Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

I am using 2.1 pre4 on XP and ebay.co.uk and have the false FP issue – it also sets the prices to an incorrect figure.

But I have found that, if I drop JBidwatcher and restart it again, it comes back working. This seems to toggle – restart it again and it comes back broken……

Just means that in the morning you start JBid twice…

Topic: Ebay Plus + reward program

I believe (Morgan will correct me if I’m wrong) that each country’s site is formatted differently, and JBidwatcher has to find each field and understand its format before it can work.

That means Morgan has to continually check ebay.com for alterations which can break Jbidwatcher. If he had to watch all the other country’s sites as well, there would have to be 20 of him. So Jbidwatcher is set up to run on one site only…

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

still not working for me with this release on Mac os x. Doesn’t launch… can’t get passed the “loading auctions” window

Topic: Ebay Plus + reward program

I have a ebay.co.uk account and there is a new ebay reward program in the UK called Ebay Plus which gives points for purchases made via the ebay.co.uk website. Using jbidwatcher it seems to bid using the ebay.com site so not giving any reward points. Is there any chance of setting jbidwatcher to use exclusively the ebay.co.uk website so I can get reward points or do all snipes go via the ebay.com website? Thanks

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Starting yesterday and using 2.1pre4 on windows XP, I started once again to have false FPs and (unknown) sellers.
Example auctions : 360179394422 (false FP), 390079175171 (unknown)

Thanks for your work Morgan. It looks like ebay is making your life quite complicated.

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Why are you not using the current version (JBW 2.1Pre4)?

Just curious…

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Hi Morgan,

Sorry for bad news but JBidwatcher 2.0.1-825 still has false-FPs.
Sample auction numbers are 180394658849 and 320407333795.

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Hi Morgan, thanks for 2.1pre4, I downloaded it roughly an hour ago.
One issue that will probably interest you:
the US item (added after moving to 2.1pre4) 220463091784 shows the seller as (unknown).
If there are any other details that I can provide about it, please let me know.
Thanks again,
Valentin

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

Greetings,
Let me know if it happens again with the 2.1pre4 version!

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

started working again, after a reboot (had to replace the UPS). Very strange, as javaw was not running. Something must have gotten hung up somewhere. More proof that a reboot fixes almost anything on a Win32 x86 box.

Oddly enough though, my auctions are all showing up under the “My eBay” tab, instead of the “current” tab, as was the case last week. But show up they do, and I am back in business!

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

jbidwatcher no longer displays any of the auctions I have in “My Ebay”. I am running the 2.1 pre3 executable. It does the search, and a yellow bar comes up, it says “Found 89 watched items” but none of them display in the jbidwatcher interface. I am running it on XP, and I am in the US, bidding on US items. There are 3 errors.log files, I can email them on request.

Thanks,

Dave

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

• I’ll look into the tab/moving problem; any more information on how to replicate would be helpful…
  No idea, this seems to happen whenever I have lots of search results in a tab and am deleting uninteresting ones while moving/setting snipes on the others. Once in a while an item to be moved “refuses” to move.

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Hi Morgan. Thanks for the updates….

Don’t worry about My jbw, not using it right now.

I do notice more memory being consumed. pre2 and before would sit at around 100MB of private memory (xp sp3) for the javaw process. pre3 ends up at about 100MB after the initial startup/update cycle. after about 24 hours, it’s up to 140MB-ish but I haven’t had a longer program run since I started using pre3…

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Greetings,
@Richard Beels – You’ve got the right idea on #6; ebay.adult was the old setting, which most people clicked because it seemed the right thing to do. :) I try to discourage it in the 2.x series, because it’s a much more complex flow, so I made folks who wanted it enabled re-enable it, by changing the configuration name.

I think I know what’s breaking with search between sessions, but it’s going to take a little bit for me to fix it.

Fixed price ‘winners’ is another thing that I’m working on; it’s similar to auction winners, but since there can be multiple buyers, it makes it a little harder.

