Whether I win a $25 philatelic cover or a $180 one, Gixen doesn't charge me anything additional besides the yearly $6.00. At $6.00 a year, that puts a snipe at $0.075, no matter the price of the won item. In the past 12 months I believe won about 80 auctions. To begrudge $6.00 a year for such excellent service, to complain that it is a "con", one has to be a shameless grotesque cheapskate. The app works perfectly I can access Gixen from my Iphone, and from Gixen on my phone I can instantly access my eBay Watching List.
Besides the expense was peanuts: $6.00 for a year of unlimited snipes with the mirror service. Someone had gone through a lot of trouble, invested a lot of workdays to insure that I could win auctions, I wasn't going to be a freeloader. Those are the only times when I lost an auction. My finances have their limits and I can't always be the highest bidder. Finally Bidnip, and all my unused snipes, vanished without explanation nor refund. Supposedly eBay was creating hurdles by using "catchaps". That was a welcome change! Before I was using Bidnip and lost many auctions I ought to have won handily. PoisedIuchar's Experience With Gixen, the only auctions I lost were when my bids were inferior. Yes, there's a fee, but it is a reasonable and predictable 1% of the auction price, (10 cent minimum, 10 dollar maximum). Plus I've got two more free snipes to use! And the website is clear and professional. Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy, I won that auction. Given the unclear pricing, the hokey website design and now the unresponsive snipe, I deleted the snipe, registered at EZSniper, and placed my snipe. Gixen's site wouldn't even register that a bid had been made. Fast forward to yesterday's auction: I had set up a snipe on Gixen, and just for safety's sake, I placed an actual low-to-mid level opening bid on eBay. It felt like, "We'll let you snipe for free, but if you want to make sure your snipe is processed on the non-wonky server, you have to subscribe." True, the rates were reasonable, but I bid on auctions so rarely, that a subscription makes no sense.a per-snipe structure would work better for me. I tried setting up a snipe on Gixen, but it was never made clear if it was still truly free, or was a subscription service. I recently needed to bid on an actual auction on eBay. Then I migrated over to Gixen when it was still free. AuthenticHoragalles's Experience Used to use BidNip back in the day.
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