A little quirky but does the job, 23 April 2006

Reviewer: Andy

I have been using Bid-O-Matic instead of JBidWatcher for a few weeks and it has sniped reliably. The interface is a little strangely designed, and there is no English help, but I got the hang of it quickly. The bid groups are particularly useful.

As it's a free program it still deserves four stars.

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bid O matic is the best deal on the internet!, 31 March 2006

Reviewer: Its me

Despite the Language issue and the lack of help files in the program, this freeware is excellent. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to get it working in english, and a bit of clicking around the program and you know everything you need to know. It snipes for me well, within 1 second of auction end using the reccomended lead time. And that's what really matters, isnt it.

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Bid-O-Matic, 14 March 2006

Reviewer: rshawver

Bid-O-matic is a very good sniping software. They seem to have thought of most every thing. It has worked every time, I didn't win all auctions but that was because I didn't bid high enough. The support staff (Andy) has been able to answer my minor settings questions. The main setting problem was it loads as a German program with a German browser. This easily fixed with help of their support. First go into the second menu (language)from the right and check language you want to use. The second is a little more difficult, it envolves changing the some ini files in the bid-O-Matic program file, the first one to change the serverstrings.ini to serverstrings.ini.bak (backup) the second is to change is to change to the browser you wish to use to serverstrings.ini . All together it is avery good program.

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Great Program! Easy to use! Highly Recommended!, 20 February 2006

Reviewer: Louie55

This program is a nice and simple Bid Sniping Program. It has worked every time I have set it for a certain auction and my percentage of won auctions has went up after I started sniping with this program. The only problem was that even though I told it to install in english, it was not in english when I opened it the first time. No big deal though. You just go to the second menu from the right and choose english and all is fixed. A few things throughout the progam still didn't change to english, but as a bid sniper, this program works great! If you set up an outgoing mail server, it will even e-mail you after the auction is over to let you know how you did! It synchronizes your time and has a built in web browser that you can use to check on the items you are sniping, just with one click of the mouse! Highly recommended.

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Fantastic free software, 19 July 2005

Reviewer: cptkev2

Available in english as well as German, fantastic automatic sniper. freeware and open source.

Also ckeck out bite -o - zilla an extension for firefox browser that allows you to integrate it directly into the ebay window. very useful

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