Topic: JBidwatcher Help / WARNING to all non USA bidders using JBidWatcher

Hoddy,

Also in the UK and had similar problems, last time with non delivery etc.
I recall reading a posting previously from a German user (?) all trying to get eBay / PayPal to take responsibility when we bid through the ebay.com rather than our local site.
So much for a global market place……….

I currently am a convert to Gixen for sniping, in the set up options are the ability to direct the snipes to ebay.co.uk and fortunately I have not had a reason to complain to eBay / PayPal over any auctions won and it’s a reliable sniper. So far………

I guess it’s an uphill struggle to keep an eye out for ebay and their bidding page changes.
It’s hard enough for Morgan to keep on top of changes on just ebay.com and still add to the JBW application and develop the MyJBidwatcher interface.
As well as keeping down a day job (hopefully), Wife & young family, a life away from computers. And only then there is a hobby called JBidwatcher.

Alan.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Most auctions appear as FP

Morgan,

Had sometime to play inbetween snipes…

As a workaround for the extended periods of disc activity I have, where there is a risk of missing a snipe because the system is busy. For auctions I REALY want to win I use a cutdown set of files only containing only a few items I’m sniping on in the near future.

I copied & pasted a old set of files last used with JBidwatcher-2.0.1 into the JBW Folder.
I ran up JBW 2.1pre3-998 and it wiped the searches xml as expected,
it DID create the new ‘My ebay’ tab.
I ran get my ebay items, nothing in the newly created tab.
BUT it did load them into the ‘current’ tab.

No duplicated auctions,
No bold text in the shipping column
So it’s not all broken !

In the ‘added value’ category.
A thought to help users with overworked under performing systems, could JBW pause updating auctions and any other none critical actions say 5 or 10min before a snipe,to give the machine a chance to get back ‘upto speed’ before the 2min bidding form request and I guess the final ebay / JBW time delta check. (Could this be the cause of the wildly differing timing errors other users have reported? I have missed snipes with pre JBidwatcher-2.0.1 releases but not recently. And if I have been around, the system is obviously struggling with intesive HDD activity, which nobody else has commented on?)

Tried to set up ‘My JBidwatcher’ I’m unable to check the ‘enable my Jbidwatcher’ box.
A mouse hover highlights the box, but mouse click or spacebar doesn’t modify the box.
Also I to have noted the save action in the configuration manager does not also close the window.

Regards Alan.
(ebay.co.uk JBW 2.1pre3-998, Win XP-Pro sp3)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Most auctions appear as FP

buserror,

from your screen capture I guess you are using the gui?

I entered the auction No# in JBW 2.1pre3-998 ui and it listed fine with the correct end date.

I’ll get myself registered to use ‘My JBidwatcher’ and see how it works……

Regards Alan.
(ebay.co.uk JBW 2.1pre3-998, Win XP-Pro sp3)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Most auctions appear as FP

Hi Morgan,

A reply from THE MAN ! Thank’s.
I’m a developers nightmare…….
I chop and change between releases as (I belive) some are beter at specific tasks than others.
ie: In current use !

JBidwatcher-2.0beta11 consistantly recovered ‘my watching’ listings. (often the full 200 items limit)
But on my already overstressed system would after 1 or 2 days of running, result in extended periods of HDD access resulting in ‘program not responding’ from Windows, missed snipes because the system is busy.
BUT JBW is not crashed. If you do an action but it doesn’t respond, don’t repeatedly ‘click away’. Leave, walk away, get a coffee, maybe a second or third. IT WILL dig it’s self out of the hole.

JBidwatcher-2.0.1 is good for leaving for 2 or 3 days unattended, Sniping & running automated searches. Also seen periods of extended disk access, only perhaps in blocks of 20 – 30Sec but overall program is more responsive.
No sync with ‘My Ebay’
Doesn’t read me as won auctions.
But to me, I belive it’s important to get a valid snipe in on time.
I don’t mind checking the Ebay site to see if I have to make any payments :-)

JBidwatcher-2.1pre2, good to leave running.
Did sync with ‘My Ebay’ put them in the new tab etc. (until I ran pre3 and lost my customised searches.)
Only (semi-)real issue was FP, but that has the cntrl e workaround.