My JBidwatcher is really, really raw right now. If you sign up for it on the web site, it’ll send you an access key (although I have to bump up your access by hand afterwards), but you can also use your web site password. (I strongly recommend against making it the same as your eBay password.) I’m too busy trying to get JBidwatcher working to spend time on the web app, but I really want to get back to it as soon as possible.

Thanks for the pointer to listings that are failing the feedback parse; I’ll try and figure out what I can do…

Glad snipes are working for you! :)

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

Greetings,

1. Winning bids aren’t being recognized because JBidwatcher appears to be parsing the feedback number as part of the username. :(
2. Actual fixed-price (store, usually) items are not being recognized as bought because:
   1. The list of buyers page is in a different format and at a different URL than auction items
   2. There are multiple buyers, which is no longer true of auction entries.
3. I’m getting high bidder information for both 150355137354 (e***f ( 118 )) and 150355193849 (u***a ( 46 ))
4. Feedback is definitely having trouble for some users; it’s possible it has to do with the icons after the user’s account name. I’ll figure it out.
5. I’ll look into the tab/moving problem; any more information on how to replicate would be helpful…

Yeah, list formatting is a bit weird. ‘#’ prefixes a numbered list, and ‘##’ adds one indentation, etc…

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Greetings,
@buserror – I believe you have out-of-date overrides, so your date/time parsing is broken. Overrides carry over from version to version, so it’s very possible to carry them as you upgrade. I twittered the steps to clear them out in an @ message to you.

Fundamentally, if you open the Advanced tab, type ‘override’ into the key area, it should pull up any overrides you might have defined. Select each in turn, and click ‘Delete’ to remove that key. Then, once you’re done, save the changes, exit JBidwatcher and restart it.

The overrides should be gone, and auction updates afterwards should show up correctly.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

BVH, try updating false FP auctions, they should revert to normal with version 2.1pre3-998; if not, press Ctrl-e to open the snipe window despite of the menu item being inactive. There you can enter the value as on any other auction, the snipe will be stored and work as expected. The FP does not really matter, it only prevents you from using the context menu to snipe.

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Hello Morgan,

I just downloaded JBW 2.1pre3-998, and I am still unable to snipe because auctions still all show as (FP). I am using Windows. in the U.S. bidding on U.s. Auctions, Thanks!

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

JBidwatcher (2.0.1-825) – mac OSX 10,5,7.

i’m getting the same symptoms, although snipes do seem to be working properly as i won a ‘FP’ auction with a snipe only yesterday.

i’m also getting a symptom that someone else mentioned above, whereby some [but not all auctions] are showing their price as $1. i’m in UK so my listings are in £s anyway.

also, all my sellers are listed as ‘(unknown)’ and although snipes are working, the interface is not indicating that i have wone the auction ie. they are not turning blue.

all of these issues [apart from the incorrect bid amounts of $1] are not really stopping jbidwatcher from winning me snipes. they’re more just annoyances, but i thought i might as well flag them up anyway.

Topic: 2.1pre3-998 "My Jbidwatcher"

Jbidwatcher can login with the password I’ve chosen, but not with the key I got via mail.

Topic: 2.1pre3-998 "My Jbidwatcher"

Hello,

I tried the new “My Jbidwatcher” feature and found 2 issues:

1) It seems that the tab for the upload is hardcoded to “current”.

2) Login succeeds, but when I close and reopen the configuration dialogue, the user name and password show up only briefly and disappear after that, so the fields are emptied and the data has to be typed in again.

