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wickmesh · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:30 am Post subject: Same junk results in every sieve

I was putting this off as an ebay glitch, but it's becoming consistent and annoying.

It's as if ebay is ignoring the search terms supplied by AS completely, and providing one page of results from something random - and AS is not catching that it has happened.

I'm wondering if it's part of ebay's DDOS protection because if I open multiple sieves at once it seems to occur more often. The same random results appear in every sieve. Some sieves pick up a few correct results (as if some of the searches in that sieve worked OK) but despite containing multiple searches most don't.

The last few days have been various Pokemon cards, today is a load of jewellery with the word "tourmaline" in the title. Neither of which are things I'm searching for or remotely interested in.

The temporary fix seems to be either to try again later - or to hammer ebay. Hit each sieve repeatedly, watching the number of results to see that they are increasing as you'd expect each time, each time go through the results you get, until you've seen everything and the number of new results is zero (assuming you use "Hide items shown before" - if not good luck)!

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:44 am Post subject:

Example image below.

Sometimes trash words that you already have set up get rid of some of the junk results, hence some sieves having less results than others - but if I unclick "Trash Word filter" the junk is all there.

EDIT - actually some of them have a mix of yesterday's Pokemon Cards (all "Sword & Shield" or some variation of this) hidden by trash words, as well as today's Tourmaline!

nev · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 5:43 am Post subject:

Hmmm, I'm encountering this problem as well.
As you say, they may have become more strict with their DDOS protection.
When I retrieve just a single sieve, it's fine.
If I retrieve multiple sieves at once, it will occasionally throw up bad pages.

Whereby bad pages, when I look at what has actually been returned - it's basically a page with 0 results. Which is kind of odd. Because if it was a DDOS protection, it would return nothing - ie no page at all. But they're actually returning a legitimate page - just with 0 results - which is nonsense...

nev · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 5:55 am Post subject:

And yes, also got weird results where one sieve had results from a completely different sieve - as though ebay was returning stuff it thought I might like based on past searches or something.

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:00 am Post subject:

wickmesh · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:48 pm Post subject:

Good news is that this one seems to have gone away now! For a while I've been able to safely open all my sieves at the same time.