What are some things that get you decent profit, and can be sniped often? i think id be lost in the auction just trying to find stuff for cheap and just randomly bidding...
If you're going small principle, small profit go for codestone, bottled faeries, and neggs. If you have a larger principle, hit up map pieces (be careful, each piece of each map is worth a different amount), morphing potions, and paintbrushes.
There are a lot of small profit items, those can be anything. For large profit, you'll want to look for various morphing potions.
haha ya, i cant get anything of value on there... i just missed out on 4 map pieces, 2 paintbrushes, even a codestone for like 300nps... ahah i just cant get anything... is the auction sniper program good at sniping? does it fail lots? anyone have an opinion they'd like to share with me?
Well, by nature, any program would be better than the average legitimate sniper, or else we wouldn't use them ^^.
For a VERY large profit, watch for those newbies (or maybe just n00bs) who get Draik/Krawk trans potions from the Dr. Sloth random event and put them up for auction at ridiculously low prices; I've missed one Krawk trans that went for 3.5mil, one for 1.7mil, and two Draik trans in the 2mil range.
Not quite. Most auction snipers work by just bidding whenever it sees that you've been out-bidded. However, pro legit auction snipers time the end time for the auction and make an overbid. A program may not have time to react fact enough to beat the overbidder. And remember, there are quite a few people sniping at the auctions, so the success rate won't be too high for the rarer items.
That's true, I haven't really thought of that. At the same time, the sniper reacts ridiculously fast, so it's able to do well even if it can't time it. What I'd love to see is a program which starts looking at auctions several pages back, and times the exact instant certain items go from "30-60 minutes" to "< 30 minutes", and then times it just right that way. It would be a memory hog, and would need to be run for a 35 minute minimum to get anything, but I think it'd still be worth it.
Not memory hog, CPU hog. If you really need to be that precise, you'd also have to account for network lag and such. Its certainly possible though.
That's true... maybe run some initial tests during that half hour to see how much of that was going on xD. And then make it a full fledged auction suite by loading in r96+ items and automatically looking their prices up! lol. And it seemed like a memory hog because it would need to remember each item that had less than under half an hour left which you were interested in buying. But in the days of several gigabytes of memory, I guess we're past that.
Er, problem...aren't auction end times random now? Like, when it says >30 minutes it'll end 15 minutes before or after the 30 minute mark of when the time left changes?
I think so... I once followed an auction from the 30minutes - 2 hour mark to the finish. And even though I noted the exact time when it changed to < 30 minutes, it took about an extra 10 minutes for it to end.
Yeah, to prevent people from doing what pando did, TNT made the end times "rough estimates". there was an editorial on it like way back when, i think.
Ouch, there goes that idea. But... I have a: Fork! Since (correct me if I'm wrong) the auction listed in the #1 position finishes 1st, and #2 finishes 2nd, etc., you could take the average time needed for each auction to move up one spot to get a general idea of how fast they're moving. This would be less accurate than knowing exactly when something will end, but should still work. Still, this is moot because nobody (that I know of) is planning on making this xD.
lol. It would be so much easier and more effective to just have 10 sniper threads running concurrently.
You just have to shoot me down don't you xD. Just imaging how awesome it would be though, doing that! Yet, I agree with you .