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EBay's "CAPTCHA" rears it's ugly head again

Supposedly, eBay claimed they fixed this issue a few years ago. I've now been bit by the "CAPTCHA" bug 3 times this week. I am worried about listing coins at auction as the snipe bids may be blocked. It's a big enough risk that a listing may be missed, but now there's another risk that eBay may block last second bids:

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ArizonaRareCoins

    Have you tried clearing cache, cookies, all unneeded temp/history files, and restarting browser and/or computer?

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 5, 2019 9:31PM

    That's really unusual. I've actually never seen it.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • ArizonaRareCoinsArizonaRareCoins Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:
    @ArizonaRareCoins

    Have you tried clearing cache, cookies, all unneeded temp/history files, and restarting browser and/or computer?

    The bids actually come from gavelsnipe's server. I was told the "CAPTCHA" is randomly initiated by eBay to make sure the bid is coming from a person and not a computer.......This is what really pissed me off, of course it's coming from a computer, that's what a sniping program is. EBay claims they had fixed this issue a few years ago . They said they'd look into it. I've not had a CAPTCHA block this week, hopefully they fixed it.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,560 ✭✭✭✭✭

    one of the many reasons to have an auction start price that matches your min. sell price or to list buy it now.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have never encountered that on ebay..... and had several transactions there this past week. Cheers, RickO

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has never affected my using the Gixen sniper.

  • kbbpllkbbpll Posts: 542 ✭✭✭✭

    I guess people are still into the whole sniping thing. As a bidder, I just set the max I'm willing to pay and forget it. All the sniping bots and shill bidders can have at it if it goes past what I think it's worth.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭

    first time ive seen that one I wont go looking for it any time soon either by the looks of it

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