Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Loaded wrong item image, also forum error

When trying to view Maxx’s thread, I get “JBidwatcher Forum System Error Oops! It looks like there was an error.”

As to the main problem, I got a randomized item image today:

http://i.imgur.com/drztWw3.png

I have no idea what that image is, but it’s sure not the one for that auction. :)

Thanks again,
—Bushytails

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Any closer to another pre-release?

Yes, thanks!

I noticed the lack of adult items and multisniping, though! people use those features. :)

—Bushytails

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / VERY Disapointed

Not necessarily for all of us.
I am using 2.99 pre 5 on Win 10 and it’s fine if a little clunky. Been using JBid for years and it’s FREE!
It loads, updates and snipes on a regular basis. We all know that Morgan has a life, a family and, hopefully at present, a job.
We also know that an update is in the pipeline but requires fitting in with all those other things that life demands.
Most of us are still appreciative of that!

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / OK been running 2.56 bit 2/99 fails

I’ve upgraded my WinLOSE machine to Win 7 and the new 2.99.pre5 works… so I guess after months since I’ve posted this I’ve answered my own question just in case anyone stops by. 2.99pre5 does not work on XP and it probably has something to do with Java… Java me this and Java me that. Anyway I’ve glad it works. Thanks Morgan for the efforts for a thankless job!

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / German ebay detects JBidwatcher and blocking my IP???

Preventing someone to bid is not really fitting into the ebay business model. Before I used JBidWatcher I did manual sniping. It often did not work because I just forgot to do it. So with JBidWatcher everybody earned more from my sniping. So I doubt that ebay targets JBidWatcher.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / German ebay detects JBidwatcher and blocking my IP???

My ip was blocked for the same reason. Still don’t know what to do with it, we have to use proxies. The solution of this problem with ip is still not found?

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / VERY Disapointed

Once jbidwatcher was the best sniper out there. No more…. NOTHING works. It’s an ordeal just to start it up. It doesn’t update anything and it doesn’t SNIPE.
Years ago when I had my MAC the program worked perfectly. Now it’s a dud.
Perhaps one day when you get it fixed and working I’ll try again but for now I have to say … bye.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Any closer to another pre-release?

Thanks, Morgan, for the 16 years! Just wanted to say that.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Any closer to another pre-release?

Greetings,
It’s tempting. No, look…I still maintain it. I can tell you, statistically, that most people still succeed with their snipes, when their snipe is above the current price. I can tell you that because some folks have opted in to sharing that information with me, and I have a dashboard that tracks that stuff.

It’s a truism that most users only use 20-30% of a program. And while there’s some overlap, the thing each individual user doesn’t realize is that it’s not the same 20-30% for each user.

I’ve HAVE done a from-scratch reimplementation of JBidwatcher as a native app in a more (IMO) efficient language; I’m running it right now. It’s Mac-only, mind you, but it works. It loads the items, monitors them, allows drag-and-drop of items, logging in, has multiple folders, and other basic features.

It doesn’t snipe yet because that’s VASTLY complicated, but it’s my next step.

It doesn’t load ‘My eBay’, because that’s VASTLY complicated. I may never implement that, because it’s been a source of constant bugs since the first time I implemented it, and I loathe the feature because of that. eBay makes changes to the viewItem page VERY rarely. They change ‘My eBay’ constantly.

I have eliminated features in the core JBidwatcher, by the way.

• The newest JBidwatcher version doesn’t have a built-in server to serve expired listings
• doesn’t have internal RSS feeds
• doesn’t output or read XML files
• can’t give you an HTML-formatted view of the listings you’re watching
• doesn’t support mature audiences items (another constant support nightmare)
• doesn’t automatically fallback between international/non-international items (you have to pick one)
• doesn’t even support multisniping, which was a signature feature and unheard of when I added it. :(

I stripped a lot out of JBidwatcher, in the 2.99pre* series. But you know what has the most logic? The UI and the eBay parsing and control code. That stuff I need to have, no matter what other features I have in it. UI is 12,723 Lines Of Code by raw linecount (because I’m lazy right now), eBay handling (9,228 LOC). The rest is mostly support, database, configuration, and utility classes.

