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SnipeIt!
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| What is SnipeIt!? SnipeIt! is eSnipe's service that will allow
you to place a bid directly from the eBay item page, saving several
steps in the bidding process. When you activate the
SnipeIt! window from within an auction, many of the required fields
will already be filled in for you, just fill in the remaining information
and place your bid. The bid goes directly to our server, just as if you
logged into the site and placed the bid using the BidWizard. |
SnipeIt! comes in a number of varieties, so we'll need to narrow them
down to only those which are available to your operating system and web
browser.
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Step 1:
I use Microsoft Windows.
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Step 2:
I use Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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Toolbar Version |
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- Make sure your Links toolbar is visible. If it is not, click:
View -> Toolbars -> Links
- Drag the SnipeIt! button below onto the Links toolbar.
That's it! Now next time you're ready to bid on an auction item, just
click the SnipeIt! button while you are viewing an eBay item page. A
window will pop up asking for a few details, and your snipe will be
placed.
For a visual representation of this
version of SnipeIt!, click the screenshots
below:
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Right-Click Version |
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This is for Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, or 6.0
for Windows. The Macintosh version of Internet Explorer is not
supported for right click, please click
here for Macintosh compatible versions of SnipeIt!
This version works differently from the others, and requires a
different installation process. Instead of placing a SnipeIt!
button on your browser toolbar, this version allows you to right-click
an auction item page, and SnipeIt! will appear on the context
menu that appears.
To make this work, we have to ask you to download and install a patch
to your system that will add our SnipeIt! entry to this menu. The
patch is perfectly safe, and actually isn't even a program, it only
modifies a Windows setting.
Click here to download the Internet Explorer patch.
When asked whether to Open or Save the file, choose
Open. You will receive a message that the file has been successfully
imported into the registry. After this procedure, it is recommended that
you restart your browser. We have had a few reports that users have had
to restart Windows after this patch - so if SnipeIt! eSnipe
does not appear when you right-click a page, please restart Windows.
How does it work? While you are viewing an item that you want to bid
on, right-click the mouse anywhere on the eBay page. A context
(pop-up) menu will appear, and one of the options near the bottom will
be SnipeIt! eSnipe. Select the SnipeIt! eSnipe option. A
window will appear with some of the bid information already filled in
for you. Fill in the remaining fields, and click the Place eBay Bid with eSnipe button. Your bid will be submitted to our server.
If you want to uninstall (hide) this SnipeIt! eSnipe menu entry from Internet
Explorer, download and execute the following:
Click here to download the hide registry patch.
For a visual representation of this
version of SnipeIt!, click the screenshots
below:
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