valerie47
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:34:36 PM
rnrgroup: Hey I'm in the Finger Lakes of NY too! We're probably neighbors!
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The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
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breinhold
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:35:05 PM
i had it up for a second tried to search and it was back down and now it is history
cant get in anywhere
i hate when this happens its like war of the worlds
pa just bit the dust
martians landed
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airguy
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:35:39 PM
over 300 auctions closing tonight.
guess we wont eat this week 
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edhdsn
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:35:49 PM
As of 7:27 PM PST ebay shut down in San Jose Ca, so If I cannot get them, I do not think anyone can. I have a major auction ending in 20 min. 530 hits, and $300 undervalue and no reserve, I guess I just take the neg, and refuse to sell it. Ed
edhdsn
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labbie1
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:36:33 PM
Well shucks! If it is scheduled maintenance, then how can I be upset right? I mean, they won't have to PAY if it is scheduled!
sjl1017 I think it has to be down for 2 hours or Ebay won't do anything in the way of repaying costs or extending...Like I wanted it extended! ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!
Pardon me folks...I am venting. Bad night...I am not usually like this...REALLY! 
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photogeyk
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:37:06 PM
ITS UP HERE IN MARYLAND, I JUST LISTED 14 AUCTIONS, NO PROBLEMS
every 20 seconds in america a woman is giving birth:SHE MUST BE FOUND AND STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.................................................................
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pjglad
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:37:17 PM
Yesterday it was a problem launching. Today it is a problem with closing for those auctions closing after the shutdown. BTW, I had a scheduled launch for 4:00 PM EDT today that did not go off so I had to launch immediately about 3 hours later. If I had my choice of problems I would prefer launch problems over problems with my auction closing during a shutdown. The latter can cost you bigtime money. An example was the poster above who mentioned the auction losing out on an extra $100.
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buyhigh
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:37:26 PM
Sure down in So. Ca. Tried quick search and no luck. They did admit that the site was unavailable (no functionality this time) but they were working on it and to try the announcement board but that timed out on me. Too bad they keep adding features when they cannot make what they already have stable.
buyhigh
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breinhold
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:37:28 PM
if aw goes down im gonna be peekin out my window like a 10 year old
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thedewey
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:38:31 PM
Appears to be back up in GA.
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spuddy98
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:38:31 PM
you all need to relax a little bit. When I tried my hand at ebay last year for the first time I had a model car kit that was about to end when the site crashed. It was at approx $400 the site came back up and the auction was extended then it crashed again hence another extension. Long and short: I sold th emodel kit for over $600. Just be patient. You all talk about yahoo but you know the money is at ebay. I don't know why but it just is, so hang tight.
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featherwings
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:39:38 PM
No sjl1017, there are no extentions, no refunds, nothing..nada..zilch from E-Bay! We pay them, they keep the money! They go down, we are out the money! Tough nugies to us! Welcome to the world of E-Bay selling! We are the underdogs, the ones who get stepped on by E-Bay's outages, Paypals blunders and fees, etc...etc...etc... Oh isn't it a joy?
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breinhold
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:40:20 PM
well im relaxed but if the electric goes off ill faint. 
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dman3
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:40:44 PM
I just did a search on yahoo good news the ebay peices that came crashing down are not listed there in a 1 cent sale yet so there is still hope
WWW.dman-n-company.com
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pjglad
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:40:57 PM
This is one advantage of Ductch auctions. You might sell fewer items because of a shutdown but you don't really lose money if you set the auction at what you expect to get.
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celebrityskin
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:41:45 PM
Sigh...
The problem with being down like this is the average buyer likely tried ebay a couple of times, and if it's dead... they don't come back... so as sellers... we lose the whole damn night..
Had some bidders going back and forth on my auction... and I had a feeling that there was going to some last minute action... and then EBAY GOES DOWN.
Plain and simple... I lost money tonight.
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celebrityskin
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:43:30 PM
"*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
The eBay system was unavailable for about 5 minutes, beginning at about 19:30 PT. The system is now
available, however, we are still experiencing intermittent availability of My eBay. We are continuing
our work to address the issues as quickly and as safely as possible. We will let you know of any changes
in its status. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Regards,
eBay"
5 minutes.... yeah right.
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breinhold
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:44:37 PM
it will soon be snowing and we will all be doing great. even as much as this stinks i cant make this kind of money on other auction site
put down your pitchforks
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rnrgroup
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:44:45 PM
SmoothSale.Com anyone???? -Rosalinda
TAGnotes - daily email synopsis about the Online Auction Industry
http://www.topica.com/lists/tagnotes
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labbie1
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:45:26 PM
Oh GREAT! It's intermittent availability time!
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pjglad
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:47:00 PM
It's up and running again....at least in South Florida.
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vorlon4
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:47:24 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how a company that depends on site stability doesn't seem to care that the site never works properly.
I subscribe to TAG notes and according to their reportage, there is never a day when everything works, there's ALWAYS something down.
"Site stability is our main priority." said some high placed ebay person upon her assuming her high mucky muck position.
Main priority after let's see Gunpoint,image hosting,Ebay motors, and every other boondoggle she could concieve.
Yahoo has in the neighborhood of 2.5 Million auctions- do you see this crap going on over there????
Remember when Ebay had 2.5 M auctions- they were down as often (or more) as they are now. Yahoo doesn't have these problems. WHY????
It comes down to Management's actually caring enough to FIX the problems and getting competent people to do it.
If the will was there-they'd put all these assinine new ideas on the backburner and fix the site stability. But the will for anything except gouging the customer seems to be absent.(Of course if the yutzes working on the systems are REALLY as incompetent as we seem to think, then all the will in the world won't fix Humpty.)
I don't want to come off as a Yahoo cheerleader but Ebay could learn quite a bit from them. (Assuming they could shelve the arrogance long enough to believ they COULD learn something from someone else.)
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smw
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:47:48 PM
5 Minutes?? Don't you just love the eBay clock? You can't get to the auction pages to bid but that must be a minor detail.
Looks like eBay is getting ready for another no functionality Christmas.
Vorlon: Actually eBay was down more when there were 600,000 or fewer auctions.
[ edited by smw on Oct 10, 2000 07:49 PM ]
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cybercat
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:48:14 PM
featherwings said, "a back-up system is all it takes!"
I've been away a while. Whatever happened to the hot backup eBay was supposed to be working on? Seems they should have it up and going by now.
cybercat
BTW, mrgroup and valerie47: I was born in the Finger Lakes region! Seneca Falls--by Seneca Lake--ended up living a few years in Ithaca-at the tip of the longest finger--Cayuga Lake.
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What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
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smw
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:50:59 PM
eBay does have a backup, but it is more like a "warm" backup.
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tismesugie
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:52:56 PM
I think "lukewarm."
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valerie47
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:55:17 PM
cybercat: I used to live in Seneca Falls just a few years ago! Also lived in Waterloo, Phelps, and now Clifton Springs!
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computersplus
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:58:13 PM
down in Delaware too. So sad and frustrating.
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humber2
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posted on October 10, 2000 07:59:49 PM
Where can we take you?
Is this a serious question in My eBay or a statement of intent?
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vorlon4
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posted on October 10, 2000 08:02:19 PM
D-UH!
The light just went on over my head.
The reason they don't care about site stability is because of the way the fee structure is, they get our money whether the site's up or down. You pay up front you pay again at the back- and if you don't make as much as you want- too bad, so sad- they get their cut of whatever you made.
They don't HAVE to care! They get paid either way.
I'm so dense sometimes I scare myself.
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