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That's great to know! Thanks!

PS I'm actually doing some extensive work on AuctionSieve - nothing to announce just yet....

Ok, new release is out that fixes this

I've just put out a non-beta release.
It's the same as the last beta, so this is just to get it into the hands of those that don't use betas.

I have an idea about slowing down retrieval that I can ...

Run AuctionSieve, then select menu Tools->Check for beta updates

Thanks Andrew.

I've had a look. Yes, it's the dreaded browser checking in this case, not just weird new eBay page formatting.

I've released a new beta which has a list of 5 cookies that it rotat ...

All good. Thanks!

There may also be some eBay page changes.
I made some fixes along those lines.

Can you run a sieve and then when it fails, go to this folder:
On a mac: Library/Application Support/AuctionSieve/tm ...

Do you run more than one sieve at a time? (ie retrieve items for multiple sieves at the same time)

Ok, new beta is out!
Let me know if it fixes things.

I ended up replicating all the various cookies that get sent from a real browser when communicating with eBay and narrowed it down to a few tha ...

Hi everyone,

I'm still looking into this.

An interesting thing is that regular eBay users are also encountering this - ie they're just using eBay in their browser and sometimes get these "checki ...

AS currently doesn't get *any* results.

After investigating, it appears eBay are doing some sort of browser check.
ie one of those things where you go to a website and you get a page that says som ...

Hi Chris,

One thing to consider - different searches may end up with similar results and ActionSieve consolidates those together.

Eg
Search 1 results in item 7, item 88, item 55, etc
Search 2 ...

Yes - I'm alive!

Also, I just pushed out a new update to fix problems with New Today sieves.

This was a tricky one!

eBay have done all sorts of sneaky things to ensure programs can't figure o ...

Ok, managed to fix that.
Thanks for reporting.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update mechanism should now be working properly.