eBay.ca as bas as ebay.com...
Stormstruck
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Wildwood <wildw...@pipeline.com> wrote in message
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> It's funny... I tried and tried to get the Canadian Mr Lister to
> work, but never got back any confirmations on the free listing day.
>
> Now (over 24 hours later), I'm getting the messages from ebay.ca that
> my colections are up and ready to approve, and the dates and times on
> them are 12-19 hours after they were uploaded.
>
> Between that and finally getting my e-mail notification today about
> the "free listing day on December 20th," I wonder if even the finest
> surgeons can get ebay's heads out of their collective asses.
>
> Bill
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Tony Sutton
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> I gave up on MrL and did it manually, took me 6 hours to upload 21
listings.
>
6 hours for 21 listing??
Does this include typing out the text?
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I think that a tentative maybe might be what is possibly called for.
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Stormstruck
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> "Stormstruck" <storms...@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3c2d...@usenet.per.paradox.net.au...
> > I gave up on MrL and did it manually, took me 6 hours to upload 21
> listings.
> >
>
> 6 hours for 21 listing??
>
> Does this include typing out the text?
>
Nope, I had it all set up in MrL and it wouldn't upload. So then I was
cutting and pasting everything, plus my ISP chose that day to g...o...
r..e...a..l..l..y... s..l...o....w. which didn't help. Ebay was slow
too, not surprisingly.
Between listings uploading i would do some other chore whilst waiting.
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Mr. Mike
>It's funny... I tried and tried to get the Canadian Mr Lister to
>work, but never got back any confirmations on the free listing day.
>
>Now (over 24 hours later), I'm getting the messages from ebay.ca that
>my colections are up and ready to approve, and the dates and times on
>them are 12-19 hours after they were uploaded.
It was very screwed up ... I got frustrated, kept listing the same thing over
and over because I thought it was broken, and then the next day got back
multiple copies of all this stuff! I did manage to edit it all down and posted
all the stuff shortly after the Canada free day began.
Mr. Mike
>Unfortunately, the earliest any of mine became available to approve
>was approximately 05:45 the next day, which was after the free day
>ended. :-(
I write to the Mr. Lister people at Ebay about the VERY slow response in the day
prior to Canada free day, and this is what they told me (may be of interest):
It may take several hours for our servers to post the collections you
send, especially during peak listing days. We suggest checking eBay
periodically to see if it is there, so you can review and approve the
collection. Occasionally people report that their collections take a
very long time to make it to the review page after sending them. I
understand how frustrating these delays can be, but there are ways to
help speed up the process.
Sometimes the traffic on eBay's servers is so high that large
collections are dumped out of the memory, or held for several hours
before processing. Our engineers are currently working to upgrade the
system, but until this upgrade is complete, you may still experience
delays.
To get around this problem, I can suggest two techniques. First, break
large collections into smaller ones. For example, it is better to send
5 collections of 10 items rather than one collection of 50 items.
Second, try to send the collections a couple of days before you want to
list them. That way, they will have reached the server by the time you
need them.
I know this is a workaround rather than a solution, but I hope it helps.