Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Which is a good stable release right now?

Morgan, as you can tell from all the posts since August 8 when you released 2.1.1, there are a lot of problem.

Drag and Drop doesn’t work, but most importantly, the auction history is all messed up. For me, it’s parsing the dates on the closed auction incorrectly, so all the auctions are listed in the wrong order.

Others are posting that they’ve lost their entire auction history, which sounds like a database issue.

I’m also having the problem that others are reporting that auctions will spontaneously be marked as over, when they’re still running, and auctions that have completed get “stuck” on the active auction list, and don’t get moved to the history.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Drag&Drop to 2.1.1 not working

Likewise, drag and drop stopped working. I gather Ebay has changed the auction header again.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Problems with 2.1.1

I’m having problems with the completed listings as well — JBid doesn’t seem to parse the complete date correctly, so all the completed listings are out of order.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Missed snipe

Another confirmation of the failed snipe on 2.0beta11-736

Events
Sun Feb 08 20:05:51 CST 2009: Preparing snipe.
Sun Feb 08 20:05:55 CST 2009: Loading bid request…
Sun Feb 08 20:05:56 CST 2009: Done loading bid request, got form…
Sun Feb 08 20:07:52 CST 2009: Firing actual snipe.
Sun Feb 08 20:07:52 CST 2009: Submitting bid form.
Sun Feb 08 20:07:53 CST 2009: Done submitting bid form.
Sun Feb 08 20:07:53 CST 2009: Loading post-bid data.
Sun Feb 08 20:07:53 CST 2009: Failed to load post-bid data. ‘Show Last Error’ from context menu to see the failure page from the post-bid page.
Sun Feb 08 20:07:53 CST 2009: Unknown error sniping on NEW DIGITAL SCALE READOUT HORIZONTAL TYPE 0-300 MM

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Cancelling snipe, auction is reported as ended.

This is the same Pre-Snipe login bug that all the other posters are having problems with.

JBidWatcher is broken for now, until Morgan re-writes the login code.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Cancelling snipe" - so how did JBW win the item?

This is the same Pre-snipe login failure bug that all the others are having problems with.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Can't login anymore since yesterday

Yes, Ebay has broken JBidWatcher again. I reported this problem at the beginning of October, sent email to Morgan, and there are nearly a dozen identical bugs filed about this problem.

JBidWatcher tries over and over to log in to your Ebay account, the login protocol is failing, and Ebay locks the account with a “Captcha” thinking that it’s a bot trying to hack into your account. Then you have to stop running JBidwatcher for several days to reset the Captcha.

I’ve lost at least 6 auctions in the last 2 weeks because of this bug :(

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / JBW didn't snipe

JBidWatcher has a serious bug with the latest Ebay login protocol. I’m losing about 20% of my snipes because of the “Pre Snipe Login Failed”

I’d really like to hear an answer from Morgan, there are several reports of this same bug here (including my own), and there are nearly a dozen identical bugs filed on the bug tracker.

This is one of my auctions that just failed because of the Pre-Snipe Login bug:

Sat Oct 18 13:55:57 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:55:57 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Preparing snipe.
Sat Oct 18 13:55:57 CDT 2008: Getting the sign in cookie.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:14 CDT 2008: Couldn’t sign in!
Read timed out at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedE…(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receiveData(Http.java:162) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receivePage(Http.java:186) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getAdultConfirmation(ebayLoginManager.java:111) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getAdultRedirector(ebayLoginManager.java:106) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:199) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:161) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.Snipe.preSnipe(Snipe.java:85) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.Snipe.fire(Snipe.java:46) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayServer$SnipeListener.messageAction(ebayServer.java:654) at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.PlainMessageQueue.run(PlainMessageQueue.java:55) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method) at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFi…(Unknown Source) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.handleRedirect(CookieJar.java:164) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.getAllCookiesFromPage(CookieJar.java:146) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.getAllCookiesFromPage(CookieJar.java:126) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.checkHTMLFollowRedirect(ebayLoginManager.java:69) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.checkFollowRedirector(ebayLoginManager.java:60) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getAdultRedirector(ebayLoginManager.java:105) ... 7 more

