eBay Sweeps Outage Under the Rug
eBay refuses to acknowledge major technical issues that plague its site including an outage that lasted hours on Monday and a days-long problem impacting search results. In the early days of the site, eBay would […]
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eBay Outage Monday Follows Weekend Search Failure
eBay experienced a widespread outage on Monday – many buyers and sellers were unable to access eBay as technical issues continued to plague the site. Those who were able to access eBay reported problems with […]
Sellers Deal with Third eBay Outage in a Month
Sellers were unable to complete basic selling tasks on eBay on Wednesday morning as the site experienced the third outage in the past month. Things ground to a halt in the early morning hours the […]
eBay Experiences Global Outage Saturday Morning
eBay experienced a network connectivity issue in one of its data centers for over 8 hours beginning early Saturday morning that made the site unusable. The company said it would automatically credit fees for listings […]
eBay Backend Unravels Making Site Unusable for Sellers
Users are reporting massive problems with eBay’s website, particularly sellers. While not a hard outage, various features needed by sellers to complete tasks are unusable. EcommerceBytes noticed a rash of problems being reported on Monday, […]
Thursday’s eBay and PayPal Outages Prove Costly to Sellers
A power outage at a data center on Thursday evening was able to bring PayPal to its knees and wreak havoc for independent merchants as well as buyers and sellers on eBay and Etsy – […]
eBay Checkout Outage Lasts Two Hours
eBay shoppers were unable to complete a purchase on the marketplace Thursday morning after a global-wide problem with eBay’s checkout. Buyers began experiencing problems shortly after 8 am Eastern yesterday morning, and checkout was restored […]
Maynard Webb Opens Up About eBay Meltdown
June marks the 15th anniversary of a 22-hour site outage that nearly ended eBay as a company. CEO Meg Whitman managed the short-term crisis, but it was a wakeup call that led her to hire […]
eBay Experiences Worldwide Outage Monday Morning
eBay confirmed it had an outage early Monday morning that prevented some users from accessing features on the site. Reports came flooding in overnight via email and various boards, including Ecommerce EKG and DownDetector. Users reported being unable […]
Is eBay Keeping Its Promise to Protect Sellers after Outages?
eBay has been experiencing major technical issues recently and promised to protect sellers from any fallout resulting from problems in two of the incidents. However, in a recent eBay live chat session, a seller reported that […]