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The self proclaimed greatest tech company once again proves how inept they are.
Does eBay ever test anything before they roll it out or is testing first against company policy? It seems they just roll out the updates and close their eyes and cross their fingers. I am no IT person by any stretch of the imagination, but their system is so antiquated, I am surprised we are not seeing a DOS screen when we log in.
This is typically what happens when the production and development environments get out of sync. The changes work good in the development environments and has issues when deployed to production. The longer a platform is in operation the greater the risk is of this happening.