Feature
FC 27 autobuyer for Ultimate Team
An FC 27 autobuyer buys cards on the transfer market for you whenever they match rules you set. SnipeBid runs the whole loop inside the Web App: it searches for your players, items and filters, buys under your price limits, lists each card at a price that clears EA’s 5% tax, relists what doesn’t sell, and buys again once a copy has sold.
Autobuyer or sniper: what’s the difference?
The words get used loosely. A sniper is about speed: catching one underpriced Buy Now listing before anyone else does. An autobuyer is about rules: “buy any gold Premier League midfielder rated 82–86 under 15,000”, or “keep two copies of this card on my list at all times”. It cares as much about what to buy, how many and what happens afterwards as about how fast it clicks.
SnipeBid does both. The sniping side is covered on the FC 27 sniping bot page; this page is about the rules and the loop around them.
The full loop: search, buy, list, relist
- Search. Targets and filters take turns, one search each, through the same pacing and breaks.
- Buy. A listing is bought when it is under that card’s limit and still leaves your minimum profit after tax. Spend limit, coin floor and copy limits are checked first.
- List. The card moves to your Transfer List and goes up at your sell % of the market price (100% by default), with a start price raised, where the Buy Now allows, to cover what you paid plus your minimum profit after tax.
- Clear and relist. Sold cards are cleared and booked; expired target cards go back up at today’s price. Details on auto relisting.
- Buy again. Each target holds a set number of unsold copies at once (5 by default). When one sells, that slot opens and the target buys again.
Auctions can be part of the same loop: in Both mode each target alternates between a Buy Now search and an auction scan, and auction scans also grab any Buy Now listing they see under your snipe price.
Three ways to tell it what to buy
Single targets
Type a player’s name and add the exact version you want. SnipeBid loads its market price and 24-hour trend, and shows on each row the most it will pay, the price it will list at and the profit per card after tax. Consumables, managers and club items can be targets too; you give them a max buy and, optionally, a sell price.
Filters
A filter uses the same criteria as EA’s market search: quality, rarity, position or a whole line, chem style, country, league, club, PlayStyle+, an OVR range and a price range. Every card in the results is priced on its own; a card without a known price is skipped, never guessed. Untradeables and loan cards are always skipped.
Scout Autopilot
Not sure what to add? Press Start in the Scout tab and Scout runs the list for you: it adds player cards and up to two filters that fit your coin balance (Safer, Balanced or Bolder), sets their copies, and swaps out cards that stop paying. It makes at most 6 list changes a day, explains each one with Undo, and never touches the targets and filters you added yourself. Planning uses SnipeBid’s price data, so it costs none of your EA searches. Prefer to choose? Manual mode only recommends.
Filter Autopilot: broad filters that still pay
A broad filter has a problem: most of what it finds is cheap fodder that can’t be flipped at a profit, so searches get spent on pages of cards worth 50 coins. Player filters therefore run on Filter Autopilot:
- A value gate. A buy has to leave the larger of your minimum profit, two EA price steps or 3% of the card’s price after tax. The search itself starts above the cards that can’t meet that, instead of finding and skipping them.
- Price bands that learn. The filter’s range is split into bands, and each search goes to the band that has been paying off, with some exploration so new chances aren’t missed. A full page splits a band; a band that keeps coming back empty merges into its neighbour.
- A shared card memory. What filters learn about a card (how its auctions close, how fast it sells) is shared between them, and a card falling 12% or more is left alone for three hours.
Autopilot only decides where a search goes and what a card is worth. It never adds searches, and every hard limit still applies. Item filters use simpler price bands, splitting into up to eight when results come back full.
Keeping coins free: the coins-at-work cap
An autobuyer that buys faster than it sells ends up with a full Transfer List and no coins. SnipeBid counts the cost of everything still unsold, listed or not, plus coins tied up in open bids. While that passes 70% of your coins (balance plus coins at work; adjustable, or 0 to switch it off), Buy Now flips wait and the panel says why. Buying resumes on its own as cards sell.
Alongside it: a session spend limit, a Keep at least coin floor, the per-target copy limit, and hourly and daily search caps.
Who it is for
The autobuyer suits players who want to trade by rules rather than by single cards: fodder for SBCs, a price band of meta golds, chem styles, contracts. If you mainly want auctions, read about the auto bidder; for the wider picture of what a trading bot does, see FUT trading bot. Prefer to stay hands-on? On the Web App’s own market search screen, two optional switches can buy the cheapest or a bargain card from searches you run yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Can the autobuyer buy consumables like chemistry styles or contracts?
Yes, as single item targets or as filters. You set the max buy; for the sell price you either enter one or leave it empty, and SnipeBid uses the cheapest Buy Now it saw in its own auction scans (that needs Bid or Both mode). See Filters.
How many copies of one card will it hold?
Each target holds up to its limit of unsold copies at once, 5 by default and editable per row (0 means no limit). A copy stops counting once it sells, so the target starts buying again. Filters have the same limit.
What stops it from spending all my coins?
A session spend limit, a coin floor (Keep at least), the copy limits and the coins-at-work cap, which pauses Buy Now flips while unsold cards and open bids tie up more than 70% of your coins by default.
Does Scout Autopilot use up my EA searches?
No. Scout plans your list from SnipeBid’s own price data and never adds searches: your pace and search limits decide how many there are, and Scout only decides what they look for. See Scout.
Can I change targets from my phone?
Yes, if you give that phone permission: switch targets and filters on or off, change their %, limit and max price, add a player or pause everything. New filters are created on the computer. See Phone remote.