Automated sniping is only as good as the filters behind it. A bot with no price ceiling will happily "snipe" a player at full market price, and one with no rating filter will buy cards you never wanted in the first place. Here's how to think about each setting.
Price range (min / max)
Your max price should sit meaningfully below the going market rate — otherwise you're not sniping, you're just buying at market price with extra steps. Setting a minimum price also matters: extremely low listings are often untradeable or duplicate cards priced as junk, not real deals.
Bid limits
If you're bidding rather than buy-now, cap your max bid the same way you cap your buy price. An unbounded auto-bid can chase a card up to its full value and erase any profit margin.
Card rating
A rating filter (or a max rating cap) keeps the bot focused on the tier of player you actually want, instead of matching every card that happens to fall in your price range.
Purchase cap per search
Limiting how many purchases the bot makes per search run stops a mispriced or highly contested listing from draining your entire coin balance in one session.
Action delay
Adding a small delay between requests, rather than firing instantly, keeps activity closer to how a person actually clicks through the market.
GOATBot exposes all of these as configurable settings in the Side Panel, so you can tune them to your budget and risk tolerance before you start a session.