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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.

Ok, new release is out.

Also managed to figure out the problem on my server, so updates should work properly!

Thanks for reporting.
Other people have also emailed.
I'll have some time this weekend to look into this.