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1. Support Staff 31 Posted by cyberfox on 24 Sep, 2012 09:50 AM

   

   Greetings,
   Follow-up, I have it happening for a PayPal enabled non-USD auction. They
   messed with the order of the fields again. :-(

   I can find a fix tomorrow (it's 2:50am and I have to be at work tomorrow
   morning) but it's going to take a new release to get working for everyone.
    I'll throw a beta link on this ticket when it is ready, and that should be
   a lot faster than it gets to general availability.

   -- Morgan Schweers, Cyber**FOX**!

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2. 32 Posted by Paddy McKee on 24 Sep, 2012 11:13 AM

   

   Morgan,

   Glad to hear you are a "working man".
   Sorry to hear that you and your family have been ill.
   Sane users expect health,family,job,sleep and other things to take priority.

   And because I am selfish, I know that people code better if they get enough sleep.

   Cheers.

   (Anyone who thinks I just went off-topic needs to think about it for longer.)

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3. 33 Posted by rainer on 20 Oct, 2012 11:45 AM

   

   you can snipe, if you click on the hammer icon...

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4. 34 Posted by Morgan Schweers on 26 Oct, 2012 06:44 AM

   

   Greetings,
   I have a brief fix that I know has other bugs (most notably the bid count is massively wrong):

   Mac OS X

   Windows

   Linux

   It's a pre-release, so it'll warn that it's 'out of date', because the current stable version is a different version number. Ignore that for now.

   It's really important that you let me know of any oddities in behavior that you see out of this pre-release version. Thank you!

   -- Morgan

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5. 35 Posted by Yeti88 on 26 Oct, 2012 09:59 AM

   

   Getting worse, even when using 2.5.3pre1 (eBay.de, Win XP, Java 7 Update 9). Used to be able to at least add auctions that have PayPal as payment method. Now even that doesn't always work.

   I can and got used to living with the (FP) and various other problems, but they were mainly cosmetic. Not being able to add new auctions is a show-stopper to me unfortunately. Please, Morgan, keep up the good work and fix this.

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6. Support Staff 36 Posted by cyberfox on 26 Oct, 2012 02:47 PM

   

   Greetings,
   @Yeti88 - I need item numbers. Please give a few, preferably ending one or
   more days away, that are having problems.

   Thank you.

   -- Morgan

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7. 37 Posted by mutron3k on 27 Oct, 2012 05:06 AM

   

   Here's an item 6 days out that doesn't work for me on 2.5.2: 290798937400

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8. 38 Posted by Yeti88 on 27 Oct, 2012 02:18 PM

   

   @Morgan: 150933673137 for example

   error log shows:
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:30 CEST 2012: Parsing URL http://www.ebay.de/itm/150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:30 CEST 2012: Parsing URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:30 CEST 2012: Parsing URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:31 CEST 2012: Redirecting from: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:31 CEST 2012: Redirecting to: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Error?item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:31 CEST 2012: Parsing URL http://www.ebay.com/itm/Error?item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:32 CEST 2012: Item not found: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150933673137
   Sat Oct 27 16:12:32 CEST 2012: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.

   Like I mentioned before not a single non PayPal auction works with the current version. Yesterday even some auctions with PayPal didn't work, strangely enough some of the same seller did and some didn't. Couldn't make out a difference. Will keep you posted. Thanks for looking into that problem!

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9. 39 Posted by Yeti88 on 27 Oct, 2012 03:09 PM

   

   Here's one with PayPal that won't work: 350630167240. Most of this seller's other auctions I can add to JBidwatcher with no problem at all. Up until a couple days ago I never experienced any problems with this particular seller. Very strange...

   Hang on...

   Tried some of this seller's other auctions as I was typing the above, now I can't even get any of the many auctions that worked before to show up in JBidwatcher. :-(

   Things are getting worse and worse...

   BTW: Not only can't I add these auctions to JBidwatcher I'm also being logged out from eBay, at least the user name in the upper right hand corner gets striked through. Hope that helps...

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10. 40 Posted by mutron3k on 28 Oct, 2012 05:04 AM

    

    The one I posted yesterday started to work today, along with 5 others that were "FP" no image, something not right in seller column.

    Not sure why it would "fix itself" some hours later.

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11. Support Staff 41 Posted by cyberfox on 29 Oct, 2012 04:48 AM

    

    Greetings,
    @mutron3k - Because eBay operates on a 'rolling deploy' basis; they deploy
    10% of machines with a new version, see how they behave, how folks use
    them, if it affects purchasing, etc., and then roll out to 25%, 50%, 75%,
    and 90% over the rest of the week. At least they did something similar to
    that a bunch of years ago.

    So a few hours prior, you may have gotten a 10% server with a new version,
    new pages, etc., and then after a cookie refresh, or something similar, you
    got onto a set of servers (the 90% that hadn't been deployed to yet) that
    were showing the slightly older pages.

    I'm working on fixing a few parsing problems, but my existing code is so
    dense with 12 years of eBay changes that I'm very near to throwing out the
    auction parsing code, putting out a version that works for all the auctions
    I can straightforwardly test, and have folks report errors with odd listing
    types to me so I can fix them.

    There's code in there for eBay formats that almost certainly never happen
    anymore, several technology revisions ago, and unfortunately it's hard to
    know which ones are which. Thus my idea of starting fresh...

    We'll see...

    -- Morgan

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12. 42 Posted by Yeti88 on 29 Oct, 2012 09:32 AM

    

    Hi Morgan,

    I also do believe a fresh start is the best you can do given the many patches and fixes to make older eBay changes work. Happy to hear that you're working on a new version! Will of course help to identify bugs as they come along...

