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7/20/2003

I thought I would update this help file along with the software itself and make it a resource for anyone with questions about Hotbid.

The links along the side go straight to my website. Signing up for my newsletter at the side or joining the discussion group from the program itself will keep you up to date on news of new versions.

This present version is a patch to get all of the functions working again. I am working on new version as you read this. It will be a major update to the first version of Hotbid 4.0 which will include functions that none of my competitors have and therefore I will not mention them here to prevent the theft of my ideas.

These instructions are very basic, but I plan on rewriting Automated Ebay Sales, available free from my website, with sidebars for Hotbid users.

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Hopefully this will provide you with some useful instructions while you are using my program. It also lists the progress of the search while it is running. NOTE: After the search has completed and the program is parsing the results, this box will sometimes turn gray and the program will seem to lock up. Be patient, it has not locked up. Just thinking.

Minimum Bids Window

I found that this was a useful function, so you can remove listings you don't want to see, such as the ones that have no bids (for this enter 1 in the window). You can also enter any number you want. For example, if you only want to see auctions that have 10 bids or more enter 10 in the box.

Featured Auctions Search

Pretty much self-explanatory here. Just click the button to list all auctions that are featured by the amount of bids they have.

Category Search

You must enter the category number in the box and then click the green search button. To list the category numbers, click the "Show Categories" button and a list of category numbers will pop up in your browser.

Keyword Search

This is pretty much set up just like the eBay search page to make it a lot easier.

Completed Search

Enter your search terms and click the search button.
Saving Searches Hotbid does not have a search save function at the present time, but to save your searches, you can go to you browser, click on File and the Save as. Then just type a filename in to save the search.

Open Last Results

This function will reopen the last search results you downloaded

See Incomplete Results

This button will allow you to stop the search and order the listings that have been downloaded up to that time by the amount of bids. This is for those huge searches that you are impatient to see. The default searches start with the items ending first, which theoretically would have more bids.

Bugs

Email me here

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