Frequently Asked Questions
| What is a RSS feed? | |||
| A RSS feed is commonly used today as a way to get a quick summary of a site. The easiest example is a news sites. New sites use RSS feeds
to provide a summary, and link to their articles. People that subscribe to the news site's RSS feed see the article in their news reader of choice, and can decide if it's worth their time from the description.
When you subscribe to many different RSS feeds, it allows you to save time by giving you a one stop shop for every site you want updates on. If you want a more in depth definition of RSS feeds it can be found here at Wikipedia. | ^top | ||
| What is the difference between the Item RSS feeds and the Status RSS feeds | |||
| RSS feeds are be using more and more in today's new internet pages. Companies like Google and Yahoo! are letting you integrate them into a customized homepage. Firefox lets you use RSS feeds as something called Live
Bookmarks. In the case of the eBay RSS feed, it will give you updated links to all the items you're currently bidding on, watching, or selling! Many blogs will allow you to add RSS modules to the side of your page also. Here are just a few examples of what you can do: | ^top | ||
| Now that I know what RSS feeds are, what can I do with them? | |||
| The Status RSS feeds provide you with the current status of the item (Current Price and bids) and also produce new news items any time the price changes.
The item RSS feed only provides the static data (Starting price) and only shows currently active items. | ^top | ||
| What is an OSX Widget? | |||
| A Dashboard OSX widget is a concept introduced in OSX 10.4 Tiger. It is basically a mini application that is always running in the background. It can be quickly accessed by using the f12 key by default. Check out Apple more details. | ^top | ||
| What is a Yahoo! Widget? | |||
| The Yahoo! widget engine (aka Konfabulator) was an engine created for both Windows XP, and OSX to support widgets. More details about Yahoo! Widgets can be found at the Yahoo! Widgets site. | ^top | ||
| Does AuctionMonitor.net store my eBay password? | |||
| No, AuctionMonitor.net does not store a user's eBay password. Instead AuctionMonitor.net is part of the eBay Developers Program. When you link an eBay account to AuctionMonitor.net,
we direct you to the eBay site so that we can receive authorization from eBay to retrieve your "My eBay" transaction information. By using the developers program, AuctionMonitor.net will not need your eBay password to retrieve your "My eBay" information. Which makes AuctionMonitor.net both safe and easy to use! | ^top | ||
| Does my AuctionMonitor.net Username and Password need to be the same as eBay? | |||
| No, in fact we suggest that you make it DIFFERENT from your eBay username and password. | ^top | ||
| I need help adding an RSS to the personalized Google Page! | |||
| All details along with Screenshots for the adding the eBay RSS feed to your personalized Google page can be found here. | ^top | ||
| My Yahoo! is confusing! Can you help me add my RSS feed to it? | |||
| Screenshots and detailed instructions on how to add your eBay RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" page can be found here. | ^top | ||
| What is Netvibes? | |||
| See screenshots and get detailed instructions on how to add your eBay RSS feed to the Netvibes homepage here. | ^top | ||
| How can you do this for FREE? | |||
| AuctionMonitor.net is part of the eBay Affiliate network tracks clicks coming from my application and pays me accordingly. | ^top | ||
| How does AuctionMonitor.net work? | |||
You will have to go through these steps to set up an account.
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| I can't link my eBay account, the page looks like it isn't working. What should I do? | |||
| To allow us to offer this server for all of our customers for free
AuctionMonitor.net is part of the eBay affiliate program
(http://affiliates.ebay.com/).
Most likely you have some kind of program up and running that blocks
"Commision Junction" links (This is the provider that eBay uses for it's
affiliate program). If you have replaced your "HOST" file, that would
also cause it. Here is where your host file will be located. Windows 95/98/ME: C:\WINDOWS\hosts Windows XP Home/Pro: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows NT/2000: C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Linux: /etc/hosts MacOS 8 and 9: System Folder: Preferences: Hosts MacOSX: Open Finder, click "Go->Go to folder" type in /etc and open the "HOSTS" file with Text Edit On windows: Open it up with notepad, and you should see something like this: # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost On OSX, it will look something like this: # # Host Database # # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. ## 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhostThese are the default hosts file. If you have more then that listed, then you have a modified HOSTS file. To fix the modified hosts file locate the lines with the domains: www.anrdoezrs.net www.qksrv.net Put a # in front of it to comment it out. If your hosts file isn't modified, then it is most likely you have an ad blocker, popup blocker or other Internet security software blocking the server. To fix it, you can try disabling the software or reconfiguring it so that it does not block URLs from the following servers: www.anrdoezrs.net www.qksrv.net You may have to clear your cache after you disable the software for the changes to take effect. | ^top | ||
If you have any additional questions, please submit them to
faq@auctionmonitor.net.