Problem with ebay?
Paul Stevenson
last night, Sunday, there seemed to be a problem with ebay. I could not
upload auctions or get Turbolister and ebay to synchronise. This morning I
can get neither the log in pages of ebay.co.uk or ebay.com to work. Other
websites seem fine.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of problem?
Paul
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Peter Crosland
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> Hi all,
>
> last night, Sunday, there seemed to be a problem with ebay. I could not
> upload auctions or get Turbolister and ebay to synchronise. This morning
> I can get neither the log in pages of ebay.co.uk or ebay.com to work.
> Other websites seem fine.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this sort of problem?
Various weird things were happening. Try flushing your DNS cache
Peter Crosland
petrolcan
says...
>
> Hi all,
>
> last night, Sunday, there seemed to be a problem with ebay. I could not
> upload auctions or get Turbolister and ebay to synchronise. This morning I
> can get neither the log in pages of ebay.co.uk or ebay.com to work. Other
> websites seem fine.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this sort of problem?
All seems well this morning as far as I can see.
There was a problem over the weekend though.
Try clearing your history and cookies and then logging in again.
Fran
"Peter Crosland" <g6...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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There was a major worldwide screw up. Huge rows on the EBay boards.
RubberBiker
url.
petrolcan
@t18g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, RubberBiker says...
>
> 11.04 GMT Monday 23.11.2009, ebay not available, can't even ping the
> url.
As I said in another post, ebay.co.uk has been working fine, for me, all
morning.
Paul Stevenson
"petrolcan" <petrol...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Yup,
its back up for me also as of 12.38.
I was getting Firefox can not find server messages vv ebay.
Paul
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Niel J Humphreys
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Same here, the only problems I experienced this weekend were the ones on the
announcement board where searches and shops went down temporarily at one
point over the weekend.
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Niel J Humphreys
news:hedof8$eon$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
Mainly because no-one bothered reading the Ebay announcement about it.
petrolcan
Did you have any problems with your sales?
I did read in one announcement that ebay would compensate sellers but
I'm not quite sure how they would go about doing so.
Fran
"Niel J Humphreys" <ad...@sznzozwdzoznzczozmzpzuztzezrzs.co.uk> wrote in
message news:hee1lt$3g4$1...@energise.enta.net...
Said announcement was some hours after the problems started. And it's
screwed up many auction results.
Niel J Humphreys
No but I think this would only appertain to auction items ending during the
period when there was a fault. As I am 99% buy now it did not affect me.
Willy Eckerslyke
> Did you have any problems with your sales?
>
> I did read in one announcement that ebay would compensate sellers but
> I'm not quite sure how they would go about doing so.
A couple of my items ending around 9pm Sunday went for about 100 pounds
less that I'd expected (i.e. 50 each). I hadn't noticed any problems
myself, so shrugged it off and posted them this morning. But now that
I've read this thread, I'm feeling pretty annoyed.
"Rest assured that we will assess the economic impact of the problem and
will compensate sellers appropriately. The mechanism and process for
issuing full fee credits for affected listings will be announced over
the course of the next few days."
So I guess the best we can hope for is a refund of fees. Big deal.
Fran
"Willy Eckerslyke" <oss108...@bangor.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Many of the sellers on the US boards pulled listings early.
David Perry
with ebay and/or routing problems between ISPs and sites.
The two are not related, especially as many others using different
computers from different locations and different ISPs are experiencing
similar problems with ebay. I don't think you really know what you
are posting or what flushing a DNS Cache means!
David Perry
"Fran" <autum...@vendredi.fr.com> wrote in message
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>
this newsgroup it will solve all those problems!!!!
He needs to stop repeating what others do and say without fully
understanding
what it means.
Fran
"David Perry" <d.pe...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Oh, quite, but then he's known to be lacking a clue.
petrolcan
petrolcan
LOL. You were the one who replied to Peter yet didn't pick him up on it.
Is david your newest bestest friend?
petrolcan
Crosland says...
Peter, I believe you mean clearing the cookies and possibly browsing
history.
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Niel J Humphreys"
<ad...@sznzozwdzoznzczozmzpzuztzezrzs.co.uk> saying something like:
>Same here, the only problems I experienced this weekend were the ones on the
>announcement board where searches and shops went down temporarily at one
>point over the weekend.
Maybe the UK ebay server is in Cockermouth...
Peter Crosland
I know exactly what it means, and what it does. Weird things can, and do,
happen if the DNS cache has become corrupt. There are, of course, many other
possibilities many of which are much more widely known. The OP was asking
for suggestions relating to his problem not what might be happening to
others. At the time I was certainly not aware that there was a widespread
problem.
Peter Crosland
Willy Eckerslyke
I phoned them up and was offered a 20 pound voucher for the
inconvenience. It can only be spent on purchases, not for paying eBay
fees. When I said this wasn't enough to cover my losses, I was told to
watch the announcements board and that eBay was still working out how to
compensate sellers. I was assured that any compensation would be in
addition to the voucher. They weren't able/willing to flag up my two
problem items, which suggests to me that they'll just do something
across the board, eg dropping all final value fees for items sold during
a specific period.
Before being allowed to discuss any of this, of course I had to answer a
few questions to confirm my identity. Then I was told that my date of
birth wasn't listed and could I update my records by telling them? No
thanks, says I. Bloody cheek, WTF do they need that for?
Rob Morley
Willy Eckerslyke <oss108...@bangor.ac.uk> wrote:
> I phoned them up and was offered a 20 pound voucher for the
> inconvenience. It can only be spent on purchases, not for paying eBay
> fees. When I said this wasn't enough to cover my losses, I was told
> to watch the announcements board and that eBay was still working out
> how to compensate sellers.
I've not looked for news on eBay because it didn't affect me, but I saw
this earlier which sounds rather positive:
Peter Crosland
Because they will not allow minors to have an account. Providing accurate
information, and keeping it up to date, is a quite reasonable requirement.
Peter Crosland
Willy Eckerslyke
Not positive to me, unfortunately. My items finished Sunday evening, so
too late for the automatic refund according to that article. And as I
posted them first thing on Monday before hearing about the problem, I
was too late to cancel the sales. This is where eBay were remiss, they
did nothing to warn sellers that their recently ended auctions may have
been messed up.
Grimly Curmudgeon
<g6...@yahoo.co.uk> saying something like:
>> are posting or what flushing a DNS Cache means!
>
>I know exactly what it means,
Peter, I looks like it's the Albasani Wanker, morphed again - ignore
him.