christianp3
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Just had my first data charges, it was down to a a bit of bot testing yesterday. Must have accidentally called GMPC too many times. Swines! OK, so it's only £1.11, but it's the principle...
So, a word of warning - be careful when testing!
"You incurred a charge in relation to usage on 27th of May of £1.11. We have not debited your account today. We want you to avoid being charged in future." (Yeah right!)
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Does that mean they've wavered the fee as it's your first "offence"?
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Good question. It sounds like they might. I guess we'll see tomorrow!
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Just checked my account; they haven't taken the money so looks like they've waived it...what fine chaps they are!
Just shows you how much trouble you could get in, with a reckless bot going rampant,
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I haven't had any charges yet (not that I'm aware of), I imagine it'd be easy to get some though. e.g. yesterday I adjusted a bot and fired it up - though I neglected to terminate the original copy that was already running - which could have been bad had it been a data greedy bot.
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I don't really understand the logic for setting the charges so high. Is anyone likely to have a strategy so dependent on fast access to data that it's worth paying them? If not, BF are effectively just limiting access to 20 transactions per second - in which case why not implement it that way and save everyone a lot of trouble? They obviously already have the technology to limit access to N transactions per second, because they use it on the free API.
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