The Problem is still there. Maybe it is something with the locales, as I am a german bidder? I got the Page 'http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881' also and put it here, as it seems to differ in certain items:
As for being a German user, this make no difference, esniper always uses the US site and english locale. From feedback I get, it appears that the country with the most esniper users is Germany.
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I just had a try with my Xubuntu Linux @ home and the same results ("Title not found").
However - the error message even shows up now after the auction has ended (I had to snipe by hand this time... ;-)
And - interesting - this auction seemed to have been some new auction type. It had 4 equal items with optional instant buy or bidding (??? I never saw this before...). So Ebay asked me for the bidding price AND for a quantity when bidding. Now I got two Items for the same bidding price (start price).
Regards, Andreas
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2007-02-12
I figured it out, thanks to your description of what was different.
I patched esniper to work with this style of auction on 27/11/06. I though I was testing your problem with 2.15.0, but I was actually using the CVS head.
So, there is a fix for this already. I really should get out a minor release done to get a few bug fixes distributed.
Thanks for your patience, sorry I didn't figure this out sooner.
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Oh, cool - I will wait in patience for any new release.
If you like (and it seems like you do) I will post further issues here. I had also in the meantime (since 2.15.0) some problems with esniper oversleeping auctions. So esniper said "sleeping for a day" or something, allthough the auction ended in an hour... ;-) But I had this only once and so I ignored it. Next time I will post here.
Thanks a lot again for esniper and your support.
Andreas
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2007-02-12
If you find an example of esniper over-sleeping, please post a bug report.
However, just keep in mind that if you place a bid on an auction, and you are currently the top bid, esniper will follow that auction even if it is not the one ending soonest. I plan to make some changes that will help reduce this happening.
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As I try to remember, I think the problem disappeared after I cut out lots of comment lines. I think esniper had problems with my habit to insert multiple comment lines with german 'umlauts' and date/timestamps of the following auctions. But this is only a vague guess, because this is already about 4 weeks ago. Last week I lost three (very minor) auctions in a row because esniper did not bet, but I will keep my eyes open now and post a sample auction.txt if this happens again.
Regards, Andreas
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> However, just keep in mind that if you place a bid on an auction,
> and you are currently the top bid, esniper will follow that auction
> even if it is not the one ending soonest. I plan to make some changes
> that will help reduce this happening.
AAHHH - I remember - this should have been exact the problem 4 weeks ago... There was an auction several days in advance which (what I usually never do) I already bet an Euro to void the "buy it now" option... When I shortened the auction.txt I probably temporarily commented out this auction because it was not urgent. And on the next days someone surely overbid me and the auction worked fine again...
Puh - what a nasty litte bug... ;-)
Thanks again, Andreas
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2007-02-12
It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)
esniper tries to be conservative, because it would rather not make you buy more stuff than you want. A "don't be conservative" flag is on the todo list.
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Hello all you cool guys who coded this tool and saved me hours of time and piles of money,
there is one auction that does not work:
> Auction 170079826881: Title not found
> Retrying...
> Auction 170079826881: Title not found
> Retrying...
> Auction 170079826881: Title not found
All other auctions do fine - so just for your interest. Here is the logfile for this auction (however - I can't read anything senseful in it... ;-)
http://mollat.de/bin/170079826881.log.gz
Regards & have a nice day,
Andreas from Germany
P.S.: O/S is OpenBSD 3.8
170079826881 work fine here. Are you possibly using an old version of esniper? What does "esniper -v" say?
Works for me, too. Can you get this page on your computer:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881
And send it to me? If you are using linux, you should be able to use wget, i.e.
wget 'http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881'
Hello Scott,
Your requested wget output his here:
http://www.mollat.de/bin/eBayISAPI.dll-ViewBids.gz
esniper -v reports:
> esniper version 2.15.0
The Problem is still there. Maybe it is something with the locales, as I am a german bidder? I got the Page 'http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881' also and put it here, as it seems to differ in certain items:
http://mollat.de/bin/eBayISAPI.dll-ViewBids.de.gz
Thanks for your interest,
Andreas
I bet you forgot the single quotes around the URL. You probably did this:
wget http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881
The shell interprets the "&" as "put wget in the background", and then item=... is a separate command (you are setting an environment variable).
Please do it again, but this time leave in the quotes:
wget 'http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881'
As for being a German user, this make no difference, esniper always uses the US site and english locale. From feedback I get, it appears that the country with the most esniper users is Germany.
Unbelievable, that someone like me can earn his money as a unix admin...
Here again with quotes:
http://mollat.de/bin/eBayISAPI.dll-ViewBids-item-170079826881.gz
And a ngrep trace for the whole esniper startup (filtered for port 80)
http://mollat.de/bin/ngrep.log.gz
Regards, Andreas
Unbelievable I earn money programming!
I guess wget obeys locale. Oops, that messed things up. Can you try one more time?
LC_ALL=C wget 'http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170079826881'
... done. Same link like above:
http://mollat.de/bin/eBayISAPI.dll-ViewBids-item-170079826881.gz
Regards, Andreas
I just had a try with my Xubuntu Linux @ home and the same results ("Title not found").
However - the error message even shows up now after the auction has ended (I had to snipe by hand this time... ;-)
And - interesting - this auction seemed to have been some new auction type. It had 4 equal items with optional instant buy or bidding (??? I never saw this before...). So Ebay asked me for the bidding price AND for a quantity when bidding. Now I got two Items for the same bidding price (start price).
Regards, Andreas
I figured it out, thanks to your description of what was different.
I patched esniper to work with this style of auction on 27/11/06. I though I was testing your problem with 2.15.0, but I was actually using the CVS head.
So, there is a fix for this already. I really should get out a minor release done to get a few bug fixes distributed.
Thanks for your patience, sorry I didn't figure this out sooner.
Oh, cool - I will wait in patience for any new release.
If you like (and it seems like you do) I will post further issues here. I had also in the meantime (since 2.15.0) some problems with esniper oversleeping auctions. So esniper said "sleeping for a day" or something, allthough the auction ended in an hour... ;-) But I had this only once and so I ignored it. Next time I will post here.
Thanks a lot again for esniper and your support.
Andreas
If you find an example of esniper over-sleeping, please post a bug report.
However, just keep in mind that if you place a bid on an auction, and you are currently the top bid, esniper will follow that auction even if it is not the one ending soonest. I plan to make some changes that will help reduce this happening.
As I try to remember, I think the problem disappeared after I cut out lots of comment lines. I think esniper had problems with my habit to insert multiple comment lines with german 'umlauts' and date/timestamps of the following auctions. But this is only a vague guess, because this is already about 4 weeks ago. Last week I lost three (very minor) auctions in a row because esniper did not bet, but I will keep my eyes open now and post a sample auction.txt if this happens again.
Regards, Andreas
> However, just keep in mind that if you place a bid on an auction,
> and you are currently the top bid, esniper will follow that auction
> even if it is not the one ending soonest. I plan to make some changes
> that will help reduce this happening.
AAHHH - I remember - this should have been exact the problem 4 weeks ago... There was an auction several days in advance which (what I usually never do) I already bet an Euro to void the "buy it now" option... When I shortened the auction.txt I probably temporarily commented out this auction because it was not urgent. And on the next days someone surely overbid me and the auction worked fine again...
Puh - what a nasty litte bug... ;-)
Thanks again, Andreas
It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)
esniper tries to be conservative, because it would rather not make you buy more stuff than you want. A "don't be conservative" flag is on the todo list.