Regards, and thank you for the otherwise excellent program, Christoph

Topic: Most auctions appear as FP

Switched over to 998 2 minutes before a snipe, had to see if it worked… :-O It did, just fine… :-)

Things I’ve noticed, right off the bat:

1. I ran into the deleting problem The Gaffer mentions when I was cleaning some old auctions out. What I did: first I ran some massive updates on completed auctions that had
unknown" high bidders and were showing as false FPs. v998 fixed these all up nicely. I then had a bunch of auctions that had 0 bids on them and since I don’t care to save those, I Shift-click selected them and did a right-click | delete (just hitting the delete key didn’t work). Some of the selected items deleted, but not all. Some of the remaining auctions stayed selected, some didn’t and the sorting of the remaining items all changed. Hmm, that’s weird I said to myself, and did another block-select and delete. jbw deleted more but not all. The third time worked. One thing that I noticed the 2 different times I tried this was that the list of items in the tab changed from more than a screen-ful to less than a screenful and there was artifacting of old auctions in what should now be whitespace (I hope that makes sense). Clicking a column to res-sort cleared up the artifacts. The error log has the normal “Deleting 26 entries” entry. Don’t know if the count matches what was actually deleted. I’ll try it again and do some checking….

2. I did see one instance of an auction repeated in pre2. I forgot all about it until reading it in the thread here. I deleted the dupe and the remaining now non-dupe was there after a restart.

3. I only have one search enabled – the get my ebay. I do all my searching with firefox and then watch the items i’m interested in and let jbw grab them for sniping. With v998, I do see an error in the logs:

Sat Aug 01 19:25:04 EDT 2009: JBidwatcher 2.1pre3-998
Sat Aug 01 19:25:04 EDT 2009: Sun Microsystems Inc. Java, version 1.6.0_13 on Windows XP
Sat Aug 01 19:25:05 EDT 2009: Loaded the appropriate driver.
Sat Aug 01 19:25:05 EDT 2009: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:05 EDT 2009: Auction information database already exists.
Sat Aug 01 19:25:05 EDT 2009: Closed connection
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: Database shut down normally
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: Loaded the appropriate driver.
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: Closed connection
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: Database shut down normally
Sat Aug 01 19:25:06 EDT 2009: JBW: Failed to load saved searches, file exists but can't be loaded!
  XML Parse Exception during parsing of the XML definition at line 1:
  Syntax error while parsing a tag name
  com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLParseException:
  XML Parse Exception during parsing of the XML definition at line 1:
  Syntax error while parsing a tag name
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.syntaxError(XMLElement.java:1355)
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.scanTagName(XMLElement.java:1070)
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseCharArray(XMLElement.java:641)
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseCharArray(XMLElement.java:625)
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseFromReader(XMLElement.java:546)
	at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseFromReader(XMLElement.java:511)
	at com.jbidwatcher.search.SearchManager.loadSearches(SearchManager.java:164)
	at com.jbidwatcher.app.JBidWatch.main(JBidWatch.java:420)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.run(Boot.java:306)
	at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.main(Boot.java:159)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:07 EDT 2009: Scripting is not enabled.
Sat Aug 01 19:25:07 EDT 2009: Loaded the appropriate driver.
Sat Aug 01 19:25:07 EDT 2009: Connected to database jbdb (JBidwatcher DataBase)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:07 EDT 2009: Loading listings from the database (116/493/494 entries, 494/497 auctions)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:07 EDT 2009: Done with the initial load (got 116 active entries)
Sat Aug 01 19:25:08 EDT 2009: Auction Entries loaded
Sat Aug 01 19:25:08 EDT 2009: Completed loader spun off

My searches.xml was originally (with pre2 and before I ran pre3 for the first time) either:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE auctions SYSTEM "http://www.jbidwatcher.com/searches.dtd">
<searches>
  <search id="1" type="My Items">
    <name>My eBay</name>
    <search>

</search>
    <period>1</period>
    <server>ebay</server>
    <currency>0</currency>
    <last>1248498974267</last>
<enabled />
    <category>current</category>
</search>
<search type="Seller" id="1233195302298">
    <name>My Selling Items</name>
    <search>beelsr</search>
    <period>1</period>
    <server>ebay</server>
<currency>
</currency>
    <last>0</last>
    <category>selling</category>
</search>
</searches>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE auctions SYSTEM "http://www.jbidwatcher.com/searches.dtd">
<searches>
  <search id="1" type="My Items">
    <name>My eBay</name>
    <search>

</search>
    <period>1</period>
    <server>ebay</server>
    <currency>0</currency>
    <last>1248498974267</last>
<enabled />
    <category>current</category>
</search>
</searches>

Sorry, I can’t remember if I had deleted the seller search or not, I’m pretty sure I already did.

