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ShopGoodwill auto bid & scheduled sniping

ShopGoodwill auto bid is scheduled last-second bidding: you set a max once, and software fires near close. That is the core of sniping— automatic instead of manual clicking.

Manual bidding vs auto bid

Manual works when you have one ending and a free evening. It falls apart when ten lots end in the same minute, or when you are asleep. Auto bid queues those bids ahead of time.

Auto bid is not “set and forget forever.” You still choose what to buy, set maxes from comps, and accept that some fires will miss.

How BuzzerBidder schedules bids

Each snipe is a durable job in the database with leases. Workers pre-warm a ShopGoodwill session and submit your max a few seconds before close. If the minimum is already above your max, we skip rather than overbid.

Because the queue is hosted, closing your laptop does not cancel the schedule the way a desktop-only tool can when the machine sleeps.

What can still go wrong

• ShopGoodwill latency or maintenance near close
• Credential / session problems
• Network failures between our workers and ShopGoodwill
• Another bidder with a higher proxy max
• Your max already below the live minimum (intentional skip)

Pricing for automatic bidding

Standard: no monthly fee; 2% of the hammer on confirmed wins. Lose → no success fee. Pro: $10/month, 0% success fee while active. Compare that to tools that charge every time a bid fires.

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