Careers Business Ownership Review and Details About eBay Sniping Site eSnipe.com Fees of 1% make it more expensive than some, but there is a free trial Print eSnipe enables you to snipe with URLs as well as eBay item numbers. Image: eSnipe.com Business Ownership Industries eBay Retail Small Business Restauranting Real Estate Nonprofit Organizations Landlords Import/Export Business Freelancing & Consulting Franchises Food & Beverage Event Planning E-commerce Construction Operations & Success Becoming an Owner By Aron Hsiao Aron Hsiao Aron Hsiao began selling on eBay in 1998 and joined the site's Trust and Safety Department in 2003, helping to resolve buyer and seller conflicts and marketplace rules violations. From 2013 through 2017, he served as senior communications manager for Terapeak, which offers marketplace research and listing analytics to online sellers. Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on 02/15/17 eSnipe.com is an eBay sniping platform—a tool that enables you to automatically place last-moment eBay bids without having to use eBay's own bidding system, which could potentially encourage other bids. With an Alexa rank of 24,519, eSnipe.com is a relatively popular sniping platform, though not as popular as sites like MyiBidder.com or Gixen.com. eSnipe.com is easy to use; it requires no software to be installed (you access it instead in your web browser) and it does not require that your computer be running for bids to be placed. A nice touch not offered by many other sniping services is that you can provide snipe listings by their URL, not just by their item number. While this may seem like a minor thing, it does make sniping just a bit less fiddly and squinty as you do it. As with many sniping services, eSnipe.com requires that you provide your eBay ID and eBay password in order for it to work. This means that if eSnipe.com is ever compromised, your eBay account is effectively compromised as well, so be vigilant and watch for any security notices as you use it. Unlike many other sniping services, eSnipe.com does charge a small fee that works out to 1% of the value of each won item, with a $0.25 minimum and a $10.00 maximum. This fee is paid using eSnipe.com's "BidPoints" system, which can be confusing to new users but enables eSnipe.com to avoid having to process many very tiny fees for inexpensive items won. The minimum purchase of 500 BidPoints costs $5.00. Note that eSnipe.com does offer a brief free trial period so that shoppers can get a feel for how the service works on one or several low-value items before deciding to purchase BidPoints. Click here to visit eSnipe.com. Concise Information About eSnipe.com The following details about eSnipe.com do not represent an endorsement (or criticism of) eSnipe.com for sniping or other purposes. eSnipe.com Popularity: HIGH eSnipe.com is a relatively popular eBay sniping platform. Software Installation: NO This eBay sniping platform is web-based, meaning that it doesn't require that you install any software on your computer. Instead, it runs inside your web browser. Computer Must Be Running: NO Since this sniping platform is web-based, all of your snipes are processed by eSnipe.com's servers, meaning that your computer doesn't have to be on for sniping to occur. Once you enter your snipes, eSnipe.com will handle the rest, whether your computer is on or not. Security Status: THIRD PARTY Because eSnipe.com needs your eBay account information in order to place bids on your behalf, you must supply your eBay login and password to eSnipe.com, meaning that if eSnipe.com is ever compromised, your eBay account is compromised, too. Group/Contingency Sniping: YES eSnipe.com supports group sniping (also known as contingency sniping), in which you place snipes for multiple similar items, all of which are all cancelled as soon as you win any one of them. Price/Fee Structure eSnipe.com charges 1% of the value of winning bids ($0.25 minimum, $10.00 maximum) as a fee. Fees are prepaid with a minimum $5.00 buy-in.