The POINT-AGAPE Survey: Comparing Automated Searches of Microlensing Events toward M31 Searching for microlensing in M31 using automated superpixel surveys raises a number of difficulties which are not present in more conventional techniques. Here we focus on the problem that the list of microlensing candidates is sensitive to the selection criteria or ``cuts'' imposed and some subjectivity is involved in this.submitted to MNRAS