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Greetings, The JBidwatcher home page, forums, and svn are all down for a few hours while my hosting service fixes some power problems in their data center. I’m really sorry I didn’t set up a fallback DNS, or something else, beforehand. Offhand, I don’t know a good way to handle my sole host being powered [...]

Greetings, I have an important personal announcement! My wife and I have a baby on the way; he is due in early May! (The linked post also includes details on what I’m working on for JBidwatcher2.) As I say in the post, we’re incredibly excited, and a bit scared. It’s going to be an amazing [...]

Greetings, eBay recently launched their Bid Assistant, which acts similarly to JBidwatcher’s Multisniping feature, except without the sniping. None the less, it’s good to see them adding features JBidwatcher had six years ago. Being serious for a moment, I’m actually really happy to see them do this. It’s a straightforward feature, and one they should [...]

Greetings, I’ve put up the latest version, 1.0.1 of JBidwatcher.  It’s mainly a bug fix release.  It includes a few new features towards better documentation, error messages, and recognition of eBay states, and a new (still completely optional) approach to the eBay affiliate idea. One of the important fixes has to do with a wording [...]

Greetings, A concerned user recently asked me how I was doing in the aftermath of the issue with eBay sales of JBidwatcher, specifically: You seemed pretty depressed about it in your post to the website. I was. There was a really bad week there, while I was dealing with all of it, back and forth, [...]