What's new in AuctionSieve 3.0.5
Jan 29, 2020
- This release Fix for New Today timeframe The app is now notarized for macOS 10.15
- If you’re having any issues getting AuctionSieve running on Catalina, download a fresh copy and re-install it
New in AuctionSieve 3.0.3 (Jun 17, 2019)
- Fix to remove empty 'Sponsored' item
- Fix for blank images
- Fix for blank hover images
- Fix for New Today timeframe (making it ignore Sponsored items)
New in AuctionSieve 3.0.1 (Jun 27, 2018)
- Fix for everything displaying as BINs and missing bids
- Fix for missing first page results due to eBay changes
- Fix to ignore extra results when zero in category
- Faster image downloading
New in AuctionSieve 3.0.0 (Feb 5, 2018)
- Now supports Java 9 on macOS!
- Has a fix for prices not showing in category sieves
- Has rate limiting to get rid of eBay 503 errors
New in AuctionSieve 2.8.0 (May 8, 2017)
- Another fix to ignore eBay more related items
- Fix for regression when excluding sellers
- Fix to ignore eBay search suggestions
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.9 (Dec 28, 2016)
- Fix to skip 'more related items'
- Fix to handle dodgy eBay search counts
- Fix for international characters like umlauts
- Fix for New Today results being curtailed by Sponsored listings
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.7 (May 11, 2016)
- New feature – Mouse over an image to pop up a larger one:
- With this release, you can now see large images without visiting eBay. It works whether you are displaying small or large thumbnails. It even works when “Download auction images” is turned off. Just put your cursor over the camera icon.
- New feature – Search by private or business seller:
- Also, introduced in 2.7.6 is a new search option.
- This is only applicable to certain eBay sites – mostly European. On these eBay sites you can specify the type of seller – private or business. Most people requested this feature because they want to only see results from private sellers. It’s more likely you’ll find interesting or bargain eBay items from private sellers!
- I also cleaned up some code which means there should be a slight performance increase as well (For the geeks among you, I totally rewrote the code that constructs eBay search urls – eBay has made a bunch of changes to the formatting of these urls in the past and seems to have settled on a nice standard. They kept the old formats working – they’d just redirect – but it appears they’ve finally removed those redirects.)
- See more details with larger images! Just put your mouse over an image to pop up a larger view
- Fix for larger image thumbnails not working
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.6 (May 11, 2016)
- Fix for eBay changes – zero results issue
- New search option – restrict to private or business sellers
- Further fix for category based sieves
- Fix for some bad titles in category based sieves
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.5 (May 11, 2016)
- Now displays placeholders for images so list doesn’t keep changing in size
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.4 (May 11, 2016)
- Special Apple III edition
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.3 (May 11, 2016)
- Another fix for category searches only returning 50 results
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.2 (Feb 16, 2015)
- Fix for category searches only returning 50 results
- minor UI improvements
- renamed the 'ignore already seen' filter
- Got rid of old, no longer used stuff
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.1 (Feb 9, 2015)
- Fix for prices appearing as BINs (and missing bids)
- Some other minor UI improvements
New in AuctionSieve 2.7.0 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Fix for some searches ending after one page
- Fix to make category searches work again
- Fix for all prices appearing as BINs for ebay.com.au
- Fix for category searches returning bogus extra stuff when you get zero results
- Fix for some people getting odd eBay pages
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.7 (Mar 25, 2014)
- This is mostly a release full of fixes for eBay changes. I’ve also added more robustness to the retry mechanism
- New feature – Include store items:
- There is 1 new feature – a new search option to include store items
- Many years ago, eBay started adding store items and most users didn’t want to see them – most users of AuctionSieve are only interested in items from regular people, not resellers
- However, as stores have become more prevalent, including mom and pop stores, eBay have changed how they present store items – they’re mixed in with regular results in a more integrated way. This can lead to some confusion because it appears AuctionSieve doesn’t return the same number of items as the same search on eBay returns. It’s because store items are ignored. I’ve now provided a search option which enables you to include these items in the results
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.4 (Oct 9, 2013)
- New dialog when viewing first item to comply with eBay Partner Network policies Fix for intermittent error when retrieving many sieves at once
- Fix for eBay changes - ignoring 'More items related to'
- Cleans up tmp files
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.3 (Feb 14, 2013)
- Fix so people with older versions of Java (Java 5) can run it - Note: To use Import/Export, you need Java 6 or later
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.2 (Feb 11, 2013)
- Export and Import
- Latest News feature
- New keystrokes for Get Auctions for all open sieves and Open All sieves
- Ctrl-w/Command-w closes current tab
- Click-able links in update messages Fixes for eBay changes
- New Today searches
- Preferred Location searches (eg European Union)
- Fix for items with price ranges (ebay UK only)
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.1 (Feb 11, 2013)
- New option 'Best Offer' only retrieves items where you can make an offer
- Fix for some searches retrieving only 50 results
- Fix to ensure time frame works
- Fix for blank watchlist columns
New in AuctionSieve 2.6.0 (Sep 3, 2012)
- Colored tabs - red when retrieving, green when done
- Tabs now show filtered item count instead of total count
- When getting auctions, tabs now show number of items retrieved out of total available
- Close Tab and Get Auctions ask for confirmation if you have current results
- Larger thumbnails - you can go back to the smaller thumbnails by going to Tools->Options...->Sieve tab and turn off "Use large image thumbnails"
- Is an Auction' filter
- Fixes for many eBay changes
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.7 (Nov 27, 2011)
- New features:
- Support for long titles
- Confirm Exit option
- BINs with no definite ending time now shown as ‘-’ instead of Unknown
- Fixes:
- Mainly for French and UK eBay sites
- Missing or bad prices
- Bad times in results
- No prices for items that say See details
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.6 (Aug 12, 2011)
- Fixes for eBay UK
- Fix for missing last item - sometimes only got 49 results per page
- Uses time of 'Unknown' for BINs where time left is not shown in search results
- Fixes a problem saving the watchlist when a user's temp directory is on a different volume
- Made the Manage Sieves dialog bigger
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.5 (Dec 15, 2010)
- Results are displayed as they're downloaded - no more waiting for complete results!
