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jjforb · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:57 pm Post subject: auctionSieve 2.5.6.1 Mac

After using the new beta for a while I am seeing one problem. Some auctions are appearing with the price in parentheses which I think should indicate a buy it now price, but it is a standard auction. An example of this is: http://www.ebay.com/itm/370541891869?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649#ht_1172wt_990
Thank you.

nev · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject:

New 2.5.6.2 beta is out with a fix!

memorezguy · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270831977524+

This auction shows up with "unknown" for the pricing information using 2.5.6.2 - a rare occurrence now but I thought I'd report it.

wickmesh · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:31 am Post subject:

Hi Nev,

2.5.6.2 was good for a while, but there's another problem just surfacing...

Some auctions now come up in the sieves with the price as (£) with no digits, and the time remaining is incorrect (e.g. 9989d 23h 15m or Ended). Examples are:

370550635688
290619962667
170712623734
120761226323
110727242327
120761227264
110727248843
120761320378
110727262666
220874732523
110727362428
120761373368
120761338036
110727446612
120761317567
...and many more.

As before if I add them to my watch list the time left and price corrects themselves - but the price is shown as GBP 9.99 (£) - the (£) shouldn't be there.

I've also noticed AS doesn't cope with the new longer item titles, they get truncated which means trash words/catch words can't work on the bit of the title that has been cut off.
Examples are:

190588484980 ("B" replaced by "...")
110758600262 ("VERY WITH BOEING 747 SCA" replaced by "...")
250910882831 (":72 von Tamiya" replaced by "...")
250910929832 ("elware) 1:72 von Tamiya" replaced by "...")
250910930365 ("e) 1:72 von Tamiya" replaced by "...")
320775749700 ("ORT, Item No:87KFB60S" replaced by "...")
...and again there are many more.

Best Regards
Andrew

jjforb · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject: AuctionSieve 2.5.6.2 Mac

I am seeing the same some auctions have blank for price some ($) and lots with unknown in the time left field. Why do they keep changing so often? Thank you.

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:45 am Post subject:

I just added a new sieve, about 1/3rd of the results are affected by the (£) problem. Crying or Very sad

wickmesh · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:25 am Post subject:

Unfortunately more issues this morning, back to some listings in the sieves with completely blank price fields. Examples are:

400248658293
270837844985
250914988909
250914974162
330629219606
180741824550
120797115075

Kind Regards
Andrew

nev · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:09 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reports guys.
I just got back from a week's holiday - will look at it tonight.

memorezguy · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

If you need test sieves, let me know. I'm happy to test your fix effort on this one.

The latest problem appears to be with auctions that have JUST ended (usually less than 5 minutes before the sieve is run). Perhaps there's a data sync issue with eBay? Such just ended auctions are producing ($) for the pricing data. Also I'm still seeing "Unknown" for the time left (maybe 3-5 times out of a 1,000 auctions) - on auctions that have NOT ended btw.

wickmesh · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:41 am Post subject:

Hope you had a good break Nev, sorry you had all this to come back to!

nev · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:37 pm Post subject:

New beta 2.5.6.3 is out!

wickmesh · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:05 pm Post subject:

Hi Nev,

Thank You for 2.5.6.3: the number of incorrectly reported listings seems to be much lower, and I've not seen a single "..." on the end of a truncated auction title, so catch words work properly again.

However I feel really bad - after all your efforts I don't like to report this, but it seems 2.5.6.3 doesn't solve all the problems...

nev · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:09 pm Post subject:

Hi Andrew,

So, are all these problems in the Watchlist?
Or are there still some problems with search results?
I haven't looked at the Watchlist code at all so it's very likely to have problems.

Nev

wickmesh · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

Hi Nev,

I'd say the remaining problems are split between the Sieves (search results) and the Watchlist. If I select items in the Sieve that have bad reported data, and then add them to the Watchlist, this sorts out many (but not all) of the problems in the data reported to the user for that item (seen both in the Sieve and the Watchlist - either some data is "copied back" to the Sieve, or they both refer to the same data field in memory).

Sieves:
1) Items coming up with no price (£) and "Ended Xm ago" - when these items have not actually ended. All seem to be BIN, good 'till cancelled shop listings. (I'm suspicious that the data AS is getting from ebay is actually that the item has 60? seconds to go before it's end, as I've seen such items come up with a "<1m" time as the sieve was running.)

2) Items coming up with no price (£) and rubbish (very long) end times. All seem to be auctions, although not many of these happen in 2.5.6.3.

[From what little programming I know, it feels like a decimal point in the wrong place causing an overflow, which way the overflow goes (+ve or -ve limit) causing either a very short or very long end time to be wrongly generated. Both symptoms could be down to the same bug?]

Watchlist:
3) When an item with a (£) price is added to the Watchlist, the Watchlist doesn't clear up the erroneous (£) after the correct price. (It might be no fault of the Watchlist code, which could be assuming the item is an auction with BIN, the BIN price being £[empty field], as that was what was handed to the Watchlist in the data from the Sieve.)

4) When an item that the Sieve believes has just ended is added to the Watchlist, the Watchlist doesn't find the correct end time - the data remains as "Ended Xm ago". (It's possible the correct answer should be "Unknown" or "-" as it is now.)

I hope I'm explaining it well enough!

Kind Regards
Andrew

jjforb · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:51 pm Post subject: AuctionSieve 2.5.6.3 Mac

I used the new beta yesterday and it worked find for me. So until the next time ebay changes things . . .