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As usual Ebay did not give any thought to the ramifications of what they were doing, just found a way to grab some extra money and ran with it. So now they have to figure out how to fix the program to adjust for their stupidity. Ebay has gotten to where they now totally depend on the sellers to do all their work for them when it comes to the ramifications of their money grabs just as they depend on the Sellers to be their Beta Testers rather than pay for their own department. This is what has led to Ebay being such a glitch filled site as the teams do not work together or even communicate for that matter. Each team has their own agenda and that is all they focus on. So now somebody has to try and figure out the cheapest way to make a change to this without costing Ebay all the extra money they were counting on from this move.
The reason he said by May is because May is the next month with 31 days, and they know it won’t be fixed by the end of March. He didn’t really mean it would take 2 months to fix, just that it would be fixed by the next 31 day billing cycle. The only logical fix is to change the fixed price GTC duration to 31 days. But this is ebay, and there will be ghost pages that refer to 30 day duration forever, as well as all the other now non-existent durations.