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MAX · Active contributor Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Hi all

I don't think this is me breaking it, but here's some strange stuff I'm seeing.

Searching; (title and description search is on. Site is UK)

The search options are different between Ebay and AS, AS has 3 ebay 4, I'm using what I think is the closest match for comparison.

1.
I'm looking for a Coleman multi fuel lamp or lantern, so I set up a sieve for;

wickmesh · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject:

I noticed similar behavior - in general getting less results than from ebay directly, but occasionally more! It felt like ebay had killed the advanced search functions (the commas and brackets functionality), which as most of my sieves use such would have been a real killer for me.

I checked the ebay help pages but everything I was doing seemed correct. And then I found that if I went back later, the results came back. I think either ebay were tweaking something at the time I noticed, or they have a "feature" whereby when the server load gets high, you get less results.

Thank goodness for the ability to repeatedly search using Auctionsieve, and "Ignore auctions already seen"...

Andrew

Edit - also on ebay.co.uk

nev · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:33 pm Post subject:

Hi Max

Thanks for the post. I've been slack in responding - I usually only get to work in small chunks at night time and this post has been too daunting to tackle. All good stuff though! So don't let me discourage you.

Ok, here we go

1. Just tried out out these searches and they appear to bring back the same counts in AS and ebay. There have been some changes to ebay (and fixes in AS) since you posted this, so maybe that's cleared up the problem.

2. Rightio

3. When looking at the Watchlist, the bottom panel shows price history - the idea being that you can compare what's in your watchlist with what's in your price history.

4. There were some bugs in the watchlist/price history code that I fixed but I suspect there's still some flakiness in there - generally around getting that final retrieve of details before AS is satisfied... and if the item is no longer valid it may get stuck in limbo.

5. If you select File->New Sieve..., the dialog has an option to "Copy Catch and Trash words from other Sieve", but once created, no, there's now way to copy them. A workaround is to hand edit the files.

6. NA

7. Fair enough

8. It does check against BIN - eg search "coleman" (lamp,lantern) with min of 80 max of 90 currently returns 34 results in ebay and AS, 1 with a normal price, the rest all BINs.

9. Maybe.... really need some stats on user screen res - important for the extra search dialog - still a heck of a lot of people running 1024x768 Sad

At least there are very few running 800x600 now!

Sorry about the crashes. Sad

Backup info is in that other thread
http://www.auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=462&highlight=