STILL ASKING TO VERIFY ACCT...WONT BID!!!

youngeekins · Guest

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Have tried to do the acct verification 4 times and still wont work. Still not able to snipe because of text/email verification block! I just purchased mirror service because Ive used Gixen for years without issue until the last month, Im still connected to the Gixen proxy and still am not able to snipe.

Please give me advice or look into this matter for me. I love Gixen and am a paying subscriber.

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

Are you saying that when you try to place a bid while directing your traffic via the Gixen proxy, you always get a verification screen and even after going through that process Ebay still asks you to verify your account the next time you try to place a test bid?
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Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

You are confusing me now... You can bid manually via the Gixen proxy or you can bid manually when you direct your traffic direct from home to Ebay, i.e. not through the Gixen proxy?

...and every time both the Mirror and Main automated snipes from Gixen fail?... what status does Gixen give them after they fail on both the Main and Mirror?
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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7241

youngeekins, have you placed a manual bid through your browser while having the proxy on?

Also, if you haven't changed your ebay password since end of May, please do so, preferably while having Gixen proxy on. That should resolve the problem completely.

youngeekins · Guest

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7241

youngeekins, you still haven't answered - have you placed a manual bid through your browser while having the proxy on? If yes, while placing a bid in such a way, were you requested by ebay to complete the verification?

youngeekins · Guest

Guest · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:30 pm Post subject:

youngeekins · Guest

Just changed my password while on Gixen proxy...hoping for the best. Can I now get off the proxy?

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7241

You can, but there is no harm staying on it for a while. Only your ebay and Gixen traffic are routed through it, nothing else.

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:19 pm Post subject: \"Phone or Text Verification\"

I get that it's a free service, but I'm absolutely furious that a snipe just failed for an item that I've been waiting for to turn up on eBay for a long time: I'd have gladly paid double for the price it ended at.

Snipe failed because eBay wants phone or text verification? Huh? What does that mean? I have no email from eBay requesting this stuff, nor do I find anything under my eBay messages. I am really mad...

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7241

This happens on occassion, and it was a massive event today in the past few hours. You may not experience it from your home IP address, but Gixen does.

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:33 pm Post subject:

Hi--

So...what do I need to do? Does this mean that my scheduled snipe tomorrow will likely fail as well?

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 2:03 pm Post subject:

I keep getting the same message on Gixen

COULD NOT BID: PHONE OR TEXT VERIFICATION REQUESTED BY EBAY

This happened yesterday so I did the proxy setup with firefox but ebay just constantly kept asking me to enter a verification code over and over again.

I tried again with IE and it seemed to work. But today I have the same message from Gixen but weirdly I won the auction??

sheellah · Guest

This concerns auction #281416927803. I just had the same issue out of nowhere. COULD NOT BID: PHONE OR TEXT VERIFICATION REQUESTED BY EBAY. Gixen had placed a bid on an auction earlier today auction with no issues and I was outsniped.

Can these questions be answered for me - please!

1) Is this message coming from Gixen or Ebay?

2) Would your mirror service have helped and placed the bid?

3) Why do I have to fool around with proxies or a socks server if Ebay needs verification? Not good with that stuff. Can't I just give them the phone verification they want? How?

I am as confused as the other OP about this. Can you please tell us what went wrong and how to prevent it happening again? Is there an easier way to get things working agaqin. I need to depend on my snipes. Thank you!

SgtScorcho · Guest

I'm having the same problem. I won an auction, then an hour later lost out on a bid with this message: COULD NOT BID: PHONE OR TEXT VERIFICATION REQUESTED BY EBAY. I followed the instruction for using Gixen proxy server, but eBay will not allow me to make a manual bid through the proxy. I get either unending verification code entry pages from ebay, or "The page isn't redirecting properly" from Firefox.

Original item ID: 321495849494
Attempted manual bid through proxy item ID: 371122376964

Murphy · Guest

I too am experiencing the same problems as many other Gixen users have stated. Gixen is no longer making scheduled bids for me - it is failing the verification process.

I have followed the instructions for using the Gixen Proxy Server (around a dozen times), but this doesn't do anything. And it has worked for me in the past (around a month ago) without any problems. This time it is different, as if ebay is waging a war against the Gixen server.

While I am using the Gixen Proxy Server, ebay sends me to the "Enter a verification code to continue" page every time I wish to bid/confirm bid/check mail, see wish list, basically any page except the watch list. The problem is that no matter how many correct codes I enter, it keeps asking me to enter the verification code over and over with no end.

When I stop using the Gixen Proxy Server, I can use ebay normally, however, my scheduled Gixen bids still fail.

Any ideas?

Murphy · Guest

Added: I changed my password months ago and I just changed it today as well (losing all my programmed Gixen bids... argh!). This has not had any positive effect. The same problems remain.

thekozmicpig · Guest

Just tried to bid while connected to proxy, and it went through, no verification needed. Just to be safe, set a snipe for an item under current bid (to test if Gixen would get in, had zero interest in item) and well, I lost.

But because it was under asking price, and not verification.

Did you do anything Mario? Or did eBay do something?

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

Please note that these issues have been caused by actions at Ebay which may be beyond the control of what can be done here on Gixen as Mario mentions here:

http://www.gixen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6879
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Murphy · Guest

Just an update: after going through the ebay verification process ~200+ times, using the Gixen Proxy Server then *not* using the server, etc. and changing my password, I finally managed to aggravate ebay enough to request a phone/email verification, which I did.

Since then Gixen has been working (so far, so good).

Perhaps that is what needs to happen in order to exit the infinite captcha verification loop, but it's just a guess.

Adri · Guest

Just wondering if anyone can elaborate on the method of "Aggravating eBay enough" or if there is a button I can get eBay to verify me through so I get back to snipes. I have lost so many opportunities because quite frankly I lose track of time and I use gixen to places bids when I see stuff since I never remember to come back to actually place a manual bid. I REALLY hope this either solves instantly or else by some miracle I remember to come back in 2 days to bid on my item LOL.

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

Please be patient and for updates from Mario, please now monitor this thread:

http://www.gixen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6885
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Tickedoff · Guest

I don't know what they're trying to accomplish but Ebay is costing themselves lots of money and pissing me off at the same time. Probably half a dozen of my snipes that would've gone through have not so far

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

This kind of thing is usually the result of sniping services getting caught out by Ebay implementing anti fraud measures that consequently get triggered by the sort of activity that a legitimate sniping site has to perform in order to place bids on behalf of it's users.

It is probably not Ebays' intention to mess up such sites but, unfortunately, they seem to have done it all too frequently lately.
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Tickedoff · Guest

Is there a pattern to all this? I set most of my snipes for Sunday night auctions and I'm wondering if I'm going to be wasting my time. Some are getting through some are not

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7928 Location: Bristol, UK

I'm sure if there is a pattern Mario will spot it... that will be part of his investigation as to what can be done to reduce the risk of it happening again... as he says elsewhere, there is a certain amount of guesswork involved in detecting just what activity sets Ebay off on its blocking... once a pattern or a behaviour can be identified then obviously Mario makes the changes in order to prevent that circumstance happening again.

To a certain extent it is a black art... but, fortunately, one that Mario has indulged in before so there is some hope he will be able to get to the bottom of it again this time.
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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7241

Please continue following this issue at http://www.gixen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23586#23586

I will do my best to explain what happened yesterday and today.