[Ebayagent-users] Was not able to get bidding key, aborting

[Paul S. <ps...@Un...>]

This is what i get when bidding with the latest CVS checkout version
("eBayAgent.pl,v 1.116 2004/09/28 21:04:25 fess Exp") and perl option -w 
turned on:

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Useless use of numeric eq (==) in void context at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1748.
Name "Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1095.
Name "Mail::Sendmail::error" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1558.
Name "Getopt::Long::ignorecase" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 566.
Name "Getopt::Long::autoabbrev" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 565.
Useless use of numeric eq (==) in void context at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1748.
Name "Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1095.
Name "Mail::Sendmail::error" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 1558.
Name "Getopt::Long::ignorecase" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 566.
Name "Getopt::Long::autoabbrev" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/ebayagent line 565.
eBay Agent Version 0.9.10b
Copyright 2001-2004 Andrew Wansink & Martial Michel
This software comes with NO WARRANTY, /usr/bin/ebayagent -D for details
Type "perldoc /usr/bin/ebayagent" for documentation
(Locale for this bid process is "com")
Requesting: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1234567890
Current date (eBay)       : Sat Oct  9 09:52:46 2004 (GMT)
Current date (this system): Sat Oct  9 09:52:49 2004 (GMT)
Bid End time (eBay)       : Sat Oct  9 10:58:26 2004 (GMT)
[Sat Oct  9 11:52:49 2004] Bid accepted: Maximum bid of EUR 14.50 (Currently: EUR 2.50 / Minimum bid: EUR 3.00) for item number 1234567890 (Item Title)
Bidding in: 00:00:13 seconds
Bidding in: 00:00:00 seconds
Bidding EUR 14.50 for item 1234567890 (Item Title)
Requesting: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=MakeBid&item=1234567890&maxbid=14.50&quant=1
Requesting: http://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll
Requesting: http://offer.ebay.com:80/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=MakeBid&item=1234567890&maxbid=14.50&quant=1&BidBinInfo=%3CbidInfo%3E%3CID%3E1234567890%3C/ID%3E%3CMB%3E14.50%3C/MB%3E%3CQTY%3E1%3C/QTY%3E%3C/bidInfo%3E
ERROR: Was not able to get bidding key, aborting (sorry)

Press "ENTER" to Finish
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And it doesn't matter which eBayAgent locale i'm using.

Strangely enough, when i bid via "Bidnow" bidding works just fine...

                                      Thanks, P. *8^)