Greetings,

eBay changed a few pieces of their pages and as a result, JBidwatcher 1.0.1 is not currently working; I have a fix in the source tree, and will release it as soon as I can confirm that it works in the majority of cases.

Thank you very much for your patience!

If you are comfortable getting and building the CVS source branch, I’d love confirmation that it works for you.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Note that sniping in 1.0.1 still works.

However, auctions being tracked by JBidWatcher will not be updated, nor can you add new ones (including sync’ing of watched items from My eBay).

just a hint: you might want to take a look at the topic “Has ebay broke it? (19 July 07) last” in the “JBidwatcher Help” forum. There’s a quick fix available until the next official version is out.

bye, Hans

I strongly advise people NOT to use the CVS patch at this time.

I upgraded and JBW upon retrieving updated information decided that all my auctions had ended and moved them to completed. Unfortunately, the items have not yet ended! The end time quoted by JBW appears to be the time the update request was sent/received.

Greetings,

From what I can see, there is a problem reading fixed-price listings. I think normal auctions should be fine.

Can you let me know if the listings which got moved to completed were fixed-price (‘Buy It Now’) items?

I’m glad someone other than me is trying it out. :)

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

They were all normal biddable auctions. (Not sure if it makes a difference but my preferred/configured eBay site is .co.uk.) I didn’t have time to track down what was going on as I was rather busy last night. I’ll take another look this evening.

Greetings,

I’ve fixed a lot of different types of listings; I’m having trouble building (my build box is 800 miles away and something is wrong with it’s network), but I think the version in CVS is close to an interim release…

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Resync’d to version in CVS and things look promising. JBW no longer thinks auctions have finished when they haven’t and correctly updated the auctions it was tracking. Adding new auctions manually and sync’ing with My eBay works.

I’ll leave it running for a while and see how things go but at this point I share your optimism that the issue is resolved or close to it.

I have been using Jbid for 6 weeks now and like the product But presently NOTHING is working.
-No Updates
-NO Sniping
-NO Adding new auctions or getting My Ebay items

Greetings,

I just put up a few first pass pre-release versions. They should have built with Java 1.5, and so should work on most modern Java runtimes. The actual release will hopefully be built with 1.4.2, although I’m having some trouble with the machine that I usually do my release builds on.

OS X

Linux

Source code

I haven’t managed to put together a Windows version, it requires some tools that I haven’t installed on my local build machine.

When I do, it’ll be at: Windows

This is a quick off-the-cuff version, hopefully it helps. Please let me know of any issues with it, and listings that it doesn’t view properly!

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

...short of sniping (untried as of yet), seems to resolve standing issues on OS X 10.4.10 with respect to properly parsing and updating queued listings. Sweet! (Just make sure to `cp -R ~/.jbidwatcher` to another location in case of mishaps.)

Is this the first time JBidwatcher has been built with Java 1.5? I haven’t fired up the old lappy in a while, but isn’t this flavor unavailable to users of OS X 10.3.9 … ?

I’m not sure why it’s working for you Yendo, when I add an auction under OS X, there is no error but the auction is not added. Here is the console log of what happens when I try to add an auction or sync with myEbay.

Fri Jul 20 15:14:34 EDT 2007: PMQ Caught exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Date.getMillisOf(Date.java:938) at java.util.Date.after(Date.java:911) at AuctionEntry.checkEnded(Unknown Source) at AuctionEntry.prepareAuctionEntry(Unknown Source) at AuctionEntry.<init>(Unknown Source) at AuctionsManager.newAuctionEntry(Unknown Source) at JBidMouse.addAuction(Unknown Source) at JBidMouse.cmdAddAuction(Unknown Source) at JBidMouse.messageAction(Unknown Source) at PlainMessageQueue.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

Kevin, I can safely add auctions both by drag-n-drop and by cmd+I … and I don’t see any complaints in the Console. I’m running the pre-release on OS X 10.4.10 atop a 15” MBP (Intel). Auctions are pulled from ebay.com (US).