I don’t have a good answer for you. I’m the only person working on this, and I have been for 16 years. Sometimes my life takes priority, but I’ve always gotten back to it, and I’ve always responded when there’s an endemic problem. I feel lucky, because there hasn’t been one for a while…I’m probably due. :(

— Morgan

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Any closer to another pre-release?

Yep – seconded here. I’ve just lost yet another auction due to bidwatcher bugs. I have used it for years, and I don’t think it has ever been free of quite obvious bugs. If I could find a suitable alternative, I’d drop it like a shot.

Morgan – I think what is required is to simplify the code base drastically – all I want it to do is read the items in My eBay, and let me snipe them – nothing else. Why dont you ask the users what features they use? I bet 60 percent of the code base is never used. If you stripped out the cruft, just think how much easier your life would be maintaining the software. Or just give up? Say the software will no longer be maintained? At least the users would know where they were.

Cheers

Tim

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Any closer to another pre-release?

Any progress towards another pre-release with some bugs fixed?

The bugs I’d most like to see fixed:
Randomly declaring auctions as ended for no apparent reason and never sniping
Failing to retry anything, ever. Even when it says it will retry.
Not attempting to snipe if the pre-snipe login failed, even though the last login is most likely still valid
Not disabling time sync even when you use the checkbox to disable time sync

Thanks again,
—Bushytails

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Is the savefile (auctions.xml) defunct?

Greetings,
I don’t really have enough time to dig into this and find if there’s an alternate feature you could use, but yeah, the XML save file is kaput. It really hadn’t been keeping up with all the changes I was doing, and supporting the code to keep it going was making it hard to do other development.

It should be possible to do the same thing with a small Java program that queries the database, or some other mechanisms, but it’d take me a bit of time to figure out the best way to expose that.

I’m sorry about that.

— Morgan

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Is the savefile (auctions.xml) defunct?

Morgan?

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Set Seamonkey As Browser

Thank you, that worked.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Set Seamonkey As Browser

Greetings,
Let’s see… You need to set browser.override to true and then it’ll use browser.launch.{osname} as the launcher. Now if that’s not returning ‘Linux’, it might not work. That value comes from the first space-delimited word in System.getProperty("os.name").

I thought there was an Override 'detected' browser checkbox; if you check that, it should set browser.override to true for you, and then it should work…

— Morgan

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Set Seamonkey As Browser

Trying to set the browser that Jbid uses. OS is Linux. The command that works in terminal for Seamonkey is “/usr/lib64/seamonkey/seamonkey” but that doesn’t work in Jbidwatcher. Also tried just “seamomkey” and “seamonkey/seamonkey”.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / JBidwatcher (2.99pre5-2-g7251940) wont launch on Ubuntu 15.10

Same situation on ubuntu 16.04. To start the program you have to use from a terminal thr command ./jbidwatcher.sh from the program folder.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Login Failed on 2.5.6-11: Not Clearly Recognized As Successful

Problem: Not Clearly Recognized As Successful and yellow button.

Solution: I received a mail from Ebay in order to protect my account that I didn’t want to check because of time. I followed finally the instructions in that mail and received a pin via smartphone ()if you want ebay sends you via email). I put this pin in the login area and so I could protect my account. Since then the login button of jbidwatcher is green.

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / Code Analysis on JbidWatcher

Good evening all.

I really like to thank Morgan because of JBidwatcher… it saved me lots of money (i have to pay 4 BRZ for each 1 USD)
So if i can snipe, it saves me lots of cash.

I´m working on a project to my employer, and i guess it could help Jbid a little.
The work is based on SonarQube Framework, and it helped the corporation reduce bugs, memory leakage and prevent exploits and vulnerabilities.

