Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Bidding from Germany on US-ebay

Thanks a lot for your long response. I will try to solve my case on the US side.

Regards

Eric

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Bidding from Germany on US-ebay

Greetings,
The short answer is: No, unfortunately.

To explain, in order for JBidwatcher to do what it does, I have to parse the responses from eBay, and pull out phrases that mean successful bids, underbids, or other problems. I also have to do the same to find the right fields to parse on their item pages (‘Quantity’ vs ‘Stückzahl’) and many other places.

Right now I do this for ebay.com and ebay.co.uk because it’s straightforward and useful; there are very few language differences between them, and supporting ebay.co.uk gets access to all the items which are visible only to Europe, which is significant. If I were to support all the language potentials, it would be an explosion of complexity that I’m simply not able to handle. Given that eBay’s constant terminology changes and web page tweaks are what keep breaking JBidwatcher in the first place, multiplying that by the dozen-ish country sites with unique languages which I don’t read would make it impossible for me to maintain the software.

You’ve run into the #1 problem with my approach; that when things go wrong, eBay are jerks about where you can resolve it. This is, thankfully, a rare case, however. I know it sucks pretty badly for you, being in the circumstance, but vastly more transactions go right on eBay than go wrong. This means that the huge amount of one-time and ongoing work to support many language sites has to be weighed against the rarity of things going wrong.

I can’t support going in that direction. I wouldn’t be able to manage the software anymore at that point, and it would be constantly breaking, as multiple language sites are constantly updated by eBay.

I try to emphasize this on the eBay configuration page. If you pick, for instance, ebay.de in the ‘Country site’, it very clearly says:

Bidding happens on ebay.com or ebay.co.uk, even if neither is your local site. If you have a seller dispute, it will need to be made on one of those sites.

I feel terrible for your situation; I do believe they’ll handle the dispute even though it isn’t your local site, it’s just a major pain to deal with eBay support in a language other than your native one.

I wish you the very best of luck with your future auctions.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Bidding from Germany on US-ebay

Hi,

I unfortunatelly have an auction, where I have not received my parcel and the seller is not responding. If I try to open a case I’m routed to the US ebay side, because “I was bidding on an american side”. I live and bid in Germany. Can I switch this to bidding-on-a-German-side?

Eric

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Feature Request: Multi Multisnipe

ttt

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / populating searches.xml file

Q1: I don’t know an automatic way of populating the searches.xml from a spreadsheet but as the searches.xml is straight forward it shouldn’t be too difficult to write a (bash, Python, Powershell, AppleScript…) script that imports from e.g. csv (exported from the spreadsheet).

Q2: Set up the searches so that the searches will be put in individual tabs.
But be warned: Jbidwatcher will be slow with thousands of auctions. You definitely don’t want to have thousands of auctions in one (e.g. current) tab.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Feature Request : automatic auction number

You can change the snipe amount for individual auctions after setting up the multisnipe.
That’s btw a FAQ ;-)
https://jbidwatcher.tenderapp.com/kb/ui/change-…

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Feature Request : automatic auction number

Hey guys!
First of all, great tool! Especially the reliability of your tool is much better then other tools.

But I have a feature request: Is it possible to automatically capture the auction number from a browser window in the background (of course browser independent), with only one click? That would be much more comfortable!
But thats not my idea. If you take a look at the ebay sniper “schnapper pro” (www.schnapperplus.de), which I used before, this tool has this capture function. You can test it with the trial download. This post should not be advertisement, as Jbidwatcher is much more better and reliable!

And how about redesigning the multisnipe, for bidding on multiple auctions with different heights of bids? Would be cool :-)

Greetz and keep up the good work!
Your fan Nico.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / populating searches.xml file

Excuse the noob questions as I’m relatively inexperienced with this tool as of yet.

Q1: Is there a relatively easy way for me to populate the searches.xml file from an existing spreadsheet of possible queries that I would like to load up into the search manager?

Q2: Is there a way to figure out what search ID is associated with the output being seen in the current tab. I probably will have in the order of 500 searches being populated into the searches.xml file and it would be great if I could associate each of those with the potentially 1000s of outputs that will be placed into the “current” BJidwatcher tab.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

glad that you think you don’t need to safeguard your eBay password.

