posted on September 28, 2000 06:51:54 PM
I was just doing some Ebay listings tonight through Honesty.com when this happened. When I submitted the third to last listing Honesty.com relayed an error message from Ebay that said "That functionality is not presently available". Being persistent, I kept resubmitting until it final was accepted, WITH A 10-DIGIT AUCTION NUMBER!!!
My subsequent two listings reverted back to the normal 9-digit auction numbers beginning with the number 4.
How can this be happening? Anybody else out there experience this? If you want to check it out the auction number they assigned was was 1000004968. I presume it happened to 4,967 other people before me.
This is like finding a rare coin stamped on only one side. Do I get a prize?
posted on September 28, 2000 10:28:51 PM
I must have way tooooo... much time on my hands! I went and tried your auction # (even tried a few other #'s). Seemed odd that most of the auctions with the 10 digits were "wierd and unusual". Like real pot mousepads, penis enlargers, nazi items, dirty diaper, etc. Hmmm... I wonder if eBay purposely catagorized like that or if eBay has more of this sort of thing than I had realized.
One seller, of these odd items, must have a program to insert auctions because most of his present auctions have the 10 digits in near sequence. Also I noticed the "test" auctions that someone else had mentioned had the 10 digits.
I hope my auction program can handle the extra digit, not that I intend on selling