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I am runing Linux (Kubuntu Feisty) and java 1.6.0_01. The jar file JBidWatcher-1.0.2pre3.jar doesn’t work here. It refuses to let me input details of an item I wanted to snipe.

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@Frank P. fro…

No, I am from a family of a lot of attorneys/lawywers. I am a business administrator and mathematican in Germany. My second point is, that every online-shop dealing with eBay has to use the interface(s) provided by eBay. Consequently eBay has to communicate changes in advance, if they do not want to face the accusation of abuse of market power, because they damage the owners of the shops.

My first point is, that eBay lost the case(s) against sniper software producer PTS in Berlin. eBay is not allowed to abuse the market position to void consumers investments and spoil the chances for the distribution of updates to be used for the eBay platform.

Right? Or, wrong?

Best regards,

Heiner

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Hi xanaxi! I hope I can help you with “what is meant by CVS?”

Its stands for Concurrent Version System and is the place where some developers place the latest development packages of their software. You can get more info at:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs…

Software deposited in the repositories at CVS are VERY bleeding edge, and may be buggy, so its best not to rely on them for stability, but until you try and feedback problems you find, the software in the repositories won’t get enhanced….

You don’t mention which OS you’re running but here on Kubuntu Feisty, there’s a neat application called Cervisia which access the repositories in CVS directly. You might have such an application on your OS. HTH Graham

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Hello. On WinXp in France, the .exe does not work. But the .jar 1.01.1 (the “hack one”) is still ok.

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Hello,
i was loading yesterday the JBidWatcher-1.0.1.1-java1.5.jar. this version works for me still fine ! I am located in germany. It runs for me on xp SP2 with java jre 1.5.0_11. i sniped yesterday one item with success. the new versions since this time always shows me the red eye, only JBidWatcher-1.0.1.1-java1.5.jar is working for me !

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Hi to all,

what sad days without Jbidwatcher… Relating to the other replies in this thread, I do have 2 Questions:
1. What is meant by CVS? (sorry for this quest beeing stupid and misplaced)
2. When refering to “update” a JBW version, it means just to start the newer one, correct?

I could successfully snipe on an item yesetrday evening with 1.01. The use of pre2 and pre3 didn´t bring any advantage. No updating, no myebay, no adding which way ever I tried. System WXPSP” Java 1.42

Morgan: I do appreciate your program so much. Soon I hope to be off financial trouble and than will be donating for your outstanding work. Stay tuned…

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Good Morning,

Loaded 1.0.2pre3 yesterday and all appeared to be well until I rebooted this A.M.
Getting red eyes across the board again and will not add new items. Have not attempted
to submit bid or try the snipe feature. Prior to trying 2pre3 I had loaded and played with the fix Hans submitted and everything seems to work. Was able to add bids, update, bid directly using program and was successful using snipe feature.

Franko

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OSX 10.3, no go at all. search or “my ebay items” says “nothing new”, adding an auction by name gives “either invalid or communication error talking to server”.

I can telnet to www.ebay.com.au port 80, and to www.ebay.com.au port 80.  Cut and paste the item number into ebay, it finds it, so the number's correct,

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Looks like eBay have changed their heading format again:

Note the lack of any mention of ebay and the hyphenation. By not mentioning eBay explicitly JBW doesn’t believe the title is valid (error, not signed in etc). If you change the title validation match then the hyphen gets appended to all the titles since JBW ends the title string immediately before ” (item”. Anyway, for those with a CVS checkout, you just need to change jbidwatcher.properties to use the following lines specified here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=d…

(The forum formatting rules didn’t like the regular expression strings one bit which is why I’ve posted it at sourceforge.)

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Here in Germany eBay was not able to forbid sniper programs, because their profits must not be guaranteed. (I am even 100% sure, that their profits decrease without sniper programs) I am nearly sure, that eBay can be motivated by a temporary restraint order or a court decission to give full documentation about the interface changes in advance and, to stop implement code changes.

Should their be interest in fair market behavior ordererd by a court please let me know.

CU.

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Same for eBay Australia with pre3 – red eyes.
Can still make bids but no updated information displayed

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Same thing with ebay.at:
Sun Jul 22 12:55:37 CEST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “HP Scanjet 3400C – (item 320138004352 end time Jul-22-07 07:48:16 PDT)”
Sun Jul 22 12:55:37 CEST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Sun Jul 22 12:55:37 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).

(JBidWatcher-1.0.2pre3 & java 1.4.2_13 on Kubuntu)

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Hi, just tried pre3 failed to load any ebay items, switched back to pre2 just the same, not getting any auctions at all. Mac OS10.4.10 Ebay.co.uk

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Damn ebay! Again another change! :-/

I confirm too the “Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.” error.

Tested under Mac and Linux (on ebay.com, ebay.com.au, ebay.it).

Thank you.

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thanks for trying to solve the problems quickly, Morgan. I’m having the same issues as steve_harris16 on windows, if i can help in some way let me know.

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Red eyes and error messages for me too now – Linux – SuSE

Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Failed to load auction title from header:

Alas! Thanks for efforts so far . . .

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red eye for me to

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Hi, I have tried every Windows version of JBW that I have on my PC (on the off chance that eBay had removed their recent changes) & none of them work unfortunately. 1.0.2pre2 worked fine a few hours ago. Now, no updates & no additions again.

Thanks for all your efforts though Morgan, much appreciated.

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Here it works with 1.0.2pre2 (OSX 10.4.10) until this morning.
Now “red-eye” grr again and cannot add auction.
pre3 doesn`t help… sorry!

Nevertheless: Good vibes from overseas Morgan,
and … Thanks for all! :-*

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Hello,

Using JbidWatcher on SuSE linux. So far so good.

Great work Morgan! Thank you

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Same for me as well, seemed to stop working sometime between midnight and 09:00 this morning.

But have noticed that US auctions do not have a Red Eye

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Updated to 1.0.1pre3 about 8 hrs ago – worked great. restarted my iMac about half an hour ago – back to square one with no auction updates, failure to recognise my bids for “private listing” bids

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Sorry, I should have also mentioned that JBidwatcher is no longer updating the auctions, won’t add new auctions and all (FP) auctions over 7 days have a N/A in the time left.

Regards Hoddy

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“Red eye” for me too !

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Everything was ok this morning with 1.0.2pre2 (win xp) on ebay FR
Since a few minutes ; no more updating.
I upgraded to 1.0.2pre3 and no auction update anymore …