was curious to know how do u handle so many automated bids

[virgilwylie]

hello Mr. Mario, i was curious to know more about the speed of the automated bidding system. and how html parsing is done so quickly. i work on php and it took me around 8 sec to log in to ebay using html parsing... BTW the work you do here is exceptionally good. keep up the work.

[Cupid]

The time taken for ebay to respond and to perform the processing is taken into account in the software so that the bid ends up being placed at the time it was scheduled to happen.
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[mario]

virgilwylie,

Gixen obviously does not start the login process at the offset time - it does it much sooner. Only the final bid confirmation is sent at the offset time, which usually results in your bid being recorded at ebay either at offset time of offset + 1 second. If you do the timing correctly, there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to achieve the same or similar if the server you are running this on has a good internet connection.

[virgilwylie]

Thanks Mario and Mark. One more thing, do gixen runs the php script to book a bid through cmd or just normal way.. i got the same kind of website which i have to achieve. hopefully i can get some tips from you to start. i scraped the search description now i want to bid. but the procedure is awkward. had to go through login then bidding... this is tiring man. Hats off you pulled it off so nicely..

[Gixen]

[Cupid]

Sniping sites are not permitted to use the ebay API so the only way they can do it is by parsing html and bidding through the same process that a user with a browser would use.
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[mario]

virgilwylie, Gixen backend does not use PHP to execute snipes. I doubt that you can make a sniping site and have it operate in an economical and reliable way by using scripting. But of course I could be wrong.