My Gixen Account Is Good Until...1969?

[Jane2]

My Gixen Miami page just listed the following information:

"Your Gixen mirror subscription is good until Wed, Dec 31, 1969"

Uhh....really? I'm guessing that's a mistake. Is the account good for a year?

[mario]

Jane, what is your ebay username?

Something is wrong here, that date equals to unix timestamp 0.

[Cupid]

What happens if subscription is paid past 2038-01-19, does it overflow?
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[mario]

No, it just stays at the same number (max int). 2039 means inifinity, if we ever get to that point I'll upgrade the database field to bigint instead of integer.

[Gixen]

[jane2]

My username is:

slaintesunday

I got this message when I went to check on the status of an item I was bidden on via Gixen. I don't know what happened to it, because it disappeared from my Gixen view and eBay does not show that I ever bid on it.

[mario]

Your subscription is good until Nov 5, 2011. Where did you see 1969? And what is the item number?

[jane2]

I have no idea what the item number was, because the auction disappeared from my Gixen view and it never showed up as something I bid on and/or lost on eBay. The message about 1969 was the page that pops up once you log in that shows you what items you're bidding on. There were no items listed when that message popped up. I actually copied and pasted it from that page into my original question here. I haven't seen the message since that day, and used Gixen for another item since that time which I did win.

[mario]

If you like, please email me with the details you can remember about the item, and I will search the logs. It's possible that auction was removed by ebay or that something similar happened.

Gixen removes items older than 48 hours (after auction ends), so the following sequence of events is possible:

1) ebay removes auction.
2) Gixen mis-recognizes something, and assignes timestamp 0.
3) Snipe is removed as being too old.

[jameskeim]

[mario]

jameskeim,

These are two different issues. "1969" was a display bug that I just fixed. Some of your bids are not shown on mirror as they are grouped snipes. Only single snipes are copied over to mirror.

[jameskeim]

Okay, that makes me feel better. Sorry about the confusion. I evidently didn't pay attention to the fact that grouping snipes excludes them from the backup server. Makes sense. Coordinating two servers for groups would be a nightmare.

Thank you for taking the time to look into it.