Sat Oct 18 13:56:14 CDT 2008: Did not successfully retrieve the sign in cookie.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:14 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:56:14 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Pre-snipe login failed. Snipe will be retried, but is unlikely to fire.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:14 CDT 2008: Pre-snipe login failed.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:36 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:56:36 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Preparing snipe.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:36 CDT 2008: Getting the sign in cookie.
...
Sat Oct 18 13:56:39 CDT 2008: File contents logged with message: Neutral login result…
...
Sat Oct 18 13:56:39 CDT 2008: Done getting the sign in cookie.
Sat Oct 18 13:56:39 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:56:39 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Loading bid request…
Sat Oct 18 13:56:40 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:56:40 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Done loading bid request, got form…
Sat Oct 18 13:58:08 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:58:08 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Cancelling snipe, auction is reported as ended.
Sat Oct 18 13:58:08 CDT 2008: Sat Oct 18 13:58:08 CDT 2008: 220293547536 (FAFNIR 2MM203WI DUL SUPERPRECISION BEARING, NIB) – Cancelling snipe.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "login was not clearly recognized as successful"

“the login did not cause any errors and delivered cookies , but was not clearly recognized as successful”.

Morgan, I’m getting the same thing with 2.0beta8—the login fails, and then triggers the Ebay Captcha crap, and then I have to turn off JBidWatcher for a couple of days to re-set the Ebay security monitoring.

I’m guessing that Ebay is now checking for automated logins, and JBidWatcher constantly updates the Ebay login cookie, so it looks like you’re logging-in to Ebay over, and over…

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

By the way, there also seems to be a serious problem with JBidwatcher 1.0.2 synchronizing time with the Ebay server clocks. Aside the several time-synch issues reported in this thread (including mine), there are a slew of similar bug reports on the JBidWatcher SourceForge bug tracking page:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=103914&gro…

I’ve been using JBidWatcher for years (on the same computer) and have never had the time synch issues before…

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

Cyberpip, I don’t see any posts in this thread where Morgan talks about 1.0.3pre1.

JBidWatcher 1.0.2 is now completely random—sometimes the snipes fire, sometimes they don’t, but even when the snipe does fire JBidwatcher can’t understand the response from the Ebay servers, and gives you an error message that “Snipe failed for unknown reason” (when you actually won the auction).

“The only problem I forsee is that I have to agree that ebay seems to be trying to prevent snipping software from working since it helps prevent running up the bids and costs them money.”

Ebay is more than happy to support sniping programs. They even provide a software developer’s toolkit to help you write Ebay software. The problem is that they charge for the software developer’s kit, and Morgan can’t continue to release JBidWatcher as freeware if he has to buy the Ebay developer’s kit.

It sure look like Ebay is trying to “encourage” Morgan to buy the developer’s kit by constantly changing the Ebay server messages to throw-off software developers who haven’t purchases the official Ebay software kit.

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

“It probably has something to do with eBay’s new beta pages.”

I don’t think so—I just had another snipe fail with the same “Failed to load from server” error.

I think it’s pretty obvious that Ebay is randomly changing the server handshake messages to discourage software developers who haven’t purchased the Ebay API/SDK.

Does anyone have any other snipe programs they could recommend?

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

JBidWatcher isn’t working at all now.

I just had two auctions close, and JBidWatcher didn’t fire the snipe at all:

Events
Sun Aug 26 10:35:50 CDT 2007: Communications failure talking to the server. (1)
Sun Aug 26 10:35:50 CDT 2007: Failed to load from server! (1)
Sun Aug 26 12:35:59 CDT 2007: Communications failure talking to the server. (1)
Sun Aug 26 12:35:59 CDT 2007: Failed to load from server! (1)
Sun Aug 26 15:48:04 CDT 2007: Preparing snipe. (1)
Sun Aug 26 15:50:05 CDT 2007: Firing actual snipe. (1)
Sun Aug 26 15:50:06 CDT 2007: Unknown error sniping on 2 Sets of 2 BARDEN Precision Bearings NEW 307HDL (1)

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

Hi Morgan,

I just had a “no prior bids” snipe that triggered with the same message. The one I posted above had bids on it—I’ll check the debug message in a couple of minutes…

Robert

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

So yesterday I got an error message that the snipe didn’t trigger, but I won the auction anyway??!

