FC 27 auto bidder for late auctions

When it bids

Most FC 27 auctions end well under the card’s Buy Now value, especially for cheap and mid-priced players. SnipeBid looks at auctions ending inside your bid window (600 seconds by default) and lines them up: a planned bid holds a bid slot, but no coins.

The first bid goes in when the auction has 3 minutes or less left, at the next bid EA accepts, a low opening bid. No bid goes out with less time left than the minimum you set (8 seconds by default), and it places one bid per pass, like a person working down a list.

The bid cap: a hard ceiling per card

For every card SnipeBid works out the most it will ever bid. It is the lowest of:

• Market price × bid %: Smart % gives each card its own % (84 to 92% by default); Fixed uses one slider value; a % typed on a target wins over both.
• Sell price after the 5% tax, minus your minimum profit (50 coins by default), so a win is always profitable at your sell price.
• Your max price for items and filters.

The Targets tab shows the cap as Bid ≤ on each row, highlighted when the profit floor is what limits it. When the next price step is the last one under your cap, the first bid goes straight to the cap, so a rival can’t take it by bidding exactly your max.

One setting can loosen the profit floor: Margin on Auto (the default) accepts thinner flips on fast-selling cards while your coins sit idle and few buys land, never down to a loss after tax. Set it to Profit if you want your minimum profit applied exactly.

Counter-bids and the final push

Open bids are checked on your watchlist every 25 seconds, and every few seconds once an auction enters its last stretch. When you are outbid:

1. Counter-bid one price step over the rival, up to twice per auction by default.
2. Final push (on by default): once the counter-bids are used, or when you are outbid with 20 seconds or less left, one bid straight to the profit limit: the most that still leaves your minimum profit and one EA price step after the 5% tax on a sale at market price. If you typed your own bid % on a target, that cap is the max. The profit limit can be a little higher than Bid ≤ on the target row, and the tooltip says so.
3. Walk away. If that is beaten, or the price passes the limit, the row says so and the bot moves on. No bidding wars.

No bid or counter-bid goes out with less than 8 seconds left (adjustable from 5 to 30). EA has no proxy bidding, so a winning push costs the full amount; that is why it stops at the profit limit.

Learned closing prices and the one late bid

Every auction SnipeBid takes part in ends at a price, and it remembers the most recent ones for each card (up to 12, as a share of the market price). Once at least three are known, and your % is one that adapts (Smart %, or Adaptive bidding with no % of your own), the bid aims at a level that would have beaten about six in ten of those closes. It can lift a bid up to a few points above your Smart range when auctions keep closing higher, but always below the point where a win would stop paying after tax. A fixed % you set yourself is left exactly as it is.

The single late bid is the fallback, and there is no setting to choose it. SnipeBid places one late bid at Bid ≤ in the auction’s last seconds when it finds an auction with about half a minute or less left, when counter-bidding is switched off (or both counter-bids are 0 and Final push is off), for a card whose rivals answer within seconds, or when a safety limit says no to a new regular auction: the coins that running regular auctions may tie up, the number of regular auctions running at once, or the bid requests per hour. Coins, limits and slots are checked again when it fires. ⭐ Keep targets, items and filter cards are bid on as before.

Rival bots

If your bids on one auction are outbid within ten seconds twice, it is treated as another bot. SnipeBid stops the small steps: with Final push on it makes one bid to your max shortly before the end, otherwise it walks away, and that auction is left alone for 15 minutes.

Coin lock and open-bid limits

• Max open bids: 25 by default (EA’s watchlist holds 50). Planned bids count towards it.
• Max coins in bids: the share of your coins that may be tied up in bids you are winning. 100% by default; lower it to keep coins free for Buy Now.
• Keep at least: never bid below this balance.
• Min profit per flip: the floor under every cap, including counter-bids and the final push.

Filters running on Filter Autopilot choose their own bid level per auction from what a win is likely to cost and earn, keep their value cap on counter-bids too, and hold at most two open bids on the same card.

After the auction

Won cards are moved to your Transfer List and listed at the target’s sell price, never at a loss after tax; a win that wouldn’t cover its bid stays unlisted, and the log says why. Lost and expired auctions are cleared from your watchlist, nothing is ever quick sold, and auctions still running are never touched. The Auctions tab shows every bid with a live countdown, your cap, and a plain reason whenever SnipeBid is not countering. For how listings are priced and relisted, see auto relist.

The bidder suits fodder and mid-priced cards where auctions regularly close under Buy Now. To combine it with Buy Now sniping, run Both mode; the sniping bot page explains that half.