eSnipe

Don't bid at 3 seconds, go 6 or 8 seconds If a bid is the same as yours then that means you bid second and the win goes to the First bidder, you would have waited for the last 3 seconds and become the second bid, Also, you cannot bid below the minimum next bid increment, I know it's we all want to safeguard paying too much but ebay wont charge you more than the minimum increment That only increases after the last bid amount. So go a few bucks more than your instincts or even 10 more, if you need the item because You wont pay over the last minimum increment anyway.

Yes you can bid, eSnipe doesn't know or care about your other bids - it only does the last 'snipe' you program it to. But if you do bid on an item you're telegraphing your interest in the item to other bidders. Doing a minimum bid does prevent the seller from modifying the listing so I guess if you want that you can enter your lowest bid and wait for your eSnipe bid to activate at the end of the auction.

Yes. However, if eSnipe also places a bid you will be charged "bid points". ESnipe is basically a clone of you. That said, you cannot outbid yourself.

No, that is not true. I used eSnipe for four eBay auctions last night (and won them all!) And I just placed bid on three more eBay auctions, which end tonight.

Why don't you ask esnipe about your problem. I have no problems about esnipe and privacy breaches.

Unless your bowling you must be referring to paypal. You buy in advance user points from esnipe, how you pay them is your business, and you can not buy from ebay unless you have sufficient points.

Yes. But that kind of defeats the purpose because you're driving up the price on yourself. If your goal is to get the first bid in so the seller doesn't cancel the auction, it's not a bad idea.