086 second, 8 hops I'm thinking the locals in the UK might have a few millisecond advantage being closer. better check the ping rate and trace route. Get ready for The Battle of the Broadbands! I wonder if my 6/mbs cable can smoke your 33.6/kbs dialup? Let's see. What? Change the rules in the middle of the game? Posts: 63536 | From: Washington | Registered: Jul 2001 This is the last sig I'll ever write for you. If they bid more than they're willing to pay (or less than they're willing to pay, if they really really want the item), that's stupid and if they bid what they are willing to pay, it shouldn't matter when they do it. People bidding at the last minute on eBay are morons. Which is how an auction should work anyway: the person willing to pay the most, gets the goods. Then if somebody outbids you (and it matters not a whit when they do it), it is because they were willing to pay more than you were. The solution is to bid what you are willing to pay. Posts: 12010 | From: Gone fishing | Registered: Oct 2004 They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. That way as soon as we get into "end range" people will bid for fear of having the auction end without their bids. Maybe some sort of "auctioneer's tax" that increases the closer we get to the end? Or maybe rather than ending all auctions on a fixed date and at a fixed time, just pick the closing point at random from a number of days and times. I don't really know what to suggest though. Otherwise this will be boring right up till the last day of the auction. I think there should be some mechanism to avoid ebay-type last second sniping. Thread: Auction introduction and questions My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board homeĪuction introduction and questions () #Jbidwatcher out of bounds license2.2(b) in the individual license ).Ship of Fools: Auction introduction and questions Use the API must not access eBay in any other way (that's in the Isn't there another reason? The eBay API does not allow #Jbidwatcher out of bounds fullSite, and will likely never use their XML API.Īndy (I don't know if he wants his full name shared) from The Auction Software Review adds: I hope this reasonably explains why I scrape their Program, nearly a million dollars a month to use eBay's officially #Jbidwatcher out of bounds freeIt would cost me personally, the author of a free Multiply by the lowest price per thousand calls, $1.25 * 738720 = $923,400 per month. Times a typical month of 30 days, means (30 * 24624000 =) 738,720,000 updates a month.ĭivide by 1000 (as the pricing is per thousand calls), for 738,720. That means 8208 * 3000 = 24,624,000 updates a day for all my users combined. That is 171*48 = 8208 updates a day total. Let's pretend that my usage is average.Įvery auction updates once every half hour. My current JBidwatcher instance has 171 active auctions. This is the eBay fee table for API requests: Past, and I've finally decided to put together a page explaining this. Why can't I use the XMLĪPI they have put together? I've been asked this many times in the Sleepless nights when eBay changes things. Some users have asked why I am forced to scrape eBay's site, causing I'm working on all angles right now, and hopefully this will be resolved, in which case this page will be for historical reference only. Since bidding is integral to the application, this would be a non-starter, obviously. So if the eBay bidding API is not made available, I can't use the free developer API without losing the ability to scrape in order to place bids. The developer contract stipulates that someone using the developer API will not, in addition, scrape. I'm working on getting that contract to sign, but until I know what it requires I can't make any promises. They also have not put the PlaceOffer API (the bidding API) out for general use a special contract must be signed to get access. Their new API limits programs to 1.5 million calls/day, which as the numbers below show is far too few. This is a GREAT move, however it doesn't necessarily resolve the problem of the number of API call equivalents JBidwatcher makes. This page is somewhat out of date, as eBay has reduced to 'free' their API charges.
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