Buying now does not appear to end an auction

Pirate45 · February 17th, 2009, 09:25 AM

Chuck,

Following my upgrade a couple of weeks ago to the latest version, I have had more than one user tell me that someone "buying it now" did not cause the auction to end.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Chuck S · February 17th, 2009, 09:37 AM

Does the ad have multiple quantities?

Essentially if it has quantities to sell it is not expired only if it is only 1 quantity.

Pirate45 · February 17th, 2009, 09:39 AM

Exactly, but that was not the case. It was a single item.

Chuck S · February 17th, 2009, 09:58 AM

Well I checked out the code and see nothing wrong in payment_verification.php

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

If quantity is 1 then status is updated as long as the payment if verified.

Pirate45 · February 17th, 2009, 10:03 AM

Ok, well, I don't know what to say. I guess we will just have to watch them and try to manually kill them if they are purchased.

Thanks.

Chuck S · February 17th, 2009, 10:07 AM

You will have to keep an eye on it maybe if it happens pass along the data to assist. In my testing with payment verification I dont see an issue off hand here.

Pirate45 · February 20th, 2009, 10:25 PM

Chuck,

Still having problems. And, to make matters worse, when someone "buys it now" from an auction, the person who was previously the high bidder is getting an e-mail saying that they won!

Chuck S · February 21st, 2009, 08:33 AM

I would have to check that out and let you know what I find.

Pirate45 · February 21st, 2009, 09:34 AM

Okay, do you need some information from me?

Chuck S · February 21st, 2009, 09:24 PM

Yes sure you can send server info url and admin login my way through the site contact us link in the header.

Chuck S · February 23rd, 2009, 05:40 PM

I am not seeing anything wrong in the code there. The user should get an email as well as the seller if there ad/auction has been purchased. Now if its quantities then of course the ad or auction does not exist just the quantity gets reduced.

If you have more specific information as to the nature of what you think is wrong that would help as well so I can explain how things are suppose to work.

Now if you have a link to the phpmyadmin on the server so I can look up purchases and compare the products table information that would help alot.

Pirate45 · March 1st, 2009, 01:48 PM

Chuck,

I have been away for a few days. The quantities are 1 but as I indicated, when it is bought now, the former high bidder gets an e-mail telling them they have won.

So you need access to phpmyadmin next?

Chuck S · March 1st, 2009, 02:55 PM

I would need to see whats in the database however no bidding emails are send out on a buy it now purchase so thats the confusing part here.

The only thing that can send out a winning bidder email is the sendnotice expiration script and if the poster themselves ends there auction

This is the whole buyer id of code

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Make sure yours matches what is posted here

Yes I would need more information about your issue database etc to comment more. This whole process was extensively tested and no users have posted problems since the release of 3.0 and the new ipn verification.

Pirate45 · March 2nd, 2009, 08:14 AM

Chuck,

I have not changed the code at all so whatever is "out of the box" is what it is on our site.

I asked one of my moderators that use the classifieds a lot to make a list of issues we are having and here is what he came up with:

1. When a reserve price is set and the auction ends. The listing says the auction has closed, but when you close the auction manually the system sends a win notice to the highest bidder that did not meet the reserve price.

2. No way to cancel bids/end listing.

3. Reserve price can't be edited. (even with no bids on item)

4. Reserve and Buy it Now price should not be one in the same.

5. When the Buy it Now is used, The auction does not end automatically. And when you close the auction, Win notices are sent to the high bidders.

Some of these things may be by design but this is what seems to be the issues that are the source of our problems.

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 10:17 AM

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1. When a reserve price is set and the auction ends. The listing says the auction has closed, but when you close the auction manually the system sends a win notice to the highest bidder that did not meet the reserve price.

That would be correct action here. Highest bid and reserve have nothing to do with each other. Reserve is something strictly used for BUY IT NOW which it says when you upload an auction. If you have an auction and someone buys it now then the reserve is used because thats the price the seller has put to sell it for outside an auction. If the seller ends there auction they are effectively ending there auction with the highest bidders amount. The bidder has not agreed to a reserve amount. He has bid his bid amount and you ending the auction accept that amount. I beleive ebays works on this same principle.

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2. No way to cancel bids/end listing.

You can delete bids by viewing the bid history as an admin. Ending Listing I beleive would that not be END AUCTION.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Yes that is an oversight as I never added the ability to edit it but no biggy redownload the build and upload editproduct php and template.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Reserve is the buy it now price and this is explained when a seller places the ad. We added this feature right from ebay so its working as expected and coded.

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5. When the Buy it Now is used, The auction does not end automatically. And when you close the auction, Win notices are sent to the high bidders.

The payment verification script does not send high bid notices at all ever so its not sending out high bid notices. High bid notices are sent out two ways. If you hit close an auction through the script your sending the emails doing that.

1. You end an auction explained above.

2. You have the cron task setup to expire auctions that are over yes a winning email is sent and an auction is ended.

As far as payment verification for it to work correctly and I see nothing in the code we explained when 3.0 was released it uses paypal IPN service. If nothing is ended I would suspect the information is not coming back to your server. In your paypal setup under IPN there is a box where you enter the full url to any IPN script that recieves paypal data. Have you entered your payment_verification.php script url under there?

Pirate45 · March 2nd, 2009, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Reserve is the buy it now price and this is explained when a seller places the ad. We added this feature right from ebay so its working as expected and coded.

Chuck,

Trying to divide some of this up and digest it.

On eBay reserve and buy it now are not the same thing/price.

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 01:46 PM

Okay well it should explain how things operate.

This is what a user sees on upload it really does not matter what we call the variable in the actual program.

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If this is an auction you may enter a reserve price to allow users to buy the product and end your auction. (Numbers only!)::

quite self explanatory I think. Then when a user views the auction they see BUY IT NOW PRICE

Omegatron Classifieds - Test Auction

The way things display is simply how this option was thought up based on multiple user feedback in a prior beta. Remember your free to change wording how you wish in Admin => Edit Language if you personally have any problems with wording.

Chuck S · March 2nd, 2009, 01:49 PM

By the way buddy I did add shipping to the new BETA

http://www.photopost.com/forum/photo...02-2009-a.html