eBay Suffers Extended Outage

by: sasikat9

Ebay is like a recurring bad nightmare.

And they want to add other stuff to the site. HA HA HA HA HA HA Thats so funny.

by: redruben

going slightly better now at least in belgium, though it still runs difficult

by: unknown

When I go to

http://announcements.ebay.com/

all I see is yammer about the photo uploading not working and then getting fixed.

Ina, how did you find system announcements at

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/201511140145071.html

by: Ric

Total and complete incompetence at every level is nothing new at eBay.

eBay's IT infrastructure is the worlds most fragile and illustrates managements complete failure to address one of the biggest issues this company faces.

I would bet that one of the reasons eBay's search engine is such a hot stinking mess is due to the fact that the newly written search engine does not run as efficiently as it should is due to the fact that the coding on the rest of the site is so antiquated.

eBay management lies to members and investors about the frequency and severity of system failures - IF they acknowledge system failures at all. When they are forced to admit system failures, they downplay the severity of those issues so that investors are less likely to be concerned.

by: toolguy

I had problems seeing my "sold" items for about an hour last night.

I sold an item about an hour ago so it appears all is well again. . .

by: Ina

Unknown - to answer your question, there are two eBay announcement boards.

The systems announcement board was set up to deal with technical issues:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml

by: amazedndazed

Just logged in to list. None of the photos are taking. Had one sale early yesterday. eBay if you are paying attention, please fix this. Also when trying to view certain pages I am getting errors!

by: bitbybit

During the outage I was able to get to ebay's home page Wish bigger Deals Fashion etc. so everything "appeared" well. Everything concerning my selling, watch lists etc. showed "page not responding". However, I was able to click through to anything ebay was showing me from that home page - Fashion, Deals, all their "Preferred" Sellers special deals. Ebay had complete control of what they wanted me to see and buy. Could all their manipulating caused the rest of the site with us lowly sellers to go glitchy and lose sales? Is eBay's programming ONLY going to work this holiday season for their big retailers and preferred sellers?

by: White Rabbit

Noon West coast- Pic upload is again not working- 2 pages on the discussion boards complaining-

Pic Upload is a simple basic thing.. I even have it on my web site... I mean a 12 year old can do this and make it work.

by: Bloggo

But hey, Look at our nifty new log-in page!!!!

by: Ming the Merciless

I can't remember a day in the last year where I didn't encounter at least one ebafia "glitch." Not one day!

Most of them are simply very annoying. But some of them are severely interfering with sellers profitability and, by extension, ebafia's profitability.

Constant platform instability and the increasing frequency of glitches and outages MUST be corrected.

It will only get worse as Wenig introduces his latest ridiculous brainstorms to search.

The platform was an absolute mess before Negged Meg Whitman left, and no one has had the cojones to fix it since.

by: Marie

OMG, Ina those graphics.  They are ALWAYS so GREAT !!!!

by: OnlyPollyPocket

Getting truly tired of the phrase "We apologize for any inconvenience..."

Stop apologizing and fix the danged problems!!

by: Rexford

Is that a burn in hell graphic?  :)

Photos not uploading, potential buyer can't find the item he was watching, it just goes on and on.  I can't fool with them today.  Spit and duct tape technology.

by: wasteland-mechanic

I love the "crash and burn" graphic.

Nothing instills the feeling in buyers that their info is secure like a website that constantly goes down. Once again feebay shows that they are their own worst enemy.

by: mb

My goal has been to move all my listings to ecrater by the end of the year and shut down my ebay store.  Every time ebay is down, I spend that time moving things to ecrater.  I'm ready to shut down my ebay store almost 2 months early, woo-hoo!

by: iheartjacksparrow

How can Devin expand his longtail inventory when the site goes belly up constantly? How much longer are the eBay sellers going to put up with this craziness?

by: Rexford

To mb's point, ecrater never goes down.  I don't recall ever having experienced a glitch there either. And no having to refresh listings either. You list and you're done.

by: toolguy

My gallery pictures weren't loading last night, at least that was what I thought when the gallery picture just said "photo"

But an hour later they were there.

I sold 2 items today so eBay is somewhat working. . .

by: unknown

@Ina, there is no link on ebay that brings you do the 'technical system announcements' board. If you don't have that page bookmarked or someone doesn't give it to you on a board, you cannot find it. You can read about it in google books, just can't find it on ebay.

I'm still requesting they set up an announcement board for what actually DOES work.