    Good luck and let's get JBidwatcher working again! Maybe even better than before. ;-)

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13. Support Staff 43 Posted by cyberfox on 11 Nov, 2012 10:55 AM

    

    Greetings,
    This isn't an 'official' release, it's a pre-release to see if it correctly fixes the problem with eBay parsing...

    Mac

    Windows (standalone, not an installer so save the executable someplace)

    Linux

    I haven't tested this extensively, except to determine that it fixes some parsing problems, and the startup problems on Oracle Java.

    Please let me know if you run into any issues! This is doubly important, because I want to shift to releasing this as soon as possible, but I need positive or negative feedback quickly!

    Thanks muchly, and best of luck with your auctions!

    -- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

    p.s. There's a still-outstanding problem with non-paypal auctions on non-US sites not showing up; I've determined what's wrong, but haven't written up a fix for it yet.

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14. 44 Posted by maxxbass on 12 Nov, 2012 02:39 AM

    

    Hi Morgan,

    first test on mac OS 10.6.8/Java 1.6.0-35:
    program is starting, getting sign-in cookie and then gets stuck while trying to update the first auction. Continuous result in errors log:

    Mon Nov 12 03:26:07 CET 2012: Parsing URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370680821495
    Mon Nov 12 03:26:07 CET 2012: Parsing URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370680821495
    Mon Nov 12 03:26:08 CET 2012: Serious error, consider dying.
    org/jsoup/Jsoup

    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.SpecificAuction.preParseAuction(SpecificAuction.java:43)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.doParse(AuctionServer.java:277)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.loadAuction(AuctionServer.java:222)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.reload(AuctionServer.java:191)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionEntry.update(AuctionEntry.java:901)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.Auctions.doUpdate(Auctions.java:92)
    at com.jbidwatcher.ui.AuctionsManager.updateList(AuctionsManager.java:131)
    at com.jbidwatcher.ui.AuctionsManager.check(AuctionsManager.java:101)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.TimerHandler.run(TimerHandler.java:62)
    

    btw., i'd be more then grateful if you'd find time to fix the non-paypal bug, i can live pretty well with the FP thing, but this one is killing me ;-)

    and: thanks for the bunch of time and effort you must have put into this so far !
    cheers
    maxx

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15. 45 Posted by xanaxl on 12 Nov, 2012 09:09 AM

    

    Hi Morgan,

    so good to hear your focussed on it!

    I did run the new pre under
    W7/64
    Java 6.0.301.5
    (thats the version of java.exe. If any other versionnumber is needeed, lezt me know. Noob Ralf talking ;-))

    I had the same issues than with the last stable version.. Todays log is attached.

    It did not import 34 of 35 my ebay items. It did import this one, 300812114165, and it imported it not as FP but regular as it should do, even with propper bidcount.

    Dear Morgan, I do hope I have been a tiny bit helpful and wish you all the luck in the world.

    all the best
    Ralf

    • jbid_log_11-12-2012.txt 49.2 KB
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16. 46 Posted by maxxbass on 18 Nov, 2012 12:24 AM

    

    Hi Morgan,

    as someone said in the forum that V.2.5.0 is still working for him: would you mind to provide a link to the old version just for testing reasons and maybe as a possible workaround ?

    TiA
    maxx

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17. 47 Posted by Tango on 25 Nov, 2012 07:21 PM

    

    Workign great here! (pre2, and -hidden but apparently the same- pre3 too)

    Windows 7
    Java Version 6 Update 35

    Using ebay.es working good. Same article NOT working with "normal" jbidwatcher download.

    First, installed "normal" version, and then, executed 2.5.3 pre2.

    The app readed the installed normal version configuration, and got working well.

    Great!

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18. Support Staff 48 Posted by cyberfox on 26 Nov, 2012 07:43 AM

    

    Greetings,
    2.5.3pre3 is not _quite_ the same as 2.5.2. I removed the concept of a
    'backup server' entirely, and now item loading, bidding, etc., all happens
    on either ebay.com or ebay.co.uk, chosen by a checkbox in the eBay
    configuration in JBidwatcher's configuration manger. It defaults to
    ebay.com if your locale is US, Canada, or not given. Everybody else
    defaults to ebay.co.uk. I do this because eBay has an unpleasant habit of
    hiding items (that are perfectly valid, but don't accept PayPal payments)
    from the ebay.com (US) site. I used to detect this on ebay.com and fail
    over to use ebay.co.uk only in the circumstances where it was necessary,
    but eBay turned off my ability to detect it, so now you have to choose (or
    let JBidwatcher choose) via which of those two servers to bid/get
    items/etc...

    (To be clear, JBidwatcher still supports the same number of sites as it
    used to, and in fact virtually nothing external has changed. All items
    are, as always, handled by bidding on one of the main sites which contain
    all items for all sites.)

    I've tweaked a few more things, nothing major, and will be trying to push
    an 'unstable' build soon, as that might get more attention than the
    occasional pre-releases I've been pushing up here.

    -- Morgan Schweers, Cyber**FOX**!

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19. 49 Posted by Vladimir on 30 Nov, 2012 12:26 PM

    

    The version 2.5.3 which you released two days ago still didnt fix the problem of not being able to add some non-paypal auctions like this one for example:

    http://www.ebay.de/itm/370700625018

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20. 50 Posted by BuysSr on 27 Nov, 2014 10:09 PM

    

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