Sure is a big improvement over the mishandled Auction Sentry!, 25 November 2009

Reviewer: Zena

Boy, after Dan Hite sold Auction Sentry it went downhill on a rocket sled. My subscription (finally) ran out and damned if I was going to give Auctiva a dime more.
But what to do? A reviewer here (over on the A.S. reviews suggested JBidWatcher so I tried it-

Yeah! Worked fine the first time. The "synch time with EBay" did not line up with eBay time very well, though, so I set up my Windows Internet Time Synch to tap into the NIST server for our zone and it's been aces, a 5-second snipe setting resulted in an 8-second win, close enough for rock 'n roll.

For those migrating from Auction Sentry you will have a short period of figuring out how to do the things you did with the A.S. interface (back when it WORKED that is), but before long you'll have it dialed in no problem.

I like that you can drag an eBay auction page straight from the I.E. browser address bar into JBidWatcher and voilà! Your auction is added, no fooling around with auction numbers.

There is no multiple user-logins available at this time for JBid, but otherwise this is a very suitable substitute for the price (a donation) over A.S. Deluxe.

Recommended especially for those of us on a budget!

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Good software for free, 31 December 2007

Reviewer: nochkin

Nice interface (although some things are not really clear if you just started).
I like the idea to have it multi-platform. Some error messages are a little confusing, but not much and make sense anyway.
It's better than some commercial solutions.

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It could be a promising software ... if the author kept it updated, 17 March 2006

Reviewer: jbssm

This utility has lots of nifty bonus, like bidding in groups and adding comments to every auction.
The problem is that it's in a eternal beta stage and everytime eBay changes a bit their site it stops working.
Besides that, sometimes it just misses the auction (it happens a lot, about 10% of times) and I thin k the problem is that it doesn't keep track very well of eBay time.
There is a problem also that if you have lots of auction in your list, the software starts to get extremely slow to the point you can't do anything (even in a Powermac Dual 2.0 GHz).
All in all, some new features would be nice, like for instance the ability of choosing the currency, but mainly I would be glad if it just worked.
Verdict: If you have a macintosh or linux it's your only option, if you have windows, then go for something else.

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Very Much like this, 23 August 2005

Reviewer: cptkev2

Nice simply, with advanced features. Works nicely and is free what more could you ask for!

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easily the best sniper I've used ... and it's free, 30 December 2004

Reviewer: rich_phil

JBidWatcher is a very easy, very intuitive and fairly feature rich sniper.
You can have multiple searches, with multiple folders, while adding auctions is simple and straightforward.
The software is OS-independent so you can run it on Macs, Windoze or Linux and it covers every eBay site.

I'd give it ten out of ten, but five out of five will have to suffice.

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