FINISHLINE + JD SPORTS
INFORMATION
FNL and JD are two pretty good sites to bot. They have a few issues which are annoying but overall this two sites tend to get quite a-lot of stock and its pretty easy to get multiples on it.
Both FNL and JD release items in a similar fashion. They release via a queue system however often times this queue will have issues causing everyone to sit in something called a "perma-queue". This queue will not allow anyone to pass it for a pretty long time. These sites take good patience as the queue can last for hours before stock starts to flow out.
Both sites are pretty easy to setup for and don't take too much human interaction once you have started tasks. Below we will talk about the setup along with some tips on how to successfully cop.
SETUP
Keywords
As for your monitor input you will want to use the PID which consists of the Product ID, Sty and the Color ID. The formatting of this is dependent on your bot but in most cases its similar to the example below.
Item X: PID: prod795980,315122,111 | Style ID: 315122 | Color ID: 111
Monitor Input For Item X: prod795980,315122,111
The monitor input for FNL and JD will be posted in DreamCook before the drop. If for some reason it isn't, ask the staff or check your bots discord.
Delays
Due to the nature of these two sites queue system, low delays are not necessary. We suggest the following delays:
Monitor: 4444-5555ms
Retry/Error: 4444-5555ms
Start Time
Some bots differ but in general you will want to start tasks around 1-5 minutes before the drop
Proxies
Both sites ban proxies pretty hard so a good mix of ISP and Residential proxies is best. ISP's are ideal but you will want to run quite a few tasks so you will need residential proxies anyway so you can scale up your task count. Most ISP's will also not be able to checkout on both sites, they will wait in queue fine but when it comes to checking out they will be blocked therefore its paramount you use tried, tested and successful ISP's when it comes to FNL / JD.
Task Count
This is somewhat dependent on your proxies and Gmails. As both sites use ReCaptcha V3 you wont want to run too many tasks. We suggest around 30 tasks per harvester logged into a Gmail. The need for a high captcha score is similar to that of YS's system. However captchas will be talked about in the next section. As for actual task count it is pretty much solely dependent on how many high score Gmails you have. Ideally run as many tasks as you can as FNL and JD favours quantity similar to Footsites and YS.
Captchas
Briefly spoken about above, FNL and JD use ReCaptcha V3. Each task will request a V3 token. This will happen fast and you wont need to solve anything so you can run quite a-lot of tasks per Gmail. However you need to make sure that Gmail has a trust score of 0.7 or higher. If it is lower then you will not be able to checkout on the task that the low trust score V3 token as been sent too. So linking with task count, lets say you have 3, 0.7 or higher trust score Gmail accounts, you will want to open 3 harvesters and log the Gmails into the harvesters using the proxies you are farming on. Once you are logged in create roughly 10-30 tasks per harvester.
Extra Information
The main issue with these two sites is what is called the "FNL Loan" or the "JD Loan". There is a stigma of annoyance when it comes to these sites as they use a very frustrating system to charge you.
Both Finish Line and JD Sports will place an authorization hold on your credit card prior to checking if they have any stock. So if you notice that you are getting a lot of charges but no success in the bot, just know that those charges are a result of the authorization placed by the site and are often dropped within a few hours.
Finishline and JD will place an authorization hold on your card before it even checks if they have any stock left. This means if the product is OOS most of your tasks will still "checkout" and money will be deducted from your cards even if the item is fully OOS. These charges drop after a few hours but the issue is, if your botting multiple sites and you don't have much money in your account then a-lot of your money might get caught up in FNL / JD authorisation charges leaving you with no money left for other sites that are dropping. FNL and JD both usually drop at 10am EST and the queue can last for a-long time so ideally you will want to be fully done with other sites that are dropping so that if all your money gets caught up in authorisation charges it wont matter that much as the other sites will be finished. Unfortunately in most cases the FNL / JD queue will long before other sites such as Footsites have finished dropping.
This is something to take in mind when botting these sites, although they can both be very easy and profitable to bot they do have their negatives. The best way to "get around" this issue is to keep an eye on the Finishline checkout log and if you see checkouts flow in then start to slow down a-lot, stop your tasks the product is likely OOS and the rest of the drop will just be authorisation charges.
Some bots will log these authorisation charges as success which can be very confusing
Profiles
For more information on profiles and more specifically, FNL / JD jigging, checkout the corresponding jigging guide.
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