- Fix to make eBay Spain work again
- Fix for missing final result on some pages
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.4 (Dec 15, 2010)
- Fix for incorrect bids in Ended Watchlist items
- Fix for incorrect time left and prices in Watchlist
- New search option – free shipping!
- New time frames – 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes
- ‘Remove’ button in Price History search panel
- Option to turn off the ‘too many pages’ warning
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.3 (Dec 15, 2010)
- fixes for eBay changes – incorrect time left and some others
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.2 (Nov 18, 2010)
- new option to search for auctions only - thanks Ian Brabner for bugging me!
- now that eBay Store items appear in results as just regular items, I've re-arranged the Store and BIN options
- look under the new 'Must be' search option - a lot of the real bargains are one-off auctions by regular people - as opposed to the truckload of BIN items listed by resellers
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.1 (Aug 7, 2010)
- fixes due to eBay changes - no results, weird prices etc
- fix for eBay France and Belgium - was only getting 50 results - thanks darigh!
- hopefully a fix for the annoying IndexOutOfBoundsException on Macs - thanks to Doug Grinbergs and everyone else who's bugged me about this
- fix for refreshing eBay motor items in the watchlist
- a whole swag of code refactoring behind the scenes - hooray for Java 5!
New in AuctionSieve 2.5.0 (May 23, 2010)
- new icon!
- It was finally time to break with the past - now that AuctionSieve requires Java 1.5, I can start adding features that have been on hold for a long time. Although there aren't any other new features, to mark this significant break, I've updated the version to 2.5.0
New in AuctionSieve 2.1.2 (May 23, 2010)
- fixes for eBay changes - only returning 1 page of results
- some fixes for watchlist and price history info
New in AuctionSieve 2.1.1 (May 23, 2010)
- fixes for eBay changes
- fix to get all results reliably
- fix for StackOverFlowException and NullPointerException when getting watchlist item info
New in AuctionSieve 2.1.0 (Mar 15, 2010)
- New features:
- Sieves and settings now stored in your user folder!
- when you next start up, all your info will be copied to your user folder
- If you want your sieves to remain in the program folder, look in Tools->Options->Advanced - handy for those who want to run AuctionSieve from a USB thumb-drive.
- Title sorting now ignores the word 'The' at the start of titles
- (you can turn it off in options to go back to the old behaviour)
- Thanks to Bonnie Smith
- Fix for eBay changes
- EBay category chooser temporarily disabled - you can still manually enter ids
- Minor fix for auto-get sieves
New in AuctionSieve 2.0.1 (Feb 8, 2010)
- New features:
- new Preferred Location option - especially handy for Europeans
- Global seller exclude list (under Tools->Options->Sieve Actions)
- Ctrl-T (Cmd-T on Mac) will create a new tab/sieve
- Delete sieve by right-clicking tab and select Delete from popup menu
- Removed Quit from File menu on Macs
- What's New under Help menu (for those who download updates without reading)
- Bug fixes:
- Fix for UK new today search
- Fix for seller info corruption in watchlist
- Fix to get watchlist info for non-US items
- Fix for some Unknown ending times in the Watchlist
New in AuctionSieve 1.9.9 (Oct 5, 2009)
- fixes for ebay changes - bids and BIN prices not showing correctly
New in AuctionSieve 1.9.8 (Oct 5, 2009)
- better linking to eBay Germany, Ireland, Switzerland & Austria
- a fix to more reliably get images for watchlist items
- fix to make "Include Stores" option work again
- fixes for eBay changes - results and watchlist items
- fix for eBay France - was only getting one page of results