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merrillgi · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

I upgraded to 1.8.2 today, and in the change notes noticed something about how handling listings from foreign eBay sites was changed in 1.8.2. I watch the same eBay listing category in a lot of different eBays (US, France, Britain, etc.). Now in 1.8.2 all the non-US eBay listings it finds for me are completely in foreign languages, and when I choose the "watch this item" on the listing, the listing doesn't show up in My eBay, it shows up in "Mon eBay" or whatever. I do all my eBay work from the "my eBay Buying, Items I'm Watching" page and need all the listings I'm watching there, including the foreign ones. I could not do my work if I had to chase around to all these different "Mon eBay" etc. sites, and dealing with the foreign languages is difficult for me.

The way auctionsieve worked with foreign listings was just perfect in 1.8.1. I looked for an option setting to go back to the old way of handling things, but couldn't find one. Please tell me how to revert to the old behavior! Please, it's very important to my little business! Thank you.

nev · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:31 am Post subject:

Hi merrillgi,

Ok, so it sounds like you want it to always go to the default ebay site (Tools->Options...->Appearance->Default eBay site), yeah?

Makes sense - I think I'll add it as an option because I'm not sure what most people would expect. I had assumed that if someone was doing a search on a foreign site that they'd want to be going to that site when they view auctions.

As a workaround, while you wait for the update, you can do your search using ebay.com and select one of the options such as "Located in Any Country" or "Available to Any Country". Or is that not sufficient for what you need?

Nev

merrillgi · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

> Ok, so it sounds like you want it to always go to the default ebay site (Tools->Options...->Appearance->Default eBay site), yeah?

Yes!

> As a workaround, while you wait for the update, you can do your search using ebay.com and select one of the options such as "Located in Any Country" or "Available to Any Country". Or is that not sufficient for what you need?

No, that won't really do it, because I search by photograph in general categories, which is what makes AuctionSieve so useful to me. I have found one (inconvenient) workaround since my initial post - if I can remember to log in to a foreign eBay while I'm viewing a listing that I've found while using AuctionSeive, then that listing will appear in my US eBay "My eBay", and with English language messages. However, I have to do it for every foreign eBay I encounter, at the time I'm viewing the listings, or the listing is lost to me. Even if I remember to do it, this is inconvenient.

Thanks for your help!

berdo260 · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: 1.8.2 unwanted behavior

I upgraded to 1.8.2 and I also have an unwanted behavior.
I search for items (cars) in various foreign ebays. When I get the sieve results, I get everything perfect, as in the past, including the picture, title, price, bids etc. of the items. The problem arise when I want to view the item/s. When I click to the View or View All link to open the browser to get the full auction details, the program closes and I cannot get anymore to the file auctionsieve.exe. After searching all Hard Disks for the program, I do not find the file, it has been deleted but it is not even in the bin. So I have to reinstall it. This happens also when I try to open the items of the sieve result in a different way (by marking the right square at the end of each line of result and then clicking on the View Box). Even if I try to copy all the result items in my watchlist and then I try to open them from the watchlist itselfs I get the same problem.
I have tried also to use Mozilla Firefox insted of IE but the same occurs. I have also scanned the pc for viruses but none are there. I have downloaded the versiob 1.8.2 from your site:
http://www.auctionsieve.com/download/other-downloads.htm but before installing I got the following message:
The digital signature was generated with a trusted certificate but has expired or is not yet valid.
Thank you for your help
Dino

nev · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

merrillgi - Try out the latest beta (go to Tools->Check for beta updates) - I've changed the behaviour so that clicking on View will go to your default ebay site.

berdo260 - That is extremely odd. By default, on a pc the program is installed to C:\Program Files\AuctionSieve. Try this - open up windows explorer to look at that directory - you should see AuctionSieve.exe and several other files. Now try running it, get some auctions and click on View. Now, what happens in that directory??? One thing you can try changing is to go Tools->Options...->Browser tab and uncheck or check "Force creation of new browser window when clicking View". Let me know how you go.

merrillgi · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

I tried the 1.8.2.1 beta and it fixes the problem. Thanks!

But just to let you know, I did get one "ebay returned pages I can't interpret" or whatever message from US ebay when using the beta (I usually got about three using 1.8.2).

nev · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

Can you tell me the search you were running to get that message?

merrillgi · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

Yes, I was dowloading the listings in category 4733 on US ebay. It has never happened to me on any other country's ebay.

berdo260

Hi, thank you for your assistance! When I went to look at the Auctionsive directory, before I reinstalled it, AuctionSieve.exe was not there anymore. It was probably deleted when I tried to open the new browser windows from the result page. Several other files where there. Ireinstalled the program and I tried uncheck "Force creation of new browser window when clicking View" and NOW IT WORKS!!!

nev · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:40 am Post subject:

Excellent!
(Still very strange though...)