Swoopo on Multiple Devices
A Swoopo Manual owner noticed something about the Swoopo system that bears mentioning. I’ll let him tell the tale:
Hi Matt,
Thanks so much for the information, which is very helpful. I’ve encountered one weird problem twice when bidding on an auction from both my laptop and my iPhone at the same time. Attached please see a screenshot of the weird error message. “Sorry – Swoopo has had a problem. We’re letting our techies know right now, who’ll work on getting this fixed”. At this point, I couldn’t even log on to my account or purchase any bids.
Is this because I bid from two different IPs? The reason I’m use both laptop and iPhone is that sometimes our wireless network connection is not very stable. Would this be a trigger that Swoopo blocks my account temporarily for a review or something? Have any other members ever got this error message? Please let me know your thoughts on this.
Thanks so much,
[name redacted]
I tried to replicate this user’s experience but wasn’t able to. However, I think it might not cause problems unless you’re casting bids from one or both devices. It’s also unclear at this point if Swoopo’s system genuinely has technical issues with multiple sign-ins or if they’re preventing them intentionally in a passive agressive manner.
If you’re bidding on Swoopo and need to switch computers, or if you have a secondary device you’re using to track other auctions, I’d suggest you sign in to only one at a time to avoid any possible IP address conflicts.
Note: This advice pertains only to signing into Swoopo’s website. This does not affect your ability to sign-in or use Swoopo Analytics.
If you have any more information on this issue, let us hear about it in the comments.
Update (5.17.10): This same user writes in again to note that this is not an issue of IP address conflict. Swoopo will block simultaneous log-ins from bidding even on the same device. Just stick to a single log-in and you’ll be fine!
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