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2025 Updates & Enhancements

Posted: Feb 4 2025

We are pleased to present our latest software update. The majority of the improvements are based on customer input. Your feedback works---when you submit ideas, we listen!

New Features

New Public Pages:

The public pages were changed for a new look, and your Dashboard was changed slightly.

Real-Time Snipe Log:

Now you can watch your snipes execute in real time! This is just another way we bring transparency and accountability to the service. You can see the entire journey a snipe takes from the time you submit it to its execution.

Slam-It Notes:

Using Slam-It, you can now add notes to any auction, even if you do not add a snipe for it. Each time you pull up Slam-It, it will remember the note. It's a good way to remember if you've visited that snipe previously. EDIT: We are going to add a "Notes" tab so you can see all of your notes.

Gallery (Images) View:

We've had Grid View and List View. Now there is Images View, so you can see all of the images on one page in a masonry layout.

Fixed Price Auction Warning:

Now you will be alerted to a Fixed Price auctions, which cannot be sniped---so that you won't find out after the fact. (Buy-It-Now items can still be sniped after a manual bid conversion, if the seller enabled that option on the auction.)

Trust & Safety Error Handling:

About a dozen different Trust & Safety error situations are detected with more accuracy now, helping you navigate the challenges of buying weapons, jewelry, cosmetics, and similar items. Please take a few minutes to review the new Trust and Safety Errors help page.

Updates & Enhancements

Search Engine Enhancements:
  • Search Descriptions: There is a checkbox for this now.
  • Advanced Searches: You can combine searches and use phrases and negative keywords, as described on the new Advanced Search Help Page.
  • Category Filtering: Search results now list the categories, so you can narrow your search results.
  • Category Suggestion Tool: The search results show you the most popular categories for your search, allowing you to narrow further.
  • Auto-complete: The search box will auto-complete with your Saved Searches.
Slam-It Toolbar:
  • Reformatted: Now displays the full item title.
  • E-Mail Integration: You can change bids directly from Outbid Notices and Auction Tribune emails.
  • Please Re-install: This is not required, but it will remove the brief flicker when the pages redraws itself.
Auction Tribune Emails:
  • Search Engine Carry-Over: All of the new features in the search engine carry over to Saved Searches and Auction Tribune.
  • Emails Reformatted: Auction Tribune looks more like a real newspaper now. (This one's our favorite.)
Urgent Notifications:
  • Outbid Notices: Now sent more frequently, and closer to the ending time of the auction.
  • Revoked Authorizations: Now detected and sent no less than 4 hours before an auction ends. Also, we no longer set the bids to zero.

For API Users

  • New API URL: Our API has moved to https://api.bidslammer.com. Note that the trailing /api has been dropped. Please update your code accordingly.
  • DeleteBid API Call: You can now delete by item number.
  • New getSuggestedCategories API Call: This is the API call for the feature described above.
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