Chuck,
Try www.esnipe.com It's web based and doesn't require you to dial in -
and right now it's free! I have iSnipeit myself, but haven't used it in
quite awhile after I discovered esnipe.
Jim Caldwell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <norcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:17 PM
Subject: [OM] [OT] iSnipeIt - I can't get it to work
> Sorry, guys, this is pretty far OT but I figured there's probably as
> much or more expertise on the Oly list for this topic as anywhere else.
>
> I waited for about 6 months for the right Kiron 70-150 to come along on
> ebay and lost it to a snipe at $1.00 over my bid. I also waited for
> about 6 months (the second time) for a '99 Chrysler LHS factory manual
> to come along and also lost it to a snipe for $1.00. Durn!!! Time to
> try sniping myself.
>
> So, I ordered the trial version of iSnipeIt and all works OK except that
> it can't dial and connect by itself... pretty useless for an auction
> ending at 2:00 am. I have created two dialer profiles on my Win2000
> machine. One uses the standard Windows dialer, the other uses the AT&T
> dialer provided by attglobal.net (my ISP). If I start either one of
> these dialers manually all is OK. I can then start IE 5.0 or Netscape
> 4.76 and either will happily find and use the existing connection. For
> that matter, so will iSnipeIt.
>
> However, if I start IE 5.0 first and allow it to intiate the dialing I
> get some peculiar results. It seems to form a connection but then
> complains bitterly that it can't find the server. I assume that this is
> the same thing that's going on when I ask iSnipeIt to control the
> dialing since it uses IE under the covers. iSnipeIt dials the phone,
> connects and then complains that the connection was terminated.
> iSnipeIt gets worse if I attempt to use the AT&T dialer profile. It
> quits instantly without even attempting to dial and then gives me the
> same bogus message that the connection was terminated.
>
> I sent a message off to iSnipeIt's publishers asking what they might
> know about this but I'm being ignored... not surprising on a $25 package
> I guess. Anyhow, I'm stumped. I've tried dialer configuration settings
> till I'm blue in the face. They have to be correct since they work just
> fine if I start them manually. Am I facing an IE 5.0 specific bug?
> Anybody got a clue?
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Norcutt
> Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
> (tired of getting sniped)
>
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