Cricket Power Sniper has been written up in hundreds of newspapers all over the United States and is frequently mentioned on Local and National TV shows. Here is just a sampling
Industry
Profile: Dave Eccles, Founder of CricketSniper
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
July 11, 2004
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January 20, 2004
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The
Future of Sniping on eBay
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
November 13, 2003
June 14, 2001
Live appearance by the developer, Dave
Eccles
Two articles written by the developer
The
Basics of Online Auction Sniping and link to the video of the
segment
Make
Your Own Sniper ProgramThe developer shows you how he did it with
the first Snipe program
Direct
link to video (first page is video player & connection speed
selection)
New York Times
May 10, 2001
by Michelle Slatalla
In
Throes of Passion, A Sniper is Born
"...Or, as David Eccles, developer of an early commercial sniping
program (called Cricket Jr. and released in 1998), says: "It's an auction
and there are no friends. Your job is to get the item for the least amount of
money possible."
New prey entered my sights: on Ebay I saw another Stewardess, with chrome wings framing its round face. It was almost identical to one that sold for $113.19 a few days earlier. Soon after, I became one of the more than 10,000 users who have paid $14.99 each for Cricket Jr., which I downloaded from www.worldint.com/journeys/eccles."
from the publishers of TIME and
Entertainment Weekly, Time Warner's ON
Magazine
May 2001
by Adam Cohen, Senior Staff Writer
The
Sniper King
"Ever been 'sniped' on Ebay by someone else's last-minute bid? David
Eccles could be to blame; his bidding software is already in the hands of more
than 10,000 people"
The Baltimore Sun
January 08, 2001
by Doug Bede II
Note: Link is now in archive and the Baltimore Sun charges to view it.
"Auction Sniping: The company's Power Sniper includes a feature that helps warn you when shills are present by comparing seller and buyer information during an auction."
Tech
TV
Video: Take aim at auction snipers
September 19, 2000
by Beth Rimbey and Nicole Guilfoyle
"Online auctions are full of fierce competition as people place their bids, hoping to be the final winner. What many bidders don't know is that there are people lurking in the shadows until the final moments of an auction, laying in wait to snatch up the prize at the last second. Sniping, the act of placing last-second bids, has become rampant in the online auction world.
If you're determined to become an auction sniper, software and the Net can help. Programs such as Cricket Jr... can be programmed to automatically execute bids seconds before the clock stops ticking."
TheWhiz.com
May 29, 2000
by Mark Cantrell, Technology Columnist
Note: TheWhiz.com is no longer. I pulled these quotes from Google.com cached pages.
"Cricket Jr is billed as the first Ebay snipe program. All the information is on one screen. Its main function is to snipe Ebay auctions. ... is well-designed and aggressive."
After reviewing the program Mark called it a favorite and stated, " If you’re a die-hard sniper, grab a copy of Cricket Jr."
AuctionWatch.com
April 28, 2000
by Dennis Prince
The
State of Sniping
"Religion. Politics. Sniping.
Discuss any of these topics and you're certain to elicit several responses, ranging from impassioned endorsements to fist-pounding diatribes. They're certain to polarize opinions.
Religion and politics are old standards. But why has sniping--the act of placing last-second bids at online auctions, leaving other bidders with virtually no time to react--evolved into such a controversial practice?"
"Now, if sniping is considered undesirable, it becomes truly detestable with tools that help snipers in their last-second quests. Enter sniping software, sometimes known as bid bots. Many auction-goers make regular use of automated auction assistants
'My program does not interfere with or manipulate [auction] site pages in any way,' said David Eccles, creator of the Cricket Jr. sniping software. Rather, he maintains that his software (with a current user base of about 7,000) merely imitates exactly what the 'live' sniper is doing with his or her finger on the mouse. Cricket Jr. and the other sniping programs available actually are tools of convenience, perhaps similar to mass-market software products such as Quicken and TurboTax--merely an automated improvement to a very manual effort."
Says
about bidding:
"The final minutes. If you really want an item, be
sure to be online the last few minutes of the auction. Remember to continue to
click your browser’s Refresh or Reload button so you can see any bids above
your amount on-screen. Some browser programs may refresh an old copy from
memory, so you might have to press the SHIFT key at the same time you click
Reload.
The professional sniper. Snipers are bidders who bid in the last minutes of an auction and take a sale right out from under you. To ward off average snipers, set your proxy bid at the absolute highest amount you wish to go. Another tip is to place your bid in the last seconds of the auction (provided you have a fast Internet connection). However, if the sniper really wants the item, he might set his proxy bid at an outrageous amount (maybe $500 for an item that should sell for $25) to make sure he gets the item. If money is no object for you, you can do the same thing. Of course, be warned that if you do, you may have to pay the $500 if the bidding goes that high. So, don’t bid outrageous amounts if you can’t back it up.
Professional bidders also recommend that you have one Web browser window open to the auction so you can keep refreshing your screen and see the latest bids. They also suggest that you open another window with your highest bid, so you can send it in quickly. One way to easily open another window is to select New, Window from the File menu of your Web browser, and then browse to the correct Web page."
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