Does anyone manually snipe as well, JUST IN CASE?

[jns]

I've never used gixen (or any auto-sniping thing) before, so I'm excited, but nervous that something may go wrong. Has anyone tried to manually snipe at the same time just in case? I'm assuming it won't make a difference in the end ... or will it mess something up?

[Cupid]

I don't, and I wouldn't recommend it.

With a Mirror subscription Gixen is more than reliable enough for me.

It isn't that manual bidding makes Gixen less reliable, but often people block Gixen being able to bid if they manually place the bid themselves before Gixen was due to do so.

Then they think that Gixen has not worked, when, in fact, it is their own action that prevents their bid being placed by the Gixen server.

What I recommend, if you wish to test the service. is in the first instance scheduling snipes on items that you are not particularly concerned about whether you win or not... that way you can build confidence about just how reliable the service is going to be for you without risking missing out on deals you really want to take,
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[rickajho]

[jns]

I guess I was just thinking of when ebay craps out with the verification or "change your password" crap - otherwise, Gixen sounds very reliable!

[Gixen]

[rickajho]

If that happens, considering the max. offset for placing a bid via gixen is 15 seconds, by the time you realized gixen was having a problem placing your bid it would be too late to react anyway.

There are certain things you can do to minimize the risk: Make sure you don't have a weak eBay password. And don't bid on items that all end at the same time (yeah - some sellers do that) or within seconds of each other. Those conditions send up a red flag to eBay.

Of course eBay occasionally spazzes out, changes something in their software/web site, and that creates headaches for almost everyone - especially Mario who has to figure out what they changed. It's thankfully a pretty rare issue.