Bidwatcher broken in stable ebuild

appetitus · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 210

Bidwatcher gets broken pretty regularly by eBay webpage redesign (bidwatcher reads an ebay webpage for time sync info). Version 1.3.13 (the only buildable version in portage currently) is broken and will fail badly prior to auction completion.

Version 1.3.14 is slightly better, but will declare the auction ended five minutes before eBays official ending. It has the same parsing problem.

Version 1.3.15

Gentree · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

First off, great sig. You could " or someone has pulled the rug from under you!.

Now at ver 1.3.17 . Needs -mno-mmx to compile.

I am not sure what bidwatcher is supposed to do but as for "sniping" I could not see anywhere to add a bid , bid increment or to make a bid.

Is it now just, as its name says, a "bidwatcher" ?

Anyone actually using this software?

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Doogman · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 242

When I was more actively EBaying, bidwatcher was the only really usable bidding software for Linux.

Is there anything better?

Gentree · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

Doogman,

how do you actually bid with this software?!

I get the impression that either I am missing something very obvious or that functionallity has been removed because it was not reliable - I have seen a lot of bugs about crashes, segfaults, and bids not being registered the other end .

Can you enlighten me?

Thx

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Maedhros · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:43 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments.
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Gentree · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject:

OK , I found it . Right-click on an auction item brings up a menu that includes bid/snipe.

So obvious it did not merit being put in the doc? WTFM.

Actually works rather well once you work out how to drive it.

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MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

Nope, it doesn't work here.

I've missed out on winning two bids so far, this is the jist of it: