etexbill
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posted on April 29, 2002 09:49:39 AM
11:46 here in East Texas. Now, just a white screen. Can anyone explain to me why so many, including me, keep running to eBay like Lemmings to the sea. There are other alternatives. Why don't people get fed up and go somewhere else, thereby making "Auction Brand X" the next eBay?
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mardoc
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posted on April 29, 2002 09:53:00 AM
Still down in Georgia!!
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callcorp
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posted on April 29, 2002 09:55:28 AM
It took a very long time but I eventually got the system status page to load. eBay is sick today.
Date: 04/29/2002
Time: 09:34:17 PDT
***System Status***
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties across the eBay site. Members may have issues with page slowness, downloading the eBay Home Page or viewing the navigation at the top of the site.
We are aware of these problems, and working to correct them as soon as possible. We understand that this is an inconvenience to our members, and we appreciate your patience.
Regards,
eBay
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gina50
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posted on April 29, 2002 09:55:44 AM
Down in Philly and almost 1 PM ........
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jonesy400
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:00:01 AM
My question to eBay is ---- Don't they run parallel with real data before updating programs or upgrading equipment? With someone (not a programmer) testing files to make sure something like this doesn't continuously happen? It might be a bit expensive in the beginning, but in the long run you wouldn't run across these down times and would actually be cost effective.
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jonesy400
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:00:23 AM
My question to eBay is ---- Don't they run parallel with real data before updating programs or upgrading equipment? With someone (not a programmer) testing files to make sure something like this doesn't continuously happen? It might be a bit expensive in the beginning, but in the long run you wouldn't run across these down times and would actually be cost effective.
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sun818
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:02:42 AM
try ebay.ca or any of the other international sites. you can at least browse the cached index. no sales
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margar
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:04:41 AM
Got through to the Ebay announcement boards, this was posted: Date: 04/29/2002
"Time: 09:34:17 PDT
***System Status***
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties across the eBay site. Members may have issues with page slowness, downloading the eBay Home Page or viewing the navigation at the top of the site.
We are aware of these problems, and working to correct them as soon as possible. We understand that this is an inconvenience to our members, and we appreciate your patience.
Regards,
eBay"
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beartique
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:05:29 AM
NO EBAY IN MICHIGAN EITHER!
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margar
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:05:57 AM
Got through to the Ebay announcement boards, this was posted: Date: 04/29/2002
"Time: 09:34:17 PDT
***System Status***
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties across the eBay site. Members may have issues with page slowness, downloading the eBay Home Page or viewing the navigation at the top of the site.
We are aware of these problems, and working to correct them as soon as possible. We understand that this is an inconvenience to our members, and we appreciate your patience.
Regards,
eBay"
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pamc19
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:10:58 AM
1:10 pm on the eastcoast and still no ebay in New Hampshire
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golfwidow1
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:15:31 AM
1:00 est in Upstate NY having really slow upload of ebay's site. My ebay too. How long has this been going on?
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docpjw
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:19:58 AM
12:18 pm in Chicagoland, and it is NOW working OK. Seems to have "started" to download MUCH quicker. 
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gina50
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:22:05 AM
Hey ~ didn't this same thing happen on a Monday just a couple of weeks ago ?? ebay was down like half the day!!
I end a lot of my auctions on Mondays, right now have 10 getting ready to end shortly and great .... no on else can bid
I have always had great success with Mondays but think I had better switch to another day since Mondays are getting like Sunday nights!!
Like the song by the Boom Town Rats ... I don't like Mondays..... !! 
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tree411
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:22:07 AM
no go eBay in Wisconsin....
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golfwidow1
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:25:18 AM
working better in upstate ny, I have cable and it seems much faster but still a little slow.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:27:19 AM
Intermittent catatonia here in San Jose. I was able to list one item but can't get back to view the listing.
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wwtraders1
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:27:34 AM
Down in Tucson AZ. This is getting to be a habit with eBay. Instead of posting on this board we should all hit Meg with e-Mail complaining. 
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quilts4sale
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:39:43 AM
I can't get onto the ebay home page or my seller page, either, but if you start at this point, you can at least search by title or whatever...this apparently isn't being affected by whatever ebay's problems are today...
http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/search.html
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blackdog
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:47:39 AM
Nothing in Missouri, either. I find it odd that eBay was out on Saturday morning - completely out - and there was never an announcement about it! Now this.
Yeah, I've tried a lot of other auction sites, but like Microsoft, eBay has a monopoly. They got in early, got the users netted, and now no one else can get off the ground. Wish there WERE a viable alternative...
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pclady
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posted on April 29, 2002 10:57:30 AM
Seize the moment to check out Carnaby.com and win a million in their new Cash Cow lottery game while you are there browsing. It's very cool and very fun. Yes, I'm biased. I love that site.
Check out all the third tier sites while you are at it and make comparisons. Make use of this time. Check out the sites that have rare or minimal outages.
Grrr Ebay - my best bids come on Mon. a.m. - I'm not a happy camper.
pclady
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blairwitch
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:07:35 AM
Its been dead for me several hours now.
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buyhigh
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:07:59 AM
Interesting that they do not admit to an outage - just that "some members may be experincing some difficulties." I can not even get the homepage or anything else for starts - not even the site page.
buyhigh
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inot
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:35:54 AM
ARE WE THERE YET?
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ubidwesell
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:36:27 AM
You can get through just fine if you go through AOL service.
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chris30
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:42:18 AM
Just tried the AOL co-branded and stil can't get in ........
So it's still down and out in Maine!
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nanntique
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posted on April 29, 2002 11:51:10 AM
Teh Electronic Bay is back, but a little slow, in Central TX
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chris30
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posted on April 29, 2002 12:04:06 PM
I finally manged to get to the AB and they are saying the site is now running fine. But it's still slow and I'm missing the links which take you to site map above the browse/sell/search........
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gina50
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posted on April 29, 2002 12:05:23 PM
Yeah ~ ebay is back up and running ..... did quick business before it goes away !!
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buyhigh
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posted on April 29, 2002 12:08:33 PM
Finding that it works - then 4 mins later it doesn't. Think I shall have to give up.
buyhigh
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