JBidwatcher-2.1pre3 is so nearly there.
Just for me I use automated searches a lot. (too many hobbies and interests…….)
The issue with overwriting the searches.xml file makes it not a good release to use.
No Sync with My Ebay. There is only one entry in the auction search manager, and it’s ‘my ebay’ but doesn’t load anything?
(If I use an old searches.xml file back in JBidwatcher-2.1pre2 custom searches are back & OK but there’s no sync with ‘my ebay.’

Has ebay known to have broken it again, or does JBW handle the process differently between the latest release and a xml created by (I guess) JBidwatcher-2.0beta11
and not work in JBidwatcher-2.1pre2 ?)

FINALLY, the answers you care about !

Multiple entries are within UI
It’s there in both the pre2 & pre3 releases.
OK in JBidwatcher-2.0.1

RE:Shipping amount in Bold.
The entry was parsed by JBW, no manual intervention.
One tab of 132 items has 43 highlighted shipping entries. None were manualy added.

I shouldn’t spend too much time if it’s just my report of delete problems.

I’m watching a lot of items from the results of my automated searches. I then ‘weed out’ almost all search results to leave the few I will actually watch in JBW……….
I normally have to delete in blocks of 50 – 75 items so JBW is not ‘busy’ for too long.
When I ran pre3 I tried to delete a group of approx 180 items.

Another instance tried to delete 3 listings, One deleted cleanly, the other two remained highlighted in the tab
They did delete across a restart, so not a great problem.

JBidwatcher-2.1pre3
JBW is a snipper program. It still Snipes, and if you bid enough you win……

Thank’s to Morgan It does the one important thing.
Everything else, are added value extra’s.
Thank’s for your time & find a gratitude payment.
Alan.
(ebay.co.uk JBW 2.1pre3-998, Win XP-Pro sp3)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Most auctions appear as FP

Hi All,
Not sure if this is release wide or just my install.

Just a quick reminder, Good house keeping = make regular backups of important folders……..

Reoccurrance of multiple entries of auctions. (Both JBidwatcher-2.1pre2 and 2.1pre3) One auction No# is listed four time in a row.

I don’t think JBidwatcher-2.1pre3 sync’s with ‘My Ebay’
JBidwatcher-2.1pre2 release was OK.

Still have a delete problem. I tried to do a little spring cleaning and delete 180 odd auctions in one go.
The initial delete dialogue box is now correctly sized. The confirmation box is OK. But still doesn’t delete highlighted auctions. It just leaves them highligted in the tab.
I (think) it does remove them on restart as in the previous release.

But reluctant to use the new pre-release for a second reason.

I have perhaps 15 – 20 searches set up in JBW. Some text, some url.
Some autorun and others manually started.
On startup of the new release, it wipes the contents of the searches.xml file……..
(explorer now reports it to be 1k in size, while the working file was 26K)

(Unusually) for me I have a backup of the JBW folder from last month :-0

On the positive side.
Not sniped yet, but FP auctions updating to correct status.

Seller id column parsed correctly.

In the HighBidder Column, I still have ‘unknown bidders’ or Bidder 2 or 3 but it does recognises my ebay id on the only auction I have made a ‘token’ bid on, (BUT no Blue highlighted text & tick in the Status Column?)

Anybody know the significance of the shipping amount shown in bold?
(Auction No# in bold means you have made a comment against the auction.)

The configuration window in the new releases have some intriguing options for the future :-)
Any threads on the uses for the ‘My JBidwatcher’ tab?

Regards Alan.
(ebay.co.uk JBW 2.1pre3-998, Win XP-Pro sp3)