Instructions | You are here, so you found them
Email author | Email me here if you have any problems, questions, or comments.
Visit website | This is my auction website with links to useful info and to my present auctions.

White Caption Window | 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.

Free updates | --Any changes to eBay's system that affect the program will automatically be free. --Any bug fixes will automatically be free.
Pay upgrades | --The browser will be integrated into the program to allow for most of these more advanced features. --Comparison of the number of bids on item with the bid increments. --It will allow you to select items to track and create reports on what time of day most of the bids came in. --It will find unique bids to remove the bidding wars between two users. --A high dollar search function. --Comparison of starting price with ending price. --Report that tells you the % of items in a certain category that sell. --Reserve auctions search. --Dutch only search. --Comparison of added advertising costs on similar items. --Comparison of ending prices of similar items in different categories. --A search function to allow you to find the retail prices of items that sold higher on eBay. Believe me, I have found these. --Much, much more.

Open last results | This function will reopen the last search resluts 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.