Automatically Keep Track of Auctions Youâve Won
Maintain a permanent record of everything youâve ever purchased.
Since eBay keeps auctions on site only for about 90 days and lists them in My eBay for only 30 days, all bidders should maintain permanent, off-site records of the items theyâve purchased.
As long as you keep all email youâve received, as described in the Preface of this book, youâll always have records of the item numbers, titles, seller IDs and email addresses, and closing prices of the items youâve won. But this data is stored in a less-than-convenient format, and the descriptions arenât stored at all.
Hereâs a script that will automatically retrieve and store details for every auction youâve won:
#!/usr/bin/perl require 'ebay.pl'; $today = &formatdate(time); [1] $yesterday = &formatdate(time - 86400); [2] my $rsp = call_api({ Verb => 'GetBidderList', [3] DetailLevel => 32, UserId => $user_id, SiteId => $site_id, EndTimeFrom => $yesterday, EndTimeTo => $today, }); if ($rsp->{Errors}) { print_error($rsp); } else { foreach (@{$rsp->{BidderList}{Item}}) { my %i = %$_; ($highbidder, $title, $id) = @i{qw/HighBidderUserId Title Id/}; [4] if ((! -e "$localdir/$id") && ($highbidder eq $user_id)) { [5] my $rsp = call_api({ Verb => 'GetItem', [6] DetailLevel => 2, Id => $id }); if ($rsp->{Errors}) { print_error($rsp) } else { my %i = %{$rsp->{Item}[0]}; my ($price, $currency, $seller, $title, $description) = [7] @i{qw/CurrentPrice CurrencyId Seller Title Description/}; ...
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