Bids never happen

[dvanco]

Describe the bug
The items in my list all look as I expect - I can put in a bid amount, set the item to bid, and everything looks ready to go.

When the time comes to bid the "Bid tab" opens and it starts the countdown - and when it gets to the designated time nothing happens.

No bid is placed.

And error shows if I examine the plugins in Chrome.

To Reproduce
Set up a bid and wait for the auction to close - it will fail.

Expected behavior
It should place a bid

Screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/ZXsFJKm

Imgur is cutting off the code I pasted from the browser for the button select:
<a data-cta="placebid" data-url="https://www.ebay.com/bfl/placebid/313523834606?_trksid=p2047675.m4905&amp;currencyId=USD" data-itemid="313523834606" data-initelment="hidden_init_module" data-elementid="MaxBidId" data-loading="Loading..." data-elementparams="maxbid" data-signinurl="" data-signinstate="true" data-fallbackurl="https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;cta=placebid&amp;item=313523834606&amp;fromPage=2047675&amp;fb=2" role="button" id="bidBtn_btn" style="" class="btn btn-prim vi-VR-btnWdth-XL vilens-item" href="https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;cta=placebid&amp;item=313523834606&amp;fromPage=2047675&amp;fb=2" vib="vib" rel="nofollow" "=""> Place bid</a>

Your Environment (please complete the following information):
Win 10, latest Chrome, latest Biet-o-Matic

stack trace.txt

[sweitzel]

Thanks, sounds like the ebay.com (english language) HTML code has been changed.
Will check it out.

btw, the stacktrace.txt seems a bit useless, the real error is not included (just basically the whole minified JS code).

[sweitzel]

Hmm, the item page works normal here, for example. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254984611920
The price can be entered and no error visible. The bid button is not relevant. BE does not actually use that as it openes a special bidding page.

Could be that there was a recent frontend change which only geographically rolls out slowly 🤔?
Could you please share the BE item log for one of the affected items?

[sweitzel]

I found out the reason.
On ebay.com they changed the offer page. offer.ebay.com is redirecting to a new offer "popup" and BE fails to use it (not implemented).

This is a bigger change, and I need to find out how to address this properly.

[sweitzel]

Thats bad. The whole offer.ebay.com has been removed / replaced.

[simonjk]

Same Problem also on ebay.de

[schwabeltier]

Yes, same on ebay.de
this could help
https://www.ebay.de/itm/353510455790?bolp=1&maxbid=1
Is there anywhere in this universe an overview for this variables, that could fit in to this link?

[dvanco]

Anything I can do to help?

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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 9:10 AM schwabeltier ***@***.***> wrote: Yes, same on ebay.de this could help https://www.ebay.de/itm/353510455790?bolp=1&maxbid=1 — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#30 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADJ7TFMILXJCWATDVVBRYO3TPTXLVANCNFSM45J7ZI2A> .

[sweitzel]

In my opinion Ebay is currently in an inconsistent state (tbh the Ebay code quality scares me). The implementation at least does not look complete anymore or yet:

They specify a data-fallback URL on the confirm button: http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MakeBid&mode=1&item=353510455790&maxbid=1,00&fromPage=2047675&fb=2&transid=0&bu=confirm but its not working anymore as the offer.ebay page redirects back to the item page.

Actually in an older version of BE I just pressed the bid button on the item page, and confirmed in the popup modal. If that remained in place, everything would have continued to work.

But unfortunately that was not really stable, as the item page is super large with many Javascripts. The offer page was considerably slimmer and much more stable. So getting this back to work, I basically need to restore some old functionality (see #16) but as BE evolved more or less rewrite it.

As unfortunate as it is , I currently tend to stop working on this extension and focus on projects where I have the ecosystem under my own control.

[dvanco]

I understand. And the inconsistency is likely, as you say, because of a slow roll-out of code to all locations. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted :)

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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:12 PM Sebastian Weitzel ***@***.***> wrote: In my opinion Ebay is currently in an inconsistent state. The implementation does not look complete: They specify a data-fallback URL on the confirm button: http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MakeBid&mode=1&item=353510455790&maxbid=1,00&fromPage=2047675&fb=2&transid=0&bu=confirm but its not working anymore as the offer.ebay page redirects back to the item page. Actually in an older version of BE I just pressed the bid button on the item page, and confirmed in the popup modal. If that remained in place, everything would have continued to work. But unfortunately that was not really stable, as the item page is super large with many Javascripts. The offer page was considerably slimmer and much more stable. So getting this back to work, I basically need to restore some old functionality (see #16 <#16>) but as BE evolved more or less rewrite it. As unfortunate as it is , I currently tend to stop working on this extension and focus on projects where I have the ecosystem under my own control. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#30 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADJ7TFMH2JWHUWHLIWPAJCDTPU2XBANCNFSM45J7ZI2A> .

[schwabeltier]

Hey Sweitzel,
first: thank you for this nice tool!
second: Ikn, wether you can just hit the Button for bidding on an item and confirm (i gues, this was the intention, right?)
By that would it be gratefull, because, this functionality ist just very easy, to implement this simple bid-process?
Third: If you just follow the link, i posted above with the bolp and maxbid paramter, it shall work.
I know, a tool, which could handle your own ecosystem would be grater, do you see possibilities for that? Because the Login on Ebay gets worse and even more worse with captchas and this stuff. I think there must be an API-Solution via an by ebay authorized Application. This sounds very complicated. I would be very very glad, if you could just implement a hidding of the bid-confirm-button and a call via the given link. Your tool is the only good working tool on the internet. Im unsure, how many contributors/donaters you have via the forum.
"additional benefits in the future."

[stuboy333]

think i have the same problem? i attach screen shot just happened today:-