As you said, you don’t worry about it as you will be “taken care of”.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

You can’t go through all of your life with your head stuck in the sand. Look through the consequences. So what if somebody buys everything on eBay by abusing your account? You are not going to have to pay for anything. eBay has procedures in place to let the next highest bidder win. They will apologize to you, and you just change your password and move on. It was eBay’s lack of biometric and behaviometric security that was responsible for the breach in the first place.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

And again, I get where you’re coming from… but you don’t actually know how any given program treats your login info… it might send it to a server anyway… that’s the point I was making. You actually don’t really know how much control you have over the info you send with a program on your desktop.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

The way I look at it is:

1. JBW holds the token/with eBay from my machine with connection on internet to snipe and do things I want it to do from my machine, which I have total physical control with.

where as

2. Gixen is controlled by others… and physically not controlled by you, so you have no control.

If you ever work and run servers and services for your customers you know how easy it is to access all those confidential information.

You can disagree, but it’s the same as trusting a big company will never harm your account when all it takes is a bad employee who will steal …. Restaurants do not steal your credit card info, it’s the people who work at the restaurant that will scan or keep your credit card info and sell it to crooks.

For Gixen, other will also be able to heck into their server and take whatever they want to have fun with.

Anyhow, you do it your way, I do it my way, as long as you are happy. Who cares?

Just won many things today with JBW while I was on the road so I am happy.

So many good deals when the economy is still down….

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

Whilst I agree that it is not OK to let others have your ebay password (since there are some rules at ebay about purchasing items you bid on, or your account may be abused by others) I also see the point Sumflow makes… how big could the damage really be to you.

Not wanting to frighten people, but we do give our account info to JBidwatcher, we don’t know the programming, if the designer would have wished so, he could still have all our logins, no different from Gixen… again, I’m not at all saying that either admins / designers save passwords, just saying that thinking it’s safer because it’s on your PC is a bit naïve, it still connects to the internet.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

Why?

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

so it’s okay for you to let others to have your ebay account login and password?

Maybe it’s okay for you, but not for me.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

Your eBay password does not have access to any funds. So, why would anyone go to the trouble to get your eBay password if they are not going to get anything out of it. There needs to be some reward, in the case of your eBay password there is none.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

I hope you are not implying that it’s kind of okay to have only your eBay account password compromised?

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Placing bids with your computer off

It is no different than Mint.com for bank accounts, or Wikinvest.com for investments, as far as logging on goes to a secure site through an interface.

As long as you have a separate password word for Paypal, your eBay password does not have access to any funds. And, you can change your password at any time.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

I probably learned it from you, it has not happened to me. It is just that it seems like a lot of uninformed bidders are trying to make the last accepted bid, which is not what sniping people, or bids is about.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

May 2009, to be precise…..

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

“..It might take a computer a microsecond but my Roadrunner connection will take a lot longer than that…”

Umm…that’s not an issue. That’s allowed for in the timings. And you’re not really addressing the original question, which asked if JBidWatcher could send two snipes within a short time – say, two seconds. I believe (and Morgan can correct me if I’m wrong) that JBidWatcher can send out many snipes within 1 second. I don’t think that JBidWatcherneeds to ‘wait for confirmation’ before sending out another snipe. So people can safely bid on several items (within reason!) that are ending at the same time, and do not have to adjust their timings to allow for their multiple bids.

By the way, I was the one who pointed out that issue with a lower earlier bid – over a year ago now…..

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

“It takes very little time to send off a bid…. I suspect that Jbidwatcher can handle snipes that are microseconds apart….”

It might take a computer a microsecond but my Roadrunner connection will take a lot longer than that. If we have our snipe-time set to close to the end, we will miss it. Not only that, but we can be beaten by lower bids that get there first.

You can have a higher price and still lose, unless you get there first.

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

I believe it takes about two seconds to place a bid (and receive confirmation and get ready for the next one) so unless you have your snipe-time set to close to the end it shouldn’t be a problem. Where you might run into problems is where a seller has placed dozens of auctions with the exact same end-time then you might have to adjust your snipe-time to get them all before time runs out.

Yours
Ivan

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Can JBidWatcher do more than 1 snipe at once?

Yes.

It takes very little time to send off a bid. A machine-generated bid does not have to wait for a web page to come up. I suspect that Jbidwatcher can handle snipes that are microseconds apart….

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / First bid advantage

A winning bidders maximum bid must exceed the current auction price by a full increment, but it only needs to beat the first losers highest bid by one cent to win.

As far as a time advantage goes, as long as you have the maximum accepted bid, it does not matter when you place it. But when two bids are the same price, or the later bids fail to exceed the first bid by a full increment, the first bid wins.