Topic: Ebay Affiliate cookies

I have same question, what should I do if I want to use the fatwallet ebay link? is there a way to do it?

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

Greetings,
Onslow has it right, here, and I’ve responded to this in a number of places now… I’ll see if I can’t find a better way to report it in-program, but not for the immediately upcoming release.

eBay sellers have been including more requirements, most often a requirement that you have a PayPal account linked to your eBay account, in the wake of the recent Feedback changes.

I recommend checking out your account settings.

Here’s an excerpt from one my responses to a similar bug report:

You should make sure that you have the right info set up, as per this page.

For me, this leads eventually to:

http://payments.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?UserA…

which has the text:

If you have a PayPal account, you can add your PayPal addresses to this page.

After going through the linking process, it has the text:

PayPal address:

This address is linked from your PayPal account

It’s more than just having the same address, it has to be explicitly linked.

Actually, it’s kind of funny because I have had an eBay account (and a PayPal account) for a really long time, and the original linking process between PayPal and eBay was entirely automatic, so something’s changed that broke that.

I hope that info helps!

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

Here is Ebay’s solution:
1. Login to ebay account.
2. Go to “my ebay”.
3. click on “addresses” on the left hand side under “my account”.
4. click on “view all shipping addresses”.
5. scroll down and click “add PayPal addresses”.
this brings you to a PayPal login screen where it tells you that you will be linking your accounts.
the confirmation screen is a bit confusing as it tells you that you’ve successfully created a new paypal account…

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

Just did some digging on this by going through posting an item for auction and the section that concerns us is “add buyer requirements”. In this section the buyer can select the following:

1. Have a feedback score equal to or lower than X
2. Have 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days
3. Have bid on or bought my items within the last 10 days and met my limit of X
3a. Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score equal to or lower than X (Control the number of items a single buyer can purchase)
4. Don’t have a PayPal account (PayPal account holders have up to an 80% lower Unpaid Item rate.)

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

Anybody know a fix for this buyer conditions problem?

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

I had a chance to test JBidWatcher again… seems my problem was the seller’s listing wants paypal using buyers (which I have been for a long time) and Ebay’s system (which may be a more “recent” change) to do that verification now has to have your paypal and ebay accounts “linked”. How I determined this:

1. Found and manually bid on an item with 3 days left to go that has “paypal required” listed in it (and that I’d take if I actually won it during testing)... Ebay stopped me from manually bidding and wanted to confirm linking ebay&paypal accounts – did so.

2. Set up JBW to snipe with 30600 seconds (there were 3 days and 13 hours left on the auction at this point) on this same item with a slightly higher bid than someone else countered with after step 1. Let JBW run to do its snipe.

3. Received a different “error during snipe” from JBW on the pop-up details on the auction line, but checking on the ebay site it shows I was outbid (which could be an error…might be better to show I was outbid than just an error) – but that the amount I bid with JBW was recorded there so I knew it worked.

4. Reset JBW with <10 real a and seconds to used snipe target>

John

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

I also got this last night (gaahhhhh!!) first time using JBidwatcher (all the other auctions went above my price) this one was $50 below what I was willing to pay but got:

Tue Apr 08 21:19:10 CDT 2008: Preparing snipe. (1)
Tue Apr 08 21:21:09 CDT 2008: Firing actual snipe. (1)
Tue Apr 08 21:21:14 CDT 2008: You don’t meet some requirement the seller has set for the item. Check the item details for more information. (1)

I looked through the whole auction and have not found anything that would cause me to not meet the requirements

Topic: Buyer Requirements Error

I’ve been having the same problem over the last week… Here’s one from today:

“Events
Fri Mar 28 17:27:20 EDT 2008: Preparing snipe. (1)
Fri Mar 28 17:29:19 EDT 2008: Firing actual snipe. (1)
Fri Mar 28 17:29:20 EDT 2008: You don’t meet some requirement the seller has set for the item. Check the item details for more information. (1)”

By the way, I also use “buyer tools reminder” and that has not been working either. I can manually make trades, it’s just sniping doesn’t work both here and there. Looks like Ebay changed some of the user summary page layouts today (28th), so they may have been fiddling with the other parts of the system over the last couple of weeks.

J

Topic: Ebay Affiliate cookies

So there isn’t a way to get affiliate tracking to work? Fatwallet just started a 1% cashback for ebay purchases but almost all my bids are snipes.

Topic: Ebay Affiliate cookies

Thanks, that helps a lot.

I’m surprised you could decipher my hastily types, error ridden message!

Topic: Ebay Affiliate cookies

Greetings,
Yes and no, JBidwatcher logs in ‘fresh’ when placing a snipe. JBidwatcher has no connection with your browser cookies at all, so site-dropped cookies are not preserved.

However, the way eBay has historically worked, is that they ‘mark’ the user account with the associated CJ id of the link that brought the user to a page on their site. If that user places a bid, they credit it no matter the user cookies at the time of the bid to the CJ account.

So it’s very possible for someone to click through your link and then clear their cookies, re-log in, and you still get credited. That was prior to their recent change to the new link structure, so I don’t know what their behavior is now.

The ‘ebay.affiliate’ config option is a leftover from a few releases ago when I asked users to decide whether or not to allow JBidwatcher’s bids to go through the affiliate program.

The code got turned off relatively quickly, as eBay made it clear that their affiliate program was not open to sniping software, but the underlying code still remained. I pushed a new version which disabled most of it, and then pushed a ‘live config’ change not long after which should have turned off affiliate mode for all users a while ago.

I hope this info helps…

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Ebay Affiliate cookies

Hi there,

I run an Ebay affiliate program via Commission Junction. Every bid that gets placed after my link is clicked earns me a small commission.

does JBidWatcher pass these additional cokoies along to Ebay as well?

I see ther is a ebay,affilkiate config option. Is that what this is for?

Rob