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Gosh, does nobody poke around in this stuff except me?
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IMO yes, that or a large touch screen tablet. You need to be logged on and poised for action. Basically we are  suffering a random allocation by google .. personally I think I'd rather have had a random allocation by SS .. if shrapnel is an issue, then plan B would be to just pick someone out of the hat (containing evertone who would like some) every time there is a sale and give them first pop at it .. which is what recaptcha is doing (while definitely disadvantaging some members of the community). Even the new no/re captcha doesn't really float my boat, I'm afraid (I wonder if Chris is still lurking).

Doubtless someone will be along to disagree shortly, to tell us how they bough £40k worth from their nokia smartphone at 9pm last night. 8>.

They come and go just as quick for me, screen changes - click on loan page - enter an amount and watch the available drop to zero (or 1p) before I can tick the box............  at least now I think I may be able to snag something, last week with the bot's the available was often zero as the page opened. 

No, because they've block you, you Evil bot owner 

That is neat functionality btw you've mentioned earlier. I many times wished for "thumb down" icon near post (not necessarily sunspot ). Blocking user does the job partially but then other people respond so you still know what was said or just get confused because you loose context in the discussion.

Watch out. HAL turns evil if I remember well.

I think the simple answer is that there's been very little offered lately.  I'm at my PC much of the time, and I have a separate window open on the SS available loans page, and it isn't often that something pops up for sale.  I believe GSV3MIaC is using his advance technical skills to monitor the page and capture details so he can tell us periodically what's been happening.

The lack of SM activity at this time doesn't surprise me, though.  There's been no new loans for 11 days, so who's going to be wanting to sell anything?  If someone is wanting to diversify their portfolio, they'll sell only after they've bought.  And if there's nothing to buy, they'll not want to sell anything.  It's a bit of a vicious circle.  So the people selling would be those who want to take money out of SS -- to pay the Christmas bills, or whatever -- and the difficulty in increasing one's SS investment has to make people reluctant to take money out because they know how difficult it would be to put it back to work at SS.  (Aside from the SM, it's been possible to invest just £300 since PBL073 went live nearly a month ago.)

Hopefully SS will be able to make a few more loans available in the coming weeks, and we'll see some SM activity.

There has been about £6k changed hands since 13:00, almost all 13:09-13:18 today iirc, and it was all snapped up in <20 seconds per part. As the previous poster said, and as I said weeks ago before the bot wars, the real problem is lack of people selling (and lack of new loans .. heaven help us if any of the overdue ones actually repay). There is no way of encouraging anyone to sell (although recaptcha may have deterred some people from buying).