The tool parses the source code, and points lots of stuff to improve code standards, reduce technical debt, close bugs and prevent vulnerabilities. The best of all, it helps people on how to do the corrections (showing a overlay proposing the compliance code).

I created an isolated enviroment which analyze JbidWatcher sources considering versions 2.5.7, 3.0 and the Master/Trunk (I imagine it´s pre something… maybe 2.9Pre)

With some hints from the tool, i guess the community can boost the git pushes. (unfortunately, i´m no coder…basically i´m the ALM/SOA/VMSphere/Tooling Man)

To better understand what i´m talking about, please check this Google Drive Link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0H0hnobkFrhRm5QcU4tUmFSQm8

I took some snapshots of the portal, and prepared a 7-zip pack with the environment ready to execute further analysis.

What is needed to inspect the future versions?

1) Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0+
2) A Browser (Firefox or Chrome recommended)
3) I also recommend Notepad++ to edit properties and the sonar-project.properties

How to:
a) Download the Jbid-Sonar Environment.7z (on the same folder which the pictures are located)
b) Decompress the package on a desired location using 7-Zip (I recommend c:\Sonar)
c) Locate the folder C:\SONAR\DEV\bin
d) Choose your O.S: In Linux, run the script “Sonar.sh”, in Windows run the batch “StartSonar.bat”
e) Open the browser, point to: Localhost:9000 or 127.0.0.1:9000
f) Sonar Portal should show the 3 versions analysed.
g) If you want to play or customize something, login as an admin. Login: Admin | Pass: Admin (Duh…)

Hope somehow, this help this project which i truly appreciate.

BTW, Sonarqube is open-source too!

Greetings from Brazil

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / 10.8+ Is there a real reason?

I have a setup that rarely fail, always can win for me if I set the sniping amount high enough (realistically enough).

Works on OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7, I think it should work with 10.8 which is what I might try later.

JBidwatcher (2.5.3pre3-2-g03a9bc3)

I keep this setup as I don’t want to deal with all the issues with new version of JBW combined with Java and OS X. I do have other machines that runs more on current software so as a sniping server, it’s working well for me always.

Hope that helps.

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / 10.8+ Is there a real reason?

Bwaaaaaaaa!

Dang it. JBW 2.5.6 just failed to log in, so I came looking for an update. Alas, looks like I can no longer use my Mac Cube as my JBidWatcher always-on computer, seeing as how it’s running 10.4.

Fine.

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / New feature request - multisnipe.

Um, back when multisniping worked, that was already a feature. Say you’ve selected a bunch of auctions, and selected them, and set up a multisnipe. Now, go back and click on just one of them, and change the bid amount. There you go. That one auction in the multisnipe set now has a different bid limit.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / no more thumbnails ?

Since I reverted to 2.5.6-11, the thumbnails came again. The Yellow dot after logging as well …
and all the other inconveniences !

Topic: That's SO beta! / Can't get pre5 to work using Intellij debug

Distributed source doesnt match decompiled sources esp in ui packages.. When my compiled class files replaced by class files from the package distribution., ui works ok. Please repost working sources. especially for jJTabManager.

Topic: General Sniping Discussion / General sniping question

You may wish to choose a snipe time shorter than the default 30 seconds, although making it too short (10 seconds or so) can result in missed bids. Many people re reporting snipes being bypassed, so be careful.

Also, BE SURE YOUR CLOCK is accurate. Be sure to use your OS features to set your clock to a reliable time server. JBidwatcher will attempt to make adjustments for a mis-set clock, but it works best if you set your clock to be accurate to a common time standard.

After you set your computer clock, then synchrnize your machine to eBay’s clock. Use the Server tab. First check the delta time using the “Time Information’”. The number reported is in milliseconds, so a number reported as 1000 represents a full second difference between the auction clock and your computer clock. Then Synchronize and recheck. You should see a lower number reported.