Breaking News: Another eBay Outage Hits the Site

by: tb

Down for me. I got the news from Price Spectre. It told me I don't exist on eBay! Went on line and sure enough, can not access MyeBay. My listings are showing, but when I click on any one of them, I get a message saying "Showing similar items.".

This is BEYOND too much at this point. I want a full months worth of listing fees and store fees returned. Will this be happening during the holidays?

by: Kaz

So how many outages is that so far in 2014?
Not sure this sits well with ebay's advertising campaign to drive buyers to the site for the holiday season.
They won't be able to log on, or if by some stroke of luck/chance thev do manage to access their accounts..................... bidding and buying is not currently available, PLEASE TRY LATER !!!  

by: Bidonmine

For the 2nd time in the last couple of months my account has vanished!
Ebay has to stop hiring 18-year old game players as programmers!

by: TandL

Not sure how long it will last,  but all appears to be working again.  6:40 CST in Wisconsin.  

by: LJM

Maybe their servers are overloaded from everyone "shopping the world"?

by: Ming the Merciless

If hackers are responsible, keep up the pressure on Devin Wenig to rollback ALL the odious Ho 'disruptions' BEFORE October 15.

He knows what they are.

by: Ming the Merciless

Could this "shopping the world" campaign be another attempt by ebay send more American shopping dollars to foreign countries in order to ruin American sellers?

by: Basset

Perhaps that new eBay commercial was successful beyond their wildest dreams.  Or:

Live auction tonight?  Furious bidding shorting out the servers causing sparks to fly, the site's power flickering on and off like the bridge module of the Starship Enterprise after having a fender bender in an asteroid field?

by: Philip Cohen

Have no fear, Johnny Ho has got another six month to do some more work on eBay, and if he can't fix it, no doubt Little Devin will be able to ... ho, ho, ho ...

The eBay executive suite—where the incompetent mingle with the disingenuous, the malevolent and the outright criminal, and the just plain stupid ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas

by: The End

Ebay's not the only outage ...Stop & Shop registers when Completely BLACK everywhere tonight.

by: iheartjacksparrow

eBay's practically weekly outage/glitch/hack/meltdown is getting ridiculous. They're so worried about buyers having a great experience, yet they apparently don't take into consideration that not being able to bid/buy is not making people happy. If they can't keep the site running properly they should just shut it down.

by: Shop and Ship

One set of auctions was showing "ended" when in fact the listings didn't end for another 3 hours. I feel for the Seller receiving 11 cents for his items because no one else bid during the final hours.  

by: eBankrupted

The new global Ad campaign melted the ebay servers with massive demand from the 'Generation Broke' Millenials ordering 'gently used' Hazmat suits from Liberian sellers.

by: NullApps

@ tb

Not sure if you are one of the sellers that contacted us today but in case people are wondering search apps are very sensitive to these sort of issues.  Once the eBay databases start going down searches start failing and our support ticket system gets inundated with questions and complaints.  I sometimes think we know about eBay outages before even eBay does.

by: ebay refugee camp

Once again this is a ongoing problem that has been happening DAILY.
I think the outages are from faulty equipment and sub par programmers and technicians.
Once again, where is the CEO of Ebay? Nothing from him, at this point an apology would not be good enough.
Compensation for the ongoing outages and low sales should be given.
Pierre Omiydar where are you, aren't you the Chairman of the Board. Is this what ebay is suppose to be?
This is completely unacceptable sellers are paying ebay fees for listings and store subscriptions, this is outrageous that nobody is addressing this properly.
Our government needs to step in here because it is not stopping and has been going on for two months or more.

by: Mark4

SELLERS UNITE EBAY BOYCOTT STARTING NOVEMBER 18TH.   it's starting 11/18/14 for most, then for the entire 2015 year. If that doesn't turn ebay into a cancer causing chinese junkpile, the boycott will continue into 2016 and beyond until ebay goes back to the way it was in 2006, or goes broke. The boycotters have the power now because we've found fertile ground elsewhere.  

by: WhatsUp2656

SYSTEM FAILURE STORY: They are so messed up. I have restrictions on buyers without a paypal account. Someone bid and won an item I had. Buyer writes and states they needed to set up a paypal account and it could take a couple of weeks. I called ebay to tell them their system failed. They denied it and said they did have an account and ''maybe'' they need a couple of weeks to pay for it. Called paypal and confirmed they do not have an account. I call back to ebay and let them lie and told them they were liars and what paypal said. Their answer: Paypal shouldn't tell you anything. I said your system failed and he says that is impossible and NO one could break the system. Okay, then what about the breach? He said that's different and nothing could break that part of the system. Well, that's comforting. Oh my, my.

by: dans parts

Their systems ARE all screwed up, as we all know.

Currently, my Dashboard is not showing the correct amount of transactions for this month (Oct).

Had only one day this month I've sold anything - 60 items on Oct 5.  2 items went to people who bought more than one item, so that should leave 58 transactions.  Dashboard shows only Domestic transactions, so subtract the 9 Internationals, and that makes 49.  One cancellation from a boob who couldn't read the description, and the final total should be 48.  Yet the Dashboard shows only 45.

And, that total is AFTER the Dashboard updated itself (the once a week update) on Thursday.

Called CS, and after getting shifted 6 times from US support to Philippines and finally back to US, a rep agreed with my math process on this, and promised to figure out what's going on and get back to me.

I won't be holding MY breath until I turn blue...

Just another way eBay is cheating us - take away our numbers (for 400 to create 3-month lookback) to increase our chances of failing from previous ''Defects'' that didn't use to be Defects, when we received those ''slams'' from Buyers.

What, ''protected til March''??  I'm not buying that one, either

by: DingDong

  I couldn't log into my account. Kept saying that my ID and Password didn't match. I typed so slow to make sure everything was right. Still the same thing.
  Then I "Forgot password" and added my email. It came up with no register email on ebay.
   ALL I COULD OF THOUGHT OF WAS THAT I WAS HACKED.
   Then I went out on ebay and searched some of my items and they were there with my id.
   It was hours before I was finally able to get back on ebay and checked the personal information. I was correct in everything.

   

by: MeTech

Ebay is just thinking of sellers.

Since the site is doing so great they want to give sellers a break from shipping.

That was thoughtful of them.