nice ebay tool....

I am wondering, whether u might add some day a adujustable bid timer, like other ebay agent already got....

Best regards Wolfi