Events
Tue Aug 21 12:02:25 CDT 2007: Communications failure talking to the server. (1)
Tue Aug 21 12:02:25 CDT 2007: Failed to load from server! (1)
Wed Aug 22 16:54:05 CDT 2007: Communications failure talking to the server. (1)
Wed Aug 22 16:54:05 CDT 2007: Failed to load from server! (1)
Thu Aug 23 20:57:55 CDT 2007: Preparing snipe. (1)
Thu Aug 23 20:59:54 CDT 2007: Firing actual snipe. (1)
Thu Aug 23 20:59:55 CDT 2007: Unknown error sniping on 7 ABEC 7 Precision Angular Contact Bearings. (1)

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

“I am still having time sync issues. Never had it with 1.0, or 1.01.”

Likewise. Something has changed.

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

Hi Morgan,

I’m not sure how to interpret the results of the Time Information Window:

Current time: Thu Aug 16 17:32:02 CDT 2007
Page load time: 608
eBay Time delta: 6641

I’m guessing that’s in milliseconds, so the clock delta in 6.6 seconds?
I’ve got the atomic clock synchronization scheduled for the top of the hour, each hour.

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

Wow, I’ve been using JBidWatcher for years, and never had that problem before. I’ve got my Windows XP desktop synchronized with one of the internet atomic time clocks (time.windows.com) once an hour, and my snipe delay is 5 seconds…

Just a coincidence that this happened with JBidWatcher 1.0.2?

Topic: Announcements / [Release] JBidwatcher 1.0.2 is now available!

I just had an auction fail Morgan. The snipe value was way over the final closing price, and the message was that the auction could not be bid on anymore because the auction had closed:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…

Currently: $86.03 (5 Bids)
High Bidder: koolu01
Your max bid: $128.99
Shipping: $18.00
Seller: aztool-jerry
Listing ended at: Thu Aug 16 13:00:00 CDT 2007
Listing is ended. Events
Thu Aug 16 12:42:48 CDT 2007: Failed to load from server! (1)
Thu Aug 16 12:58:27 CDT 2007: Preparing snipe. (1)
Thu Aug 16 13:00:27 CDT 2007: Firing actual snipe. (1)
Thu Aug 16 13:00:27 CDT 2007: Snipe apparently failed, as the auction cannot be bid on anymore: USED KO LEE B947 TAP GRINDING FIXTURE 806 (1)

Topic: Announcements / 1.0.2pre6 - Fixes currencies and title issues

Morgan,

I just checked the JRE debugger this morning, and there’s no memory leak—JBidWatcher stabilized at 31 MBytes.

Thanks again!!!

Robert

Topic: Announcements / 1.0.2pre6 - Fixes currencies and title issues

Thanks Morgan! When I cleared the deleted tracking, JBidWatcher no longer deleted the auctions.xml file.

I think I found a memory leak though: I set the debug.memory flag, and I’m getting 509.1 MB Max Memory, and 80 MByte of memory in use (this is with a 4 MByte auctions.xml file). If I hit the GC key, the Memory Use drops to 17.3 MByte, but then steadily increases: it’s up to 34 MByte 5 minutes after I did a garbage collection.

I’ll leave it running overnight – I’m curious to see what the memory usage is in the morning…

Cheers,

Robert

Topic: Announcements / 1.0.2pre6 - Fixes currencies and title issues

By the way Morgan, one other nuisance issue: since 1.0, JBidWatcher will pop up an “Unknown Sniping Error” bubble if the snipe value is below the current auction price at the programmed snipe time.

I’m assuming this is because JBidWatcher is not parsing the message from Ebay that the snipe amount is below the current minimum bid.

Cheers,

Robert

Topic: Announcements / 1.0.2pre6 - Fixes currencies and title issues

Hi Morgan,

I’ve been having a problem with JBidWatcher 1.0.2pre5 and 1.0.2pre6 deleting the auctions.xml file, and restarting from scratch.

I have a very large auctions.xml file (around 4 MByte) with all my Ebay activities over the last couple of years (which I keep for price comparisons). If I delete the auctions.xml file and replace with the last dated auctions save file (auctions-10Aug07_1034.xml), everything works fine until the next time I launch JBidwatcher, and then it deletes the auction.xml file again.

Cheers,

Robert