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Hi. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. It's working for me on (for example):

http://cgi.ebay.de/Guitar-Hero-World-Tour-Viel-...

If you could send me the address and a copy of the HTML source of an auction page on which it doesn't function, I'll be happy to try to fix it. My email address is tracy.poff@gmail.com.

Sorry, for the delay. I've been busy lately, and I still can't reproduce this problem. I've tried on lots of auctions on ebay.de and it works for me. As I mentioned above, without having an example of an auction that doesn't work, there's nothing I can do. If you'll send me the HTML source of a page containing an auction that doesn't work, as I requested above, I'll look at it. Sorry to be a little short with you, but if you won't follow my requests for a useful bug report, there's only so much time I can spend tying to fix something that doesn't appear to be broken on my end.

Sorry. I was busy leading up to Christmas and I've been ill since. I'll try to get to this soonish.

I've tried with nightlies. I've tried with betas. I've tried with various combinations of these with different versions of greasemonkey. I can't reproduce your problem.

You're not running firefox behind privoxy or anything else that could possibly mess with the pages, are you? You've tried with a clean profile with just greasemonkey and this script? I'm really not quite sure what could cause your problem.

However: I've sent you a test version (Unless I sent it to the wrong address. If you didn't get it, let me know and send me your correct email address.). If this version doesn't work, then whatever is causing the problem, it can't be my script. Good luck with it.

I've pushed version 0.4.0 with the changes in the testing version plus a new pattern for the page you described. Please test it and verify its functionality.

In fact, I do get the values by searching on the text like "Geben Sie mindestens EUR". The issue was that I restricted the search for such patterns to a certain block of code so I can be sure that the script can't be tricked by cunning sellers. The current version is very slightly less safe. If the script fails to match a maxbid (e.g. due to an unimplemented language/currency pair) and the seller includes a text string that it will match on (e.g. "Geben Sie mindestens EUR 5000,00") in their auction description, the new version will pick up the 'evil' value that the seller has placed, while the old version wouldn't be fooled by such a trick. The moral of the story is that you should be sure to verify your bid amount when using this tool, in case of evil sellers.

Of course, attacks targeting this particular script are unlikely, so it should be safe anyway, and in any case you must confirm your bids as usual. Should you notice the wrong amount getting entered in a box, though, you will know the cause, and please report the new pattern so it can be included in the script.

If you do find a new pattern and care to fix it yourself, you may feel free to submit your tested and verified pattern to me and I'll include it and give you credit for the addition.

I created a pattern based on the code you sent, but I see now that it's still not functioning correctly. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be picking up on the maxbid box when I use getElementsByName, and it really should be. Hmm.

I'm not sure what's the issue here. I'll think about this a little longer. Maybe I'll have to go ask advice somewhere. There may be some quirk of javascript I'm not familiar with. I'll let you know when I've figured it out, but I hope you can use the script on the pages on which it does function until then.

Provide me with a link to an auction it doesn't work on, and I can look into it. In particular, it only works for language/currency combinations that I've encountered, because the regex that finds the minimum bid must be tailored to fit each such pair.

Added support for pounds in English, and verified that it works on the link you provided.

Try the new version, 0.4.1, and let me know if you have any further problems.