blender
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Post by blender on Nov 10, 2016 15:50:12 GMT
I must be getting old and boring. Getting rid at par of my D loans which have done 5 months or so and buying West Byfleet for a secure 9% net and an easy life. Time was when Fancy Circumcisions made a rate change I would be there to pounce on the tasty morsels.
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Post by betterthanworking on Nov 15, 2016 16:33:35 GMT
28440 just appeared. 'Ooh, an E' I thought. Quick as a flash I was on it. Unfortunately someone had forgotten to enter the rate, and it wouldn't accept my bids. I got the old 'please choose a rate' pop-up. Grrr.
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baldpate
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Post by baldpate on Nov 15, 2016 16:58:34 GMT
Charly the Chimp would do a better job of software testing than the motley shower they call an IT department
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Post by acky on Nov 15, 2016 17:34:04 GMT
28440 just appeared. 'Ooh, an E' I thought. Quick as a flash I was on it. Unfortunately someone had forgotten to enter the rate, and it wouldn't accept my bids. I got the old 'please choose a rate' pop-up. Grrr. Presumably the software rejected the rate of 21.9% as being 'out of permitted range' (aka 'technical error' as no humans could possibly be to blame)! When it was finally biddable it stuck around for 6 minutes - an extraordinarily long time for a small 'E'. I still missed it by 2 minutes though. What's happened to the bots that would have consumed this in milliseconds before? I see the loan has been selling quickly at 1.9% premium on SM - I'd have stuck out for 3% myself.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Nov 16, 2016 12:02:36 GMT
My own bot saw the defective web page ('no bid rate options listed') and bailed out, which is a shame because it was instructed to buy up to 10% and resell at 0.3% premium immediately.
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sl125
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Post by sl125 on Nov 18, 2016 16:02:09 GMT
That was rather frustrating to say the least... every time I refreshed the page I could see that some people were successfully managing to bid, but I was getting a blank value for the rate, so it wouldn't let me bid. Tried on Firefox, IE and Chrome and found the same problem. Hey ho!
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Nov 18, 2016 16:08:05 GMT
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. 8>.
As far as I can see, the whole loan must have been eaten by bots, all bypassing the normal bid form (which is, as you say, broken .. no options in the option list).
If you know what the allowed rate is (discernible higher up the page) you can just use your own JS or XMLHTTP calls, to fire in bids (at rates of up to 5 or 10 a second .. per login, so with multiple logins you can do much better).
Fear not, the whole lot will be on the SM at very reasonable markup as soon as I can get round to it.
Presumably someone has told / will tell.. FC about this nonsense, before all Es wind up going bot-wards.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Nov 18, 2016 16:14:16 GMT
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. 8>. As far as I can see, the whole loan must have been eaten by bots... I think you just did.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Nov 18, 2016 16:35:39 GMT
Well I put them up for sale at 1% premium and a certain cp*pp*r ate the lot. Obviously have to buy more or charge more or both. 8>.
Nobody else has listed any yet though - maybe they are actually holding them?
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gl51
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Post by gl51 on Nov 23, 2016 9:50:58 GMT
It seems that the bots are the only ones able to bid on E loans. Again with 28810 this morning - there for a good few minutes, while I am being barred from bidding because it's asking for a bid rate but preventing me from entering anything.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Nov 23, 2016 14:48:14 GMT
FC have been told about it on their own forum, and here (if they read here), but appear to have not fixed it (maybe have no interest in fixing it .. after all the loan got funded, and their autobid customers even got a look in for a change). And it's not even all bots .. ones that rely on automatically filling in the options box (the simpler kind) are going to be just as stuck as Joe-Human.
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bigfoot12
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Post by bigfoot12 on Nov 23, 2016 17:12:52 GMT
And it's not even all bots .. ones that rely on automatically filling in the options box (the simpler kind) are going to be just as stuck as Joe-Human. Too right! My assistant has been pretty useless recently. Originally written in 8 hours to provide me an auto invest function which should have been available by default. I have been very happy with it. And I have spent a lot more time on it since; it used to do a nice job of buying loans with cashback and putting them up for sale. But recently, even before the recent change in rates, it wouldn't even spot a 15k E had been on sale, and anything less than about 40k it would only get one or two bids of £40. It hasn't been able to buy any E's since the change and today it tried to buy some of the smaller D and got none. When they announced the rate change, I decided that I would use it as a spur to make some of the changes I have been planning, but now I'm not sure that it is worth it - lower rates at the front end, can't buy the back end. I think that there are other opportunities which will benefit from my time. A few minutes to patch some of the minimum rates and see what happens over the next few weeks.
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jamesc
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Post by jamesc on Nov 24, 2016 16:06:27 GMT
Just had an e mail from Finally Compliant to say the problem with e loan bidding is fixed
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Post by Butch Cassidy on Nov 24, 2016 16:30:37 GMT
Just had an e mail from Finally Compliant to say the problem with e loan bidding is fixed ... ... so that only those with bots can buy into them, manual bidders get the chance to pay between 1-3% premium on the SM moments later 
Nice of F*****g Cowboys to finally admit it.
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bigfoot12
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Post by bigfoot12 on Nov 24, 2016 20:56:04 GMT
Well at least those of us with 'simple' bots stand a chance now!
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