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eSnipe blog
eSnipe Official Blog and Then Some
Get the inside scoop about eSnipe, learn how to get better deals, and learn how to run your business better.
http://www.EasyOnMe.com/blog
Sniping Information Sites
Free
news and resources for online auction users
Absolutely the place to go for independent eBay sellers
http://www.auctionbytes.com/
Articles about eSnipe and Sniping
USA Today: On eBay, it Pays to Snipe
Alvin Roth, Harvard economist: "Sniping is a good strategy", mentioning eSnipe by name in a USA Today article
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/2006-06-25-physics-of-ebay_x.htm
eBay Bidders Sold on Sniping
Wired interviews Tom Campbell of eSnipe
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/09/55204
Insider
Secrets: Better Buying on eBay
The author of eBay Hacks says "By far, the best
sniping service available is eSnipe.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5664889-2.htm
AUCTIONS How to Outbid the Fanatics: Software That Never Sleeps
The New York Times correctly calls eSnipe the "Industry Standard"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E4DC173EF936A3575AC0A9649C8B63
Wikipedia
on Auction Sniping
Be sure to check Wikipedia on sniping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_sniping
eSnipe, Sniping, and the eBay Sniper late bidder in Academic Papers
Software agents and the route to the information economy
Jeffrey O. Kephart correctly predicted in 2002 that services like
eSnipe.com with agents like Rovatron would become
increasingly important, and also recognizes eSnipe's role as a pioneer
in the fee-based website model (boo, hiss!).
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl.3/7207.full
The Timing of Bids in Internet Auctions: Market Design, Bidder Behavior, and Artificial Agents [PDF]
Alvin Roth, Harvard, Axel Ockenfels, University of Magdeburg: "One of the most interesting of these bidder agents is the web based service eSnipe.com."
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/eBay.ai.pdf
Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet [PDF]
Mentions eSnipe multiple times. "The effect of the fixed deadline is no doubt as large as it is because it rewards late bidding both when other bidders are sophisticated and when they are not.
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/eBay.veryshortaer.pdf
Shilling, Squeezing, Sniping: Explaining late bidding in online second-price auctions [PDF]
Close look at sniping and related phenomena. Doesn't mention eSnipe but asserts that sniping is best practice for the ebay sniper.
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/barbaro/BarbaroBracht.pdf
Insights from Internet Auctions
Patrick Bajari, Stanford University, and Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago: "...bidders should wait until the last minute in order to avoid revealing their private information"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=467544
Bid Sniping on eBay by Andy Chou [PDF]
"Another reason that makes late bidding rational is to drive the final price down."
www.cramton.umd.edu/econ415/project-internet-auctions.pdf
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Seller Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors [PDF]
Gregory Lewis, Harvard University: "... sellers selectively disclose information based on the quality of their vehicle." Briefly mentions sniping. Shockingly, omits mention of eSnipe. We forgive him.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/facseminars/events/applied_microecon/documents/ame_11_07_lewis.pdf
Gone in 60 Seconds: Last-Minute Bidding on eBay Auctions [PDF]
Ike Onur, author of several sniping-related papers discusses late bidding theory and the ebay sniper.
http://wwwdocs.fce.unsw.edu.au/economics/news/VisitorSeminar/Gone%20in%2060%20Seconds%20%20%20Last-Minute%20Bidding%20on%20eBay%20Auctions.pdf
eSnipe Friends
Rovatron: Better Living Through Androids
Autobiography of our favorite eBay sniping bot.
http://www.rovatron.com/
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