It was changed by pre3 to (after its first run) to:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE auctions SYSTEM "http://www.jbidwatcher.com/searches.dtd">
<searches>
  <search id="1" type="My Items">
    <name>My eBay</name>
    <search></search>
    <period>-1</period>
    <server>ebay</server>
    <currency>

</currency>
    <last>0</last>
    <category>My eBay</category>
</search>
</searches>

i went to the search window, it showed as disabled (it wasn’t with pre2) and I couldn’t enable it with the enable button I hit the edit button and could enable it for every hour and change the destination tab back to current. Will report later on how it works. A manually fired get my ebay seemed to work fine, with no errors in the log (other than the usual “Bad input tag (ignoring): button id=”EditButton_xxxx…." ones I seem to always get with debug loggin turned on)…

The searches.xml is now:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE auctions SYSTEM "http://www.jbidwatcher.com/searches.dtd">
<searches>
  <search id="1" type="My Items">
    <name>My eBay</name>
    <search></search>
    <period>1</period>
    <server>ebay</server>
    <currency>0</currency>
    <last>1249176494058</last>
    <enabled/>
    <category>current</category>

</search>
</searches>

3. High bidder is being kind of correctly reported. The feedback # is trailing my name – e.g., “beelsr (581)” – and for auctions I’ve won, this is this is causing the highlight to be red and not blue. It also sorts differently from old auctions where the high bidder was identified as just the name.

4. Most BIN auctions I’ve won don’t report the high bidder. Looking at the actual page, there’s no second page with bidder history. There is the text: “Congrats beelsr! You bought this item.” in the top frame that you could search on. It does look like parsing gets hammered because current shows as “null (FP)” and price as “null”. Some others don’t recognize me winning but do report the prices correctly. I can supply screen prints and or the html files returned or whatever you want to debug if you need it. Items: 300323576861(unknown high, correct price), 300302543467 (unknown high, null (5) price), 200366094980 & 200366094980 (“—” high, null (FP) price).

5. I clicked on the “Enabled My JBidWatcher” checkbox and it turned the input fields from grey to white but the box didn’t check. I didn’t put in a name/pw or anything (don’t have one) and it’s perpetually. Didn’t find anything in the config. Just FYI….

6. In the config, what is the difference between the ebay.adult and ebay.mature attrs? .adult is true and .mature is false. I do NOT have the “I plan to view adult….” checked in the configure dialog (but most likely did at some time in the past). I assume you changed the attribute name from adult to mature but the adult didn’t get cleaned up during the conversion.

7. Related to #4, some BINs that are still active have parsing error for the bidder: “Return policy details:” (360169355070, 360174312318; same seller), “prepays item bid….” (300300092550).

8. Snipes & buys are working just fine. Haven’t multi-sniped yet. Had one yesterday but I lost both… :-(

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

1. Successful snipe not recognized

Auction 130321281436 is dark red and has been put wrongly into the tab for lost auctions. My name shows up as the high bidder, but Jbidwatcher obviously does not recognize me.

In fact, it seems that I am in almost no case recognized as the high bidder as some other auctions today have shown.

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

I am not experiencing a memory leak as of now. Perhaps it is growing slowly, but I should have noticed it with 512 MiB of RAM. By the way, doesn’t Java try to prevent that condition by itsself?

Topic: Feedback 2.1pre3-998

One more thing:

Sometimes an auction cannot be moved to another tab any more.

The following conditions seem to be fulfilled:

• A restart of the program always helps, after that everything is normal again.
• It is always only one item (per tab?) affected.