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#908 ebay Login now failing
Friday night ebay forced my password to be reset
(there security group indicated a problem). I have
reset it successfully and can now use ebay in the
browser w/o problems.
The reset request appeared to coincide with a snipe I
won thru Jbid. The first few attempts at reusing the
new password thru the browser, sent me to the
"number/letter picture" verify window. That is a
window where you have to type in the "numbers and
letters" you see in a multi colored image / picture
they show you in the browser. I guess this is to
prevent botts from auto registering / cracking passwords.
Since then the login (yet I updated the password in
Jbid, and have retyped it numerous times to insure no
type-os) thru Jbidwatcher is failing.
Mac OS X 10.4.6 all updates, Jbid 1.0pre6.
Here is the log:
Sun Apr 30 12:01:15 EDT 2006: MQ_Swing: Postponing
Message: SNIPECHANGED
Sun Apr 30 12:01:15 EDT 2006: Getting the sign in
cookie. [**********@ebay: Error communicating with
server/30-Apr-2006 12:01:15 EDT]
Sun Apr 30 12:01:16 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:16 EDT
2006: ********** (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Preparing
snipe. (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:18 EDT 2006: Username/password not valid.
Sun Apr 30 12:01:20 EDT 2006: Username/password not valid.
Sun Apr 30 12:01:20 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:20 EDT
2006: ********** (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Loading
bid request... (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:21 EDT 2006: Checking sign in as bid
key load failed!
Sun Apr 30 12:01:21 EDT 2006: Being prompted again for
sign in, retrying.
Sun Apr 30 12:01:21 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:21 EDT
2006: ********** (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Not done
loading bid request, got re-login request... (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:21 EDT 2006: Username/password not valid.
Sun Apr 30 12:01:23 EDT 2006: Username/password not valid.
Sun Apr 30 12:01:23 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:23 EDT
2006: 9710850845 (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Done
re-logging in, retrying load bid request. (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:23 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:23 EDT
2006: 9710850845 (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Loading
bid request... (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:24 EDT 2006: Sun Apr 30 12:01:24 EDT
2006: ************ (Apple DVI to ADC Adapter) - Sign in
failed repeatedly during bid. Check your username and
password information in the Configuration Manager. (1)
Sun Apr 30 12:01:24 EDT 2006: Sign in failed repeatedly
during bid. Check your username and password
information in the Configuration Manager.
Logged In: NO
I got the same password change messeage, changed the
password on the ebay site, then in jbidwatcher and the
logon works.
Logged In: YES
user_id=621238
Yup, it seems that Ebay does not like JBidwatcher any more.
They reset my password as well, and I lost a snipe because
of it. After choosing a new password (and entering it in
JBidwatcher), it seems that jbidwatcher is functional again,
although it has not made any bids yet. Updating running
auctions seems to work.
Is there anything in their Terms of Use that forbids using a
helper program like bidwatcher?
Logged In: YES
user_id=621238
Yup, it seems that Ebay does not like JBidwatcher any more.
They reset my password as well, and I lost a snipe because
of it. After choosing a new password (and entering it in
JBidwatcher), it seems that jbidwatcher is functional again,
although it has not made any bids yet. Updating running
auctions seems to work.
Is there anything in their Terms of Use that forbids using a
helper program like bidwatcher?
Logged In: NO
Exact same situation here.
Logged In: NO
I am having a simillar problem, E-bay forced me to change
my password which I did in botth E-bay and JBid. Now I
cant make any bids in JBid, I get the message that the
username and password dont agree.
Logged In: YES
user_id=346872
Well I'm glad im not alone on this one. Over a week ago I
couldn't sign into my account and was redirected to a page
I've never seen before with a CAPTCHA. I have since changed
my password via the 'lost password' process and can now
login sucessfully and bid sucessfully via my browser but I
am getting the same 'Username/password not valid' errors
that everybody is getting via Jbidwatcher.
This is a bit troubling, because what it means is that ebay
is using some sort of heuristic to determin Snipe Programs
from humans. Since my IP is the same regardless if I use
Jbidwatcher or bid via my browser manually, it cannot be
that. The one thing that pops into my mind is that
Jbidwatcher has a unique 'User Agent' when logging in that
ebay is blocking. If this isn't it, surely it's something
similar that allows ebay to distinguish Jbidwatcher from
IE/Firefox. Another troubling thing is what exactly set off
their "Your password seems to be comprimised and thus reset"
alarm. The only thing that I can think of is that they are
looking at the delta between when the snipe was placed and
when the auction ends. If its something small that only a
computer can do reliably (less than 6 seconds?) then they
reset the password.
Hopfully the problem is alot less severe than I am
imagining. One idea I have to get around the CAPTCHA is to
jave JBidwatcher display the CAPTCHA, similar to how it
displays auction pictures, and have a box next to it for us
to enter in the CAPTCHA text. I hope this is just a minor
hiccup but it looks like ebay has set their sniper sights on
sniper programs :(
Logged In: YES
user_id=19745
Originator: NO
Greetings,
Bugs filed before 1.0 and bugs without responders are being juggled in terms of priority (9 is highest priority). I'm raising bugs filed with a submitter, post-1.0 to P6. Bugs which are filed post-1.0, but without a submitter are P5. Before 1.0 bugs with a submitter are becoming P4, and pre-1.0 bugs without a submitter name become P3.
If the bug is still relevant, and has a watcher (i.e. you got notified when I changed this bug), feel free to bubble it back up again.
Email addresses in bugs are great, but I can't always respond via email. Sometimes, especially for duplicate bugs, I use automated tools (like I'm doing right now) to change status on a large number of items at once.
Thanks for your patience, while I try to pare back the bug list to what may actually still be in the program.
-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!