Big Ebay Fail last night

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Yes....both times was Ebay kicking off the sniping services. However, with the vast majority of people who snipe versus people who place "regular" bids on Ebay, maybe the outcome would have been the same, whether they blocked sniping software or just shut down the whole auction. Either way, it is a horrible situation for Ebay to put sellers through, and they should have some sort of culpability in what transpired.

Agreed ( but I hope your not holding your breath)

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

Agreed ( but I hope your not holding your breath)

Oh, I'm not...lucky for me, I didn't have any super duper high end/rare stuff ending with the snafu hit. It affected a couple of my items, but they were already at prices I could live with, so even though they didn't get bid up at the end, I'm still cool with it. It teaches me that maybe if I see something I want, I should make a "normal" play for it instead of relying so heavily on a sniping service.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Many sellers who had listings ending during this time frame lost a lot of revenue due to the typical last minute surge in bidding....I had 3 items I was going to "manually" snipe and was not able to and each item finished well below their "normal" value.

For many of these sellers who lost out on the necessary/expected late bidding last evening, they were probably lucky to break even (at best), but more than likely were in the red on their items as those last few bids is where the profit comes from.

[slinger23]

Correct me if I am wrong, but back in the day, if eBay knew there was a glitch occuring on their system, they would extend the auction by 24 hours. I vaguely remember something like that way back then. I am imagining this, or didn't it occur?

[TanksAndSpartans]

Both my WatchList and Purchase history were gone last night and back today - site was also loading very slow, but still searchable. I wasn't bidding or selling and would have forgotten were it not for this thread.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by slinger23

Correct me if I am wrong, but back in the day, if eBay knew there was a glitch occuring on their system, they would extend the auction by 24 hours. I vaguely remember something like that way back then. I am imagining this, or didn't it occur?

Yes, it's been a long time since they did that, probably before they became a shareholder held company, but they did do this once upon a time.