Big Ebay Fail last night

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Read my OP. The items were unreachable, either by bidders or the sniping services - they were defined to everyone as 'invalid item'.

My point was to Bobby , that he lost out when sniping services were disabled. I doubt Ebay raised much of an eyebrow. Last night direct bids thru EBay ( as well as snipes) were not working. You would think Ebay would be culpable when a bidder can't place direct bids using their auction software.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

My point was to Bobby , that he lost out when sniping services were disabled. I doubt Ebay raised much of an eyebrow. Last night direct bids thru EBay ( as well as snipes) were not working. You would think Ebay would be culpable when a bidder can't place direct bids using their auction software.

I thought you were referring to the fact that sniping didn't work during the ebay outage, which means he would have lost out no matter how he tried to bid. Some people here might not have realized that NOTHING worked during the ebay outage. By the way - I have only had one snipe fail ever (prior to last night) and it was because I changed my ebay password and forgot to change it with the sniping service.

Ebay doesn't consider themselves culpable for anything. They have no competition.

[Buythatcard]

I had my items scheduled to list at 10 PM EST. They all failed to list because system wasn't available. Finally, at 11:30, I was able to get them listed.

At the same time, I had several items ending at 10 PM Est which I lost a few dollars because of the glitch. I am sure that all sellers who had listings ending in that time period lost money.

But lower sales, also mean lower fees for eBay. So, they are the biggest losers last night. I would have thought they would extend all closing times by a few hours to help offset their losses. But they didn't. We all lose.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

But lower sales, also mean lower fees for eBay. So, they are the biggest losers last night. I would have thought they would extend all closing times by a few hours to help offset their losses. But they didn't. We all lose.

If the sellers as a whole lost $1,000,000 ebay lost 100-130K. But they are certainly the "biggest losers" on any night.

[Buythatcard]

Originally Posted by Runscott

If the sellers as a whole lost $1,000,000 ebay lost 100-130K. But they are certainly the "biggest losers" on any night.

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