Topic: JBidwatcher Development / Check if Jbid is still able to bid (due to ebay modifications)

I made this suggestion maybe a year ago, but I don’t’ think anyone ever replied, and it wasn’t implemented.

Basically jbidwatcher keeps breaking, because ebay keeps making changes. I understand that is unavoidable the way this software access’s ebay without having to pay a licensing fee, but I feel the software is a little ‘dumb’ in that it doesn’t know it can’t snipe anymore until it snipes and nothing happens. This is also the most annoying moment for me, as I’m often infront of the computer when the snipe happens so could have done it manually.

I was wondering if when a snipe is added, the software might be able to make a bid for 1cent, which is obviously not going to be accepted, but it will check if jbid can still actually bid, and if it can’t then maybe an alarm or something can trigger to alert users that jbid will no longer work until a new version is released. Maybe jbid could put in a 1cent bid every 12 hours until the end of the auction to ensure the software is still working.

Using this method is how I now manually check to make sure jbid is still working, but an automated process would be better.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Check if Jbid is still working?

Hi, I think this is a great programme, It’s the only way I interact with ebay and I’d be in a pickle if it ever stopped working due to ebay changing code or whatever.

It’s been my unfortunate experience to be using jbid to snipe on auctions just after they’ve changed code and before a new version of jbid was released. So I was sitting there infront of the computer, watching it snipe, but bid did not go through because of whatever ebay change was made. This has happened twice now.

Anyway is there something I can do a few minutes before an auction finishes to ensure that jbid will still work with ebay. My idea was to bid using jbid, rather than snipe and bid at an amount that was less than the current price. And if ebay gives me an error message, telling me too low, than the snipe should work?

What do people think about that?