Zaphod Beeblebrox 

I'm wondering what kind of Ebay Alerts are out there that I don't know about.

I use saved searches that send me email whenever a new product is listed that matches the search.

Thats the only thing I know about that ebay offers. I'm sure there are other things like that which will do all sorts of cool stuff... I just don't know about em.


Oddest thing just happened to me. I've been watching an item with no bids for a couple of days... I put a bid in. First bid. Within 10 minutes of my bid I've got a notice that I was outbid. Sure enough, some dude is a 1.50 up on my original bid.
I just found it kind of odd that an item goes 3 days with no bids, then I make the first move and within minutes other people are making moves too.

Is it just coincidental Timing or is there some kind of ebay alert that will tell you when new bids come in on items you are interested in? How is that even useful in a world with Snipers?

Of course I'm not about to bid again....I'll let the sniper handle that.