Trade
Sniper (Buy Now)
The sniper searches the transfer market for your targets and buys Buy Now listings at or under your price.
The sniper runs in Snipe and Both mode. It goes through your enabled targets and filters one at a time, searches the transfer market for each, and buys Buy Now listings that are cheap enough.
How a snipe works
- Pick the next target. Targets and filters take turns. A target that reached its buy limit is skipped.
- Search. SnipeBid searches with a max Buy Now of your buy price. It varies the minimum-price filter from search to search so EA doesn’t serve the same cached results. For special cards it also sets a floor, so cheaper base versions don’t crowd them out.
- Check the results. Only active listings of the exact card, at or under your max buy, count. The cheapest come first.
- Buy. SnipeBid waits your Buy Now reaction time and buys. Up to two listings per search, until the limit is reached.
- List. With Auto-list snipes on, the card is moved to your transfer list and listed at your sell price. See Auto-lister.
- Wait, then the next target. The gap depends on your pace (see Safety & limits).
Your buy price
For a player target, the max buy is market price × snipe %, rounded down to EA’s price steps. The snipe % is the slider on the Targets tab (default 95%), or the target’s own % if you set one. Items use your max buy.
| Example | Value |
|---|---|
| Market price | 20,000 |
| Snipe at 94% | Max buy 18,750 (18,800 rounded down to the 250 step) |
| Sell at 100% | Listed at 20,000 |
| After EA’s 5% tax | 19,000, so about 250 profit per card if bought at the max |
Prices are rechecked every few minutes (see Auto price recheck), so your max buy follows the market.
Checks before every buy
- Session spend limit: if the buy would go over Session spend limit, the bot stops with spend limit reached.
- Coin floor: it skips a buy that would drop your balance below Keep at least.
- Enough coins: it skips a buy you can’t afford.
A missed buy is logged with the reason. someone faster bought it means another buyer got there first. Those count as lost to faster buyers on the Targets tab.
Buy Now reaction: Human, Fast, Turbo
How long SnipeBid waits between seeing a deal in the results and clicking buy. Set it above the target list or in Settings → Safety.
| Reaction | Delay after the search | Min time between two buys |
|---|---|---|
| Human | Your pace’s reaction time: Safe 1.4–2.8 s, Normal 0.95–1.9 s, Aggressive 0.65–1.3 s | 1.5 s |
| Fast | 0.6–1 s | 1.5 s |
| Turbo 🚀 (default) | 0.1–0.25 s | 0.7 s |
Sniping in Both mode
In Both mode each target alternates between a Buy Now search and an auction scan, starting at random. Auction scans also buy any Buy Now listing they see at or under your snipe price. (Pure Bid mode does this too.)
Auto-buy on your own market searches
On the web app’s Search the Transfer Market screen, SnipeBid adds two switches above EA’s Search button. They act on searches you run by hand, and buy at most one card per search:
| Switch | Buys |
|---|---|
| Automatically Purchase Cheapest Card | The cheapest player listing, up to the Max Buy Now you set in the search, or up to the market price if you didn’t set one. |
| Automatically Purchase Bargain Card | The cheapest listing at or under your snipe % of its market price. |
These buys use the same reaction speed, coin checks, spend limit and auto-listing as the bot. Only player cards are bought. The web app keeps showing the listing until you search again. The switches need an active license.
SnipeBid is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc. EA SPORTS FC and Ultimate Team are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc.