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[ClippersChris2013]

Hello everyone. I have noticed a problem with AuctionSieve that may need to be addressed by an update. But, I first want to see if any of you have experienced the same issue I'm experiencing. Basically, I've begun to experience delays with my sieves in which the search within the sieve will get stuck or be delayed for long periods of time on each list of keyword searches. I'll try my best to describe the issue below.

As an example, I have a sieve that has 50 separate searches. When I activate the sieve by clicking "Get auctions!", the first search within the Sieve will begin as normal and the number of eBay search results will display on the Sieve tab along with the progress of the search (i.e. 50/1000). However, as the search progresses, the number eBay search results (in this example, the number is 1000), will begin to increase continuously as the first number approaches the second number.

I feel this may be a result of eBay potentially repeating search results as AuctionSieve clicks through the pages of eBay search results. Because I cannot see the pages of eBay search results that AuctionSieve is sorting through the same way a user could see the search results on the eBay site through a browser, I cannot personally validate this theory. But, it would be reasonable to come to this conclusion since the actual "Sieve results" do not increase any further as the number of eBay search results displayed in the tab increase past the initial amount shown.

In my example, that means once the results displayed on the tab reaches "(950/1000)", the second number will begin to increase and the first number fails to catch up until the second number increases several dozen times. I just did a search where the last number started around 1300 and increased until it hit around 9000, at which time, the first number finally caught up and allowed the second search within the Sieve to finally begin. Note again, that the "Sieve results" did not increase during that span between 1300 and 9000.

With all of that said, I would like to recommend of simple solution of adding a "Skip" feature in the form of a button that will allow an AuctionSieve user to skip to the next search in the sieve assuming that there isn't another way to prevent the issue above from happening. That way, a user will have direct control in the event that there is a delay like described above.

Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with what I have described? Please let me know. Thanks!

[nev]

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 results in item 9, item 88, item 55, etc

Only item 9 will be added to the results when the second search is running because it already has item 88 and 55. So while it's getting 50 results per page, it may only be adding some of those items to the results. Also, the number won't go up if you have any result filters being applied.

One way to test this would be to create a sieve with just the search that seems to be exhibiting the issue.

There is one other possibility - that eBay have some new page designs - when I was implementing the fixes for the last update I saw some radically different pages which AuctionSieve had no hope of understanding with the current code.