Snipe eBay auctions using JoyBidder mobile web app

JoyBidder eBay Auction Sniper Mobile Web App is in beta test now.

It can

• snipe eBay auctions
• import items from your eBay watch list
• add items by eBay item number(s)
• refresh item list
• sort and filter item list

It has less features than JoyBidder Pro Desktop and not as fast.

However, it runs on the web browser of your mobile device and doesn't need to be kept running to snipe. It should be useful for many of us.

It is in beta testing now accepting a limited number of testers.  Contact joybidder.support@gmail.com, if you want to participate the free beta trial. Each beta tester gets 5 free server sniping credits to use for testing.

Load http://www.joybidder.com/mobile  in your iPhone/iPad/Android or desktop web browser and give it a try

[update] slow connectivity to our web site

If JoyBidder.com is slow to load since last night, so this is what is happening.

"The connection is broken of at a node in the middle of the network pathway (in between some Internet providers and our data center)".  

The IT guys at our hosting service is working on it. See the screen capture of the announcement from our web site admin console. The server sniping and cloud backup and restore service are still working, although it could be slower and you may need to try one or two more times get the data submitted successfully.

Only a small portion of our users are affected.



Updated May, 5th, 2014
The problem is still not yet resolved. Looks like Comcast users are affected the most.

Introduce JoyBidder Server Sniping Service

What is JoyBidder Sniping Service?

JoyBidder sniping service submits sniping bids from server, so you don’t need to keep JoyBidder Pro running on your own computer to snipe. You need both a valid JoyBidder Pro license and adequate pre-paid snipes to use the service. The service is optional. Don’t buy pre-paid snipes if you don’t plan to use this service. More info on server sniping.

The pricing of the service is following

Don't upgrade to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks until you read this

Recently some Mac OS X 10.9 users have reported issues that JoyBidder places the bid too late, or didn't place bids at all in some cases. According to the log, JoyBidder was forced into sleep/standby mode frequently even with power management option is set to never sleep. JoyBidder does have a secondary thread/process which will restart the main thread if it is found idle for extended time, h
however, some of the sniping bids in between will be delayed.

It is suspected that the issue is caused by the "app nap" feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, which will put apps into sleep mode regardless of the power management setting. This obviously doesn't work well with apps that need to be running at background all the time, for example, eBay Auction Sniper application.

Here is extra information and a proposed solution. 
http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/disable-app-nap-os-x-mavericks/

If you haven't upgraded yet, please hold, until this above proposed solution have been verified, or you can try it yourself, and let me know if it fixes the problem.

Download 1.9.13 Free Edition for Mac OS DMG

The DMG installation file for Mac OS is corrupted on download.com. Please download directly from joybidder.com web site.

Here is the link http://www.joybidder.com/download/jb-free-1.9.13.bz.dmg

Once installed, please auto-update to the latest version 1.9.14.

no bundled installer from download.com anymore!

Due to the size of the installation files, and to make sure the download reliability and speed, the JoyBidder  desktop application installer for both Windows and Mac OS X are hosted by CNET's download.com. So when you click the Download button from joybidder.com home page, you will be re-directed to download.com and download the JoyBidder windows installer stored at download.com. 

However, recently, user has reported that download.com use bundled installer, for example, sweekpack, to trick user to download and install additional software that user doesn't want. And these software usually slows computer down and causing computer to crash.  

 To verify this, I just followed the process and download the installer and it runs the installer just the way I implemented. There is no bundled installer or additional software to be installed.

However, I suspect that download.com might treat different users differently. For me, somehow, it allows me to download the correct/clean installer, and, for other users, they might give them a bundled installer. When you launch the real JoyBidder installer, you should see the JoyBidder installer screen shot attached. If you don't see it, please DON'T install.

Before I sent inquiry to download.com, I did some research on sweetpack. It appears, according to sweetpack's own statement, they do have business arrangement with download.com to provide bundled installer that will download additional software.

However, it is quite a shock and considered a bad business conduct that download.com will do this without software's author's consent or knowledge. 

So I send the following email to download.com to inquire this matter further. If download.com admits this behavior, I will no longer use their service anymore. 

Here is the reply I got

Hello,

Thank you for contacting CNET Upload.com. CNET Installer has been disabled for your products.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.

Best regards,

Ivan
Customer Service
CNET Upload.com

Well, so they admitted they are doing this without my consent and fortunately they will no longer to this anymore. While I am still using their service in the near future, I will keep an eye on this. JoyBidder users, please let me know immediately, if download doesn't keep their promise and start to use bundled installer again.

And for anyone, not trusting download.com, you have always download from joybidder.com directly. The URL for the latest version is http://www.joybidder.com/download/jb-1.9.17-app-win.exe. Obviously, you need to change the file name for newer versions.

download.com JoyBidder Mac Disk Image Corrupted. Please download here.

Download.com JoyBidder Mac Disk Image Corrupted.

While we are contacting CNET to fix the problem, for the time being, please download here.

JoyBidder eBay Auction Sniper Pro 1.9.13 for Mac OS X


JoyBidder eBay Auction Sniper Free 1.9.13 for Mac OS X