Re: grabbing cheap buy it now on ebay
You can go about this a few different ways depending on what type of buyer you are.
For the casual buyer, you can use a browser extension to automatically refresh a page. For FireFox I've used ReloadEvery and for Chrome I've used SuperAuto Refresh.
For both, you basically right click on any page and the addon options are present and click to refresh per your set interval.
For newly listed BIN items, you want to be on the search page with sort option set to Newly Listed. Within the search criteria, have category and price min-max filled out also so only relative results come up within the price range you want.
I would recommend every 2 seconds to refresh depending on if your PC/Internet connection can full search and load a search within that time frame.
Also, I usually click (open in new tab) on the top 3-4 results before starting the auto refresh so that the title URL's turn purple color (have visited) so that when you start the auto refresh and a title URL comes up blue (not yet visited) it's easier to see. So out of the corner of your eye you're just looking for a new blue link on the top of the page to know that something new has come up.
If you're an advanced buyer that buys BIN deals all the time then a program like uBuyFirst would work. Basically, you set your search terms up and the program uses the API and other search methods to find the items before many other might even see them using the eBay.com website. The main advantage to using a program like this being able to strip out all the non item related text an ebay listing page has so that you only see what's relative to your purchasing decision. But, something like this is only for those who buy on eBay and resell for a living.
I use to do this for cell phones several years back and was actually a really good way to make money. If you have a reselling niche off eBay and ebay has the product you can really bank.
Hope this helps.
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