Recent eBay software update

[mario]

I haven't had a lot of sleep in the morning of the Aug 19th.

As you may know, sniping services work by scraping eBay pages and thus imitating browsers. Any change in ebay page(s) structure results in problems for sniping services.

So, eBay rolled out a new software some time around 3.50 AM EST on Thursday morning, and soon after I got alerted (and woken up) that something is wrong. What followed is a fixing it in the middle of the night, and I was able to release the fix less than 2 hours later, at 5.36 EST.

I looked today at the auctionsniper forum (http://community.auctionsniper.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/385608021/m/2881047732), and guess at what time they restored their site? 1 PM. In fact, it is obvious that nobody lost their sleep over this, and that they started working on it in the morning, after they had a good night sleep.

And some users even thanked them for "keeping up the good work". Unbelieveable.

[courteousbuyer]

Thanks very much Mario for your hard work!

How do you stay notified of eBay software updates?

[mario]

I have alerting routines - when several snipes fail in a row for unknown reason, they send an email (or sms on my cell, depending on how I set it).

[Lee]

Never mind, Mario. You're still OUR Hero.

[Gixen]

[Ben]

your dilligence will pay out !
i am sure of that.