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Post by supernumerary on Jan 12, 2016 19:58:28 GMT
Well we exited saving stream yesterday and sold 30k plus. Glad it went to braver players than us. I am actually sad to read that. I don't fully understand the reason, why you have indicated that Saving Stream investors are brave, but good luck to you in the future.
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Post by sam i am on Jan 12, 2016 20:57:24 GMT
Well we exited saving stream yesterday and sold 30k plus. Glad it went to braver players than us. , if you exited around 5pm yesterday then I picked up around half of what was available including 10k in the Newmarket farm and 5k in Chelmsford storage. Thank you and good luck with wherever you take your hard earned savings. And I am not a bot even if my fast fingers have been accused of it on more than one occasion.
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Post by ablender on Jan 12, 2016 23:44:54 GMT
What a shame. I heard that d***e is taking 5 hundred and one milliseconds to buy a loan.  |
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Post by nick on Jan 13, 2016 0:22:39 GMT
I think they IP addresses if you ping/refresh to frequently in any given period. My IP address was blocked last week. I had two browsers refreshing at 5 sec intervals (5 sec was the highest refresh rate on the browser extension so having 2 on got me down to 2.5sec) and had accidentally left these running a day and a half - I use the browser to alert me to action and frantically press F5 to try to bag a part manually which I estimate I do 25% of the time if there is a flurry. In the afternoon of the second the day I noticed that I could no longer reach the website on any computer linked to my router, but had no problems reaching the website when tethering to my phone. I could only regain access by changing my IP address. I assume that my IP address was blocked as part of DDOS protection, although I wouldn't have though a 2/3 second refresh interval over 12-18 hrs would have triggered a block and would surely interfere with bots (unless they constantly change IP address).
Anyway, I've had enough trying to grab scraps manually, can anyone direct me to someone/somewhere who could write a bot? Alternatively, if anyone is looking to share the cost of commissioning a bot let me know.
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Post by tombraider on Jan 13, 2016 3:19:45 GMT
More suspicious activity, this time with slightly larger chunks and PBL006 12/01/2016 m*************3 £10.00 12/01/2016 m*************3 £170.00 12/01/2016 m*************3 £20.00 12/01/2016 T********t £20.00 12/01/2016 M**********2 £10.00 12/01/2016 T********t £10.00 12/01/2016 M**********2 £10.00 12/01/2016 T********t £10.00 12/01/2016 T********t £10.00 12/01/2016 M**********2 £10.00 This is just a snippet. I'm not sure what to make of the £170 purchase, but I watched the £10 purchases seemingly go back and forth for quite a while - some quickly, but others slowly. Fine tuning I suspect! T********t was actually me tying to invest £1000 in anything I can. i managed to invest £300 in total. I was watching the 330+ day remaining loans vanish in seconds the only ones that remained were the - day loans.... I work nights sometime so have a chance sometimes.....
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jan 13, 2016 14:40:28 GMT
I think they IP addresses if you ping/refresh to frequently in any given period. My IP address was blocked last week. I had two browsers refreshing at 5 sec intervals (5 sec was the highest refresh rate on the browser extension so having 2 on got me down to 2.5sec) and had accidentally left these running a day and a half - I use the browser to alert me to action and frantically press F5 to try to bag a part manually which I estimate I do 25% of the time if there is a flurry. In the afternoon of the second the day I noticed that I could no longer reach the website on any computer linked to my router, but had no problems reaching the website when tethering to my phone. I could only regain access by changing my IP address. I assume that my IP address was blocked as part of DDOS protection, although I wouldn't have though a 2/3 second refresh interval over 12-18 hrs would have triggered a block and would surely interfere with bots (unless they constantly change IP address). Anyway, I've had enough trying to grab scraps manually, can anyone direct me to someone/somewhere who could write a bot? Alternatively, if anyone is looking to share the cost of commissioning a bot let me know. You DO NOT NEED TO REFRESH THAT** PAGE MANUALLY .. it auto-refreshes whenever there is something for sale (checking every 3 seconds or so). If you refresh it by hitting F5, or by using a browser extension, you are hitting their server for 1000x the amount of data that you need, and you WILL get blocked by Cloudflare ('eventually' .. you will last a while before they decide you are a crawler bot or a DOS attacker). Also if you stay on the available loans page, I believe you will not get logged out (at least i have never been, so far), so you don't need a browser extension to refresh for that reason either. ** i.e. available loans, and I think individual loan pages may autorefresh too, not that I ever sit on one and wait.
