I'm trying to use the GetPublicAlerts call of the ClientAlerts API to poll for changes to the price of Fixed Price Items. My calls are successful, however they never return any data, even though I can see the price has changed on eBay.com.
Example response:{"Timestamp":"2009-11-16T12:37:23.022Z","Ack":"Success","Build":"E643_CORE_BUNDLED_10272615_R1","Version":"643","Content":[]}
Can anybody confirm whether or not changes to the price of a fixed price item listing can be detected using Client Alerts API?
Cheers.
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Re: ClientAlerts API: PriceChanged event raised for Fixed Price Items?
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Nov 17, 2009 5:04 AM
The event is PriceChange (according to the docs), not PriceChanged. I'm not sure if that reflects your request or not, but you called it PriceChanged in your post.
I'm actually struggling to get any PriceChange event at all for any item, even when a bid is placed on the item. Are you sure PriceChange works at all?
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Re: ClientAlerts API: PriceChanged event raised for Fixed Price Items?
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Nov 17, 2009 7:05 AM
Come to think of it, whilst playing with the samples, they never did show a PriceChange event, although this may be because the regular auction item I was tracking did not change in price. I definitely did get an ItemEnded event when a regular auction ended though, so the API cannot be totally broken.
I did read elsewhere that ClientAlerts does *not* raise an ItemEnded event when a fixed price item ends, which leads me to suspect that no PriceChange event is raised for fixed item listings, either.
Somebody, please correct me if I am wrong!
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Re: ClientAlerts API: PriceChanged event raised for Fixed Price Items?
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Nov 19, 2009 9:40 AM
I had a similiar problem. I was pointing the request to the sandbox enviroment, once I changed it to http://clientalerts.ebay.com/ws/ecasvc/ClientAlerts? and used a real itemID all worked fine! Hope this helps