Greetings,

It is indeed the first time it’s been built on 1.5. OS X 10.3.x is one of the reasons I continue to build on 1.4.2, in fact.

I can go into more about this in another thread (probably the development forum would be more appropriate), but once 10.5 is released (and stabilizes), I’ll probably push the minimum requirement up to Java 1.5.

Kevin, are you using the latest version I put up there? You can confirm for yourself that you’re running the right version by looking in the About box, and checking that it’s 1.0.2pre1.

If you can give me an item # that version isn’t loading I’ll investigate.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

I’m able to drag and drop auctions that still have at least one day left. Anything less than one day I’m unable to DnD; can’t manually add the auction number, either. My eBay not synchronizing. Using 1.0.2pre1 in Mac OS 10.4.10

Greetings,

These builds include several changes to improve price, end time, and general item recognition. They are also built with 1.4.2, and include a Windows version. PLEASE try these out, and let me know any issues which come up. It’s my first time building on the new box, and I set up the various tools pretty quickly, so I want to know as soon as possible if there are any problems.

OS X

Linux

Source code

Windows

In the process of building these, I realized that CVS is a while behind my actual checkins. There’s a synchronization step between authenticated checkins and anonymous access to those changes. :(

These are built out of the current CVS tree, but if you check it out, you might not get the same changes. That’s why I put the source file up there also.

Let me know how it works!

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Hi Morgan,

pre2 at least lets me add an auction which I haven’t been able to do for a couple of days!

Great Work!

This is on eComStation (aka OS/2) with Java 1.4.2

Have just installed the Windows version of pre2 under Vista and it’s successfully updated old auctions, loaded new ones from my eBay and made some bids. Though I haven’t sniped with it yet, all appears fine so far.

Just installed on Mac OS X.4.10. I don’t see any problems—updated existing auctions, read in new ones. I don’t have a snipe set until 12 hours from now though, so can’t test that.

Just tried to snipe in an auction and JBidWatcher gave an ‘error connecting’ just as it tried to put the snipe in. I was outsniped anyway, which means it was no great loss, but my late bid didn’t seem to get in. Vista/pre2.

Hi, have to say thank you! Just tried the latest posted in this thread, and the snipe at four seconds worked fine. Windows XP home/SP2 and Java 1.6.0_01-b06

Morgan

As a UK user of JBidwatcher, subscribed to ebay.co.uk, I am really pleased to report that 1.0.2pre2 now successfuly updates auctions and allows auctions to be pasted. I have not yet had the opportunity to test sniping but will hopefully be able to report on that later today.

Well done!

Edward

Morgan
The only thing I see with the Windows version of your update is the time left for Buy It Now items is defaulting to 30 days when I Got My eBay. When it updated the current Buy It Nows on JBid it installed N/A in the time left. At the next update it changed all of the 30 day times left to N/A. Much Much better than before. Thanks for your hard work!
Noah

So far, so good.
system@wxsat:_{> java -Xmx512m -jar ~/JBidWatcher-1.0.2pre2.jar &
[1] 21789
system@wxsat:}:50> Sat Jul 21 08:25:29 EDT 2007: Getting the sign in cookie. [RBEmerson@ebay: 21-Jul-2007 08:25:29 EDT/21-Jul-2007 08:25:29 EDT]
Sat Jul 21 08:25:52 EDT 2007: Loading page 0 of My eBay for user RBEmerson
Sat Jul 21 08:25:52 EDT 2007: URL: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&LogU…:ME:PAGE&FolderId=&GotoPage=1
Sat Jul 21 08:25:53 EDT 2007: Loading page: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&Curr…
Sat Jul 21 08:25:54 EDT 2007: No items on page!
Sat Jul 21 08:25:54 EDT 2007: Loaded 300131074754.
Sat Jul 21 08:25:55 EDT 2007: Loaded 230146812451.

I just upgraded to 1.0.2pre2 for Windows, and am using XP SP2 Home. It doesn’t give an end time for BINs but aside from that I was able to successfully refresh, update My Ebay, and snipe with 3 seconds left. Aside from the item mentioned, I’d say this is a go! :)

Lynda