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Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
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Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:09 pm Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
But I am finding some of my searches are returning a lot more results which I think is more an eBay issue than Auctionsieve as eBay seem to present a lot more overseas results now for some reason.
I ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:53 pm Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
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 ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2025 8:47 am Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
Good news - my hotspot works OK at the moment, before the 1000s of general public have arrived.
Email sent! |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 10:50 am Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
Just acknowledging I've seen this Nev - I will do so when I can but currently I'm packing to go to a music festival where there will be near-zero mobile signal, so it might take me until next week to ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 8:27 pm Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
Do you run more than one sieve at a time? (ie retrieve items for multiple sieves at the same time)
Normally yes, I'd open all my sieves at once (Sieves, Open All) and I have them set to auto start on ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:11 am Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
Bad news unfortunately Nev. It does something now - but it's not working properly or usably.
Yes it does get some results - but it's very easy to trigger ebay's protection - even launching one siev ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 8:51 am Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
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 ... |
Topic: Ebay URL hacking |
wickmesh
Replies: 0
Views: 191
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 6:54 am Subject: Ebay URL hacking |
Given the [url=http://auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=778]unfortunate current problem with AS getting no results, hacking ebay search URLs to search for what you want is a (very poor) workarou ... |
Topic: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
wickmesh
Replies: 22
Views: 1002
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 6:17 am Subject: AS not getting auctions - latest eBay changes... |
Came here to say this... but it's already been said.
The ens**tification of ebay continues!
My thought is to tie into ebay's API (as was the intention many years ago) instead of scraping html pa ... |
Topic: Has anyone experience prolonged delays with searches? |
wickmesh
Replies: 2
Views: 16174
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 11:12 am Subject: Has anyone experience prolonged delays with searches? |
I can't see how to reply to the poll - but yes, me too.
Multiple possible reasons in my opinion:
* The [url=http://auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3424#3424]previously reported (and stil ... |
Topic: Watchlist unfortunately not updating |
wickmesh
Replies: 0
Views: 1241
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 9:48 am Subject: Watchlist unfortunately not updating |
Hi Nev,
Unfortunately ebay seem to have changed something and the watchlist is no longer updating for me.
Items are added from sieves to the watchlist OK but retain only the information loaded f ... |
Topic: Zero results "ebay is returning error pages..." |
wickmesh
Replies: 4
Views: 17900
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:20 am Subject: Zero results "ebay is returning error pages..." |
Cheers Nev, hope you and your family are well.
While you are at it it's worth you looking at your update mechanism, as [url=http://www.auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=772l]many people are r ... |
Topic: Zero results "ebay is returning error pages..." |
wickmesh
Replies: 4
Views: 17900
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:48 am Subject: Zero results "ebay is returning error pages..." |
As the subject - unfortunately no results returned at all this morning, and every sieve returns the error message "ebay is returning error pages or pages I cannot interpret, for Search [my search stri ... |
Topic: How the heck do I get version 3.2 ???? |
wickmesh
Replies: 9
Views: 828944
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:26 pm Subject: How the heck do I get version 3.2 ???? |
From my Auctionsieve 3.20 install
Hi, tried this (thanks btw) but it didn't work for me. You meant right click the Auctionsieve app and then put the files into the Contents/Java/ folder right ... |
Topic: Pricing limits ignored |
wickmesh
Replies: 1
Views: 12439
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Forum: AuctionSieve chat Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:44 am Subject: Pricing limits ignored |
Thankfully this is looking like an ebay glitch.
Not completely OK: still a few expensive items appearing here and there in random sieves - and noticably more [url=http://www.auctionsieve.com/forums ... |
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