Bidnapper Features

The Contingency Bidding feature is a selectable function that automatically cancels a designated bid when you win an earlier auction with Bidnapper. You generally engage the Contingency Bidding feature on the "add" interface where you add your snipe to our database. However, you can do this when you initially add the snipe, or later by clicking the "edit" button on the auction listing in your list of pending snipes. On either the "add" interface or the "edit" interface, there is a dropdown list of all the auctions you are sniping. Just select the auction you want the bid you are adding to be contingent upon from that list. If you win that auction, Bidnapper automatically cancels your bid on the second auction, and any other selected auction. Of course, you can cancel any pending bid manually at any time.

This feature is a versatile little piece of bidding software. Very often, users bidding on several similar items will daisy chain their snipes together so only one auction is won. To set this up, make bidding on auction B contingent on losing auction A. Make bidding on auction C contingent on losing B. And so on. If you win any of these auctions along the way, all subsequent bids will be canceled.

Contingency Bidding may sound a little confusing, but Bidnapper will warn you if you are mistakenly making an earlier auction contingent on a later auction. All contingency bidding must be set up with the later snipe contingent on the earlier snipe. Also, auctions must be fifteen minutes apart for this function to work. If they are not, Bidnapper will warn you of that too.