Track eBay bids with JBidwatcher [LWN.net]

The JBidWatcher project is:

A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (yen, pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese), Swiss Francs, and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, a unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOSX from the same binary.

[jbidwatcher] The project has been around since 2002, the project news shows an interesting history that involves tracking breakages caused by frequent eBay site changes.

The feature list includes:

General design for future compatibility with sites other than eBay.
Multisniping support cancels other bids after one bid has been won.
Designed and developed in a cross-platform environment.
Support for launching a web browser directly to an item that is being bid on.
A built-in search mechanism.
Support for user-customizable tabs.
Support for multiple languages and currencies.

Newly added features include:

User customizable column displays.
A Buy It Now feature for purchasing at a fixed price.
The ability to subtract shipping prices from snipe purchases.
An RSS feed for watching bids.

The screenshots show the user interface of an older version of JBidWatcher.

Version 0.9.7 of JBidWatcher was released this week. "This version is a major overhaul, with several major new features and dozens of bugfixes. The top four features are Customizable Columns, Buy It Now support, automatically Subtract Shipping from Snipes, and RSS Feeds." See the changelog file for more information on this release.

JBidWatcher has been released under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The software is available for download here.

If you are a frequent eBay auction bidder, JBidWatcher is a handy tool that can give you an advantage over other bidders. All that you need to worry about is where to store all of that new stuff you just bought.

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