2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
6:56 p.m.
Everyone is making a
big deal out of the fact that these subscription places update their
code as ebay changes the internals of their HTML, which to me sounds
like they are just plain doing it the hard way.
I think that hidden away in the Ebay user license is something about how
external services have to pay some sort of fee in order to interface with
Ebay. This is why there are not hoards of freeware versions of Power
Lister, and anooyingly to me, not a good Mac version. This is also
probably why free sniping programs are not forthcoming.
I suppose Ebay can invalidate bids or users that use services that do not
pay this fee.
Time to move off Ebay, folks.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org