eBay Experiences Checkout Outage This Morning

by: ebay refugee camp

The checkout is not the only problem ebay was having in the last 24 hours. Ebay messages were not loading and gave error messages, purchase history was missing purchases. the revise item feature was bring up an error page. The site was slow.

by: Volvo351

Had an item I ended last night at the starting bid. I set it at what was fair value for the item; if you Low Ball items you will generally lose money due to lack of traffic and absence of rival bidders.

Fortunately winning bidder paid immediately and I shipped today. Had he waited 'til this AM receipt of boat part for weekend use would have been impossible.

Yet another reminder that eBay's "crack IT team" - the one that's ON crack over in the 3rd World He// Hole - has to Stick to Their Knitting - address stability of the site instead of working on the carp that The Hoe dreamed up on his latest "thinking day."

by: Shop and Ship

All reasonable attempts at upgrading eBay Listing Photos this morning were frustrating and futile. eek-Bay's ''1,500 Free Listings'' offer has little value without the capacity to actually register the uploads.

A prior commentor's post seems appropriate: ''too much layering has caused links to become unstable''.  

by: gizmo

Whats new? More glitchy mess from the mess. Very unreliable site has screwed me more than once. Just one , of many reasons I dont use them any longer. Very un-dependable. Very un-reliable !Nothing like going backwards. Devil weinig has his work cut out.

by: ebay-dreckfresser

   The Ho and DW need someone to blame. How about Walmart?  Perfect!   It's all Walmart's fault.  

by: Basset

Like Shop and Ship, I notice some photo issues.  I relisted a few things this morning and photos are still not showing up.  

Don't know how widespread it is, but I notice when doing searches that several newly listed item photos are not showing up.

by: Massachusets Howler

MANY things going on in the last 24 hours.
MH

by: Owen

It's all the sellers' fault, for sure. Why don't they just all go away, good for nothing, grubby, wretched, "noise". They are the cause of everything, according the the King of eBay.

by: ajeweler

bet that they blame it on the airlines and stock exchange glitch

only on freebay

by: bitbybit

"Some members are having problems with desktop checkout on eBay. We're working to resolve this. Mobile checkout is unaffected."

Just a thought - are they trying to direct or steer buyers into using mobile checkout over the desktop? Another manipulation?

by: pace306

I agree with Owen - it MUST be the sellers fault.

Its never eBays or a buyers fault, cant be Google, cant be JD or DW - so it MUST be a sellers fault.

Probably mine. I owe them $63 in sellers fees so they OBVIOUSLY cant pay the electrical bill or the Verizon bill.


Sorry Folks.

by: Philip Cohen

Ah, what can one say, other than, what's new at eBay today?

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: maxmad

Get rid of this stupid company, ebay has no future, even the big box stores are leaving,,,,

https://www.internetretailer.com/2015/07/09/toys-r-
us-makes-big-e-commerce-play

by: Owen

I've been wondering for years, what would happen to eBay, when large retailers decided to leave and do their own online sales. Why did they ever need eBay, anyway? Just didn't make sense.

So when they leave, guess what would be left selling on eBay, mostly China sellers, who might do so much better on Alibaba, or even on their own with less hassle, smaller fees, etc.

eBay has systematically alienated small sellers, many of whom have left or at least set up another shop elsewhere, diverting their inventory.

When big retailers leave, wouldn't much of the value of eBay leave with them, making them less attractive for any takeover?

That's what happens when you lose all focus of what you are, what your history was, what made you successful, and start fragmenting your core business.

Sad.

by: brokentoys19

@maxmad

LOL! it's being chopped up!

also in the news:
Thomas H. Lee said to be in lead to buy eBay’s enterprise unit for about $1B

http://www.wealthdigg.com/thomas-h-lee-said-to-be-in-lead-to-b
uy-ebay-s-enterprise-unit-for-about-1b/

(read: a $1.4B loss - rotflmao)

One of these days ebay could have an outage and never come back. Just hope they don't empty your bank accounts before they do. There's nothing to stop ebay-pal after all.

by: maxmad

15 years ago Everyone needed ebay
8 years ago Ebay didn't need us
Today no one needs ebay

I already see many china sellers desperate to keep their business going with the wacky ebay policies, when the Chinese run out of user id's they will be gone too.

A lot of them even send you a photo of your item being put in an envelope, how crazy is that?

The policies are designed to exterminate,

ebay is done.  

by: DZT

Ebay check out is screwed up.

Buyers are unable to pay for items they have purchased.

Rest assured....The sellers will be blamed for this also....

Here comes another ''defect'' on our account.

by: The End

It's no coincidence.
Apparently, there is a world wide task force flexing it's capabilities to bring various entities to their knees.

by: Bloggo

No entities have been brought to their knees.

by: The End

Yet.