AuctionSieve Changelog

What's new in AuctionSieve 3.0.5

Jun 30, 2020
  • Fix for New Today timeframe
  • The app is now notarized for macOS 10.15 Catalina – 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 (Jan 29, 2020)

  • Fix to remove empty ‘Sponsored’ item
  • Fix for blank images
  • Fix for blank hover images
  • Fix for New Today time-frame (making it ignore Sponsored items)

New in AuctionSieve 3.0.2 (Jan 29, 2020)

  • Fix for Watchlist/Price History info being incorrect

New in AuctionSieve 3.0.1 (Jan 29, 2020)

  • 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 – thanks Rhett!

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 7, 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 (Jan 6, 2017)

  • 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 9, 2016)

  • 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 2.7.5 (May 6, 2016)

  • Now displays placeholders for images so list doesn’t keep changing in size

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 24, 2014)

  • 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 – thanks to David Cant
  • fix for eBay changes – ignoring ‘More items related to’ – thanks Andrew Marchant and nose6767
  • cleans up tmp files – thanks Ulf Hartwig

New in AuctionSieve 2.6.2 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • Fixes for eBay changes:
  • ‘New Today’ searches weren’t working properly
  • ‘Preferred Location’ searches (eg European Union) likewise
  • Items with price ranges (ebay UK only?) weren’t handled well. I’ve made AuctionSieve display the lowest value.
  • From 2.6.1, fixes for some searches retrieving only 50 results, time frames not working and blank watchlist columns
  • New features:
  • Export and Import
  • New search option ‘Best Offer’
  • New Shortcut keystrokes
  • Latest News and Click-able links

New in AuctionSieve 2.6.0 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Many fixes for eBay changes – display of price/time left etc.
  • New features:
  • colored tabs – red when retrieving, green when done
  • when getting auctions, tabs now show number of items retrieved out of total available
  • tabs now show filtered item count instead of total count
  • 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

New in AuctionSieve 2.5.7 (Dec 5, 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 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixes for eBay UK
  • Fix for missing last item – sometimes only got 49 results per page
  • Fixes a problem saving the watchlist when a user’s temp directory is on a different volume
  • New features:
  • Uses time of ‘Unknown’ for BINs where time left is not shown in search results
  • Made the Manage Sieves dialog bigger

New in AuctionSieve 2.5.5 (Dec 20, 2010)

  • Due to some eBay changes, fixed the following:
  • eBay Spain now works again
  • sometimes the final result on a page would be missed – now fixed
  • Results displayed as they’re downloaded - Up until now, whenever you’ve clicked “Get auctions”, you’ve had to wait for all the pages of results to download before any of them displayed. Not any more!
  • Now, results are displayed as they’re downloaded, so you can start going through the list immediately. This is a great time saver.

New in AuctionSieve 2.5.4 (Nov 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 2.5.2 (Aug 28, 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 24, 2010)

  • New icon!
  • Now AuctionSieve requires Java 1.5.

New in AuctionSieve 2.1.2 (May 17, 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 (Apr 22, 2010)

  • fixes for eBay changes
  • fix to get all results reliably
  • fix for StackOverFlowException and NullPointerException when getting watchlist item info

New in AuctionSieve 2.0.1 (Feb 8, 2010)

  • New Preferred Location option - especially handy for Europeans.
  • New 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.
  • 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 2.0.0 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • Not a major update.
  • Fix for issue getting "new today" items.
  • Fix for a bug which meant AuctionSieve sometimes missed the last item in a search result

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 (Sep 15, 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.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.7 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • Fix for eBay change - was only getting 1 page of results.
  • Option to use old browser launching method to prevent hard crashing on Vista.
  • Select Tools->Options->Browser->Use Old Skool launcher.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.6 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • Fixes for new eBay pages.
  • Fix for price history "Email to a friend" error.
  • Fix for Vista - view links should now work reliably!
  • Now stores tmp files in a different place on Mac OSX.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.5 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • Fix for NumberFormatException - eBay page changes.
  • Fix for some European sites only returning 50 results.
  • Fix for some missing prices when some of the items are from foreign countries.
  • Added support for eBay Singapore.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.4 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • A heap of fixes for eBay changes no titles/prices/etc
  • Fix for '503' server errors
  • Fix 'Including' stores didn't always work properly (and typo fix)
  • Help for low disk space if sieve info is lost, at least it will load up the sieve as unkown with all catch/trash words
  • Fix excluded sellers now being taken into account on new eBay pages
  • Fix to make sure watchlist item details retrieved correctly
  • Fix to ignore additional 'similar items' results
  • Fix to handle empty search terms (put in a space or blank and it will retrieve basically everything)
  • Fix for some dodgy BIN displays
  • Change can no longer specify multiple categories to search
  • WARNING: Specifying multiple categories in a search sieve is no longer reliable! Ebay's new search pages don't handle the option. The most reliable thing to do is only specify one category and add an extra search for each extra category you want to search.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.2 (Aug 11, 2008)

  • A heap of fixes for eBay changes.

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.1 (Jun 23, 2008)

  • new browser launching code (mainly for Vista)
  • search regular auctions stores in the one search
  • search Classified ads and Sale items
  • international characters now displayed correctly (umlauts etc)
  • min/max price criteria now being used correctly for store searches
  • deleting sieves now works reliably
  • fix for ebay motors items titles now appear correctly in watchlist
  • fix to load up your default eBay site when viewing items
  • ignores extra results that ebay offers when there are 0 results
  • fixes for Italy and Spain problems

New in AuctionSieve 1.9.0 (Apr 29, 2008)

  • exclude seller ids