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Post by mikes1531 on Jan 13, 2016 15:08:33 GMT
You DO NOT NEED TO REFRESH THAT** PAGE MANUALLY .. it auto-refreshes whenever there is something for sale (checking every 3 seconds or so). ** i.e. available loans... In my experience (Win7, Firefox), it works as described when a part is offered at a time when there are no other parts on offer, but it seems to take a lot longer than 3 seconds after that loan part is bought to go back to the "All loans are fully funded" display -- sometimes it seems to be a matter of minutes. Also, if there is something for sale and another part is offered as well, it doesn't seem to show that after just 3 seconds. The former situation is easy enough to detect by opening up the loan part buying page in another window, watching the amount available go to zero, and then seeing how long it takes before the available loans page updates. To test the latter situation, you have to put something up for sale while there's something else already for sale and, with the speed that parts are snapped up, that's not so easy to arrange.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 13, 2016 15:53:48 GMT
I'm not finding the refreshing of the available page terribly predictable or reliable, either.
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Post by Steerpike on Jan 13, 2016 16:05:39 GMT
It works for me if I disable uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger but I don't like Google tracking me so I will stick to the SS PM.
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Post by sunspot on Jan 14, 2016 2:22:56 GMT
Here we go again, with PBL018...
14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00
14/01/2016 r*******k £20.00
14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00
14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00
14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00
14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00
14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00
14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00
14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00
Someone could be offloading lots of chunks that are being snapped up by two lucky winners, but I have my doubts - it looks like ping-pong to me.
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Post by vmail on Jan 14, 2016 2:29:01 GMT
v*****k aka me is not a bot, I have to click on the I'm not a robot thing and then click on the random images, most of the time I have missed out because someone was faster than me, I'm sure if you checked the time of the sales you might see that it takes 15 to 20 seconds after clicking on those images
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Post by sunspot on Jan 14, 2016 3:00:40 GMT
I watched most of those go by, and as you say, they weren't super quick - not like before.
But that pattern of exactly two buyers sharing identically-sized spoils is exactly what I would expect to see during the testing phase of a new bot. And the captcha will certainly slow things down.
That said, at least one transaction appeared to fly by - although refresh delays might account for that.
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Post by vmail on Jan 14, 2016 3:17:10 GMT
Do you have another £600 that you can give me, but don't tell the bot because they are faster than me. I've only been able to buy £163.53 during the last 2 days and I have been trying from the 1st Jan. But do it in the afternoon as I need to sleep.
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Post by mikes1531 on Jan 14, 2016 4:21:11 GMT
Here we go again, with PBL018... 14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00 14/01/2016 r*******k £20.00 14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00 14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00 14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00 14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00 14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00 14/01/2016 v*****k £10.00 14/01/2016 r*******k £10.00 Someone could be offloading lots of chunks that are being snapped up by two lucky winners, but I have my doubts - it looks like ping-pong to me. : Sorry to disappoint you... I was the seller of those parts. I'm not a bot, I don't have a bot, and I wasn't testing a bot -- or anything else, for that matter. A couple days ago, I think someone was testing. They kept putting up £10 parts in PBL018. No bots seemed to be interested, and I found I could buy them, so I did. I think that I bought 11 of those £10 parts by the time the seller stopped selling. Since then, I've actually managed to buy a couple of larger parts of loans I'd rather hold, so I decided to sell these parts on. And being the cheapskate that I am, I decided to wait until after midnight so as to earn a penny of interest on each of those parts! I tried following the available parts links and solving the captchas to gain a bit of experience with those. In most cases, the available parts had been bought by the time I would have been in a position to click the Invest button, so if I had been trying to buy I don't think I would have been very successful. 
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Post by sunspot on Jan 14, 2016 9:28:59 GMT
Fair enough. In that case I apologise to all concerned.
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