min
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Post by min on Dec 23, 2014 10:44:06 GMT
I have found a methodology that allows me to sell again! 1. In the Sell Individually function. Set the number of items per page to 500 2. Click on the top of the loan Part ID column to order the list in ascending or descending order ( you may need to wait 30 seconds for this to happen). Then you can fairly easily page up and down the list to find the items you want to sell. The Accept terms function is still flaky sometimes you need to accept terms before it will show you have ticked the 'accept terms' box. Hopefully this helps. Laborious but works. Thanks. Another Flattened Conifer work round.
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Post by Steerpike on Dec 23, 2014 11:11:24 GMT
I wonder if FC feel any sense of shame when reading this thread? I continue to have display issues, freezes and bad links when using the FC site - truly awful Jack P Probably they are too busy working out when they will hit £.5 billion loans
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Post by longjohn on Dec 23, 2014 12:34:12 GMT
On the Sell tab I enter a loan number and click search. It always finds the first one.
In order to sell more I clear the search box and click search again. This returns my full list of parts.
I can then enter a different loan number and successfully search again.
John
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Post by mostlywrong on Dec 29, 2014 17:44:34 GMT
For a while now, I haven't noticed the Summary page accessing www.facebook.com whilst loading (as it used to) but I have just looked at my Transactions page and there it was: www.facebook.com along with Google and Twitter analytics. Now, I use Google and expect it to get everywhere, but Facebook and Twitter? I don't use either and they have never been accessed on this computer. So, what gives? Why is FC tying up desperately needed bandwidth by accessing their websites when I have nothing to do with them? I am running Win 7 and Firefox 34.0.5. MW |
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Dec 30, 2014 10:26:09 GMT
Google yes, Google analytics, of no use to man nor beast, so I fixed it in my 'hosts' file (not possible on a tablet, easy on a PC). Can't do the same for facebook as I might actually need it for something .. like you, I can't imagine why FC does. A bandwith eater, another thing to go wrong, and another potential security hole.
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min
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Post by min on Jan 5, 2015 17:15:01 GMT
Anyone else found that Flapping Coattails is very sloooooooooow this afternoon?
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Post by blender on Jan 5, 2015 17:23:42 GMT
Anyone else found that Flapping Coattails is very sloooooooooow this afternoon? Yes, I think they are having trouble getting the boiler up to pressure after the long break - wet coal perhaps. But it matters not because there is nothing of interest going on.
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Post by sl75 on Jan 5, 2015 17:46:03 GMT
Anyone else found that Flapping Coattails is very sloooooooooow this afternoon? The root cause seems to be that autobid has stalled [edit: or perhaps is operating correctly but very very slowly] This then leads to bid robots and manual bidders battling it out and making many thousands of bids each undercutting the top bid rate by a minimal margin, and thus an extremely high load on the site. If autobid were working properly (i.e. making bids on behalf of most autobid users who have funds available within a few minutes of the auction going live), the top rate on the auctions would already be much closer to market rate, leading to less frenetic bidding activity by bid robots and manual bidders, and thus less site load.
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Post by oldgrumpy on Jan 5, 2015 17:50:04 GMT
Took me quite a long time to withdraw some cash to fund the two offerings on SS. Repayments and sales had mounted up over the "holiday" period - rates currently on FC do not attract me.
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Post by blender on Jan 5, 2015 20:13:21 GMT
Anyone else found that Flapping Coattails is very sloooooooooow this afternoon? The root cause seems to be that autobid has stalled [edit: or perhaps is operating correctly but very very slowly] This then leads to bid robots and manual bidders battling it out and making many thousands of bids each undercutting the top bid rate by a minimal margin, and thus an extremely high load on the site. If autobid were working properly (i.e. making bids on behalf of most autobid users who have funds available within a few minutes of the auction going live), the top rate on the auctions would already be much closer to market rate, leading to less frenetic bidding activity by bid robots and manual bidders, and thus less site load. So you don't go with my wet coal theory? I can see the bots and some flippers on the new loans hoping to catch some early closers, but I cannot see many manual bidders joining in with so few loans and low rates (grumpy for example has just gone to shake a different tree, and I have bid nothing). If the result of Autobid taking a break is that lenders get bad gateways or have very long waits trying to log in, then that does not say much for system resilience.
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Post by sl75 on Jan 5, 2015 20:58:23 GMT
So you don't go with my wet coal theory? I can see the bots and some flippers on the new loans hoping to catch some early closers, but I cannot see many manual bidders joining in with so few loans and low rates ... The rates on the new loans are not (yet) low due to the lack of autobids - precisely why there seem to be so many robot and manual bids on those loans right now. When the auctions are dominated by robots that are programmed to undercut the top rate by only 0.1% (and manual bidders following a similar process), it takes an awful lot of bids to reduce the auction rate to anything close to market rates. If autobid had been working properly, the current rates would have been achieved with a tiny fraction of the number of bids actually present. FC should of course have their systems scaled appropriately for the level of activity that they generate. The lack of autobid activity seems only to have exacerbated that problem, causing non-autobid users to generate far more activity than normal.
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Post by is on Jan 6, 2015 0:59:37 GMT
The autobid is probably OK but since there are still very few loans vs. cash available, it is locked out by manual fills of loans to 100% within minutes of them being listed, as you would expect in such situation.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 9:28:41 GMT
The balence of supply and demand is against us lenders at the moment, however I do struggle to understand why some players are still in the game at all. Yesterday I watched an A+ £20k get hammered from 15% to 8% in 4 minutes. Mainly driven by two robot bidders who were firing off streams of £500 bids at a time. I still have no idea why they did it, as one ended up with nothing and the other got a bunch of 8% bids (what is the point of having to work so hard for 8% gross of fees and debt?). They could have picked up loads of mortgage's last month with no effort for the same income. They still could, by funding a wind turbine or two over on AC and for no fees. Very odd I guess it shows that while there are lenders who don't understand the market and give us some nice % there are borrowers who don't understand the market and give us poor %. All very odd and instructional. Until demand picks up I'm back in the stock market.  |
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Post by sl75 on Jan 6, 2015 10:12:07 GMT
The autobid is probably OK but since there are still very few loans vs. cash available, it is locked out by manual fills of loans to 100% within minutes of them being listed, as you would expect in such situation. Autobid most certainly doesn't get locked out when auctions are filled to 100% (although it may appear that way when other auctions are available which are not yet 100% funded, as it preferentially funds those, and many autobid users will usually have only enough funds to bid on a couple of auctions at a time). If you look at the recent auctions, there've been a constant stream of bids from many different users at the minimum bid rate (and indeed across other rates) all through the wee small hours overnight, almost certainly attributable to autobid, and the users seeking unusually high rates have been mostly squeezed out (around £10k at the top bid rate, compared to £30k+ yesterday). It's simply operating very slowly. Maybe the slow autobid could be designed as a deliberate strategy on the part of FC in order to leave open the possibility that a borrower may accept the loan before most autobid users have had a chance to bid on it (thus rewarding those who bid early at high rates, and giving them an incentive to keep doing so rather than remove their funds from the FC system). If so, it's a strategy that comes at the cost of huge additional load on the system as several of those users battle it out to be top of the pile...
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Post by fasty on Jan 6, 2015 14:41:30 GMT
Fumbling Circus seems to have gone flakey again.
Selecting the "Sell" tab now issues me a warning that I have got Autobid switched ON (although that had better be 100% wrong!!)
Then trying to access either the "Loan Parts Sold" or "Loan parts for sale" tab produces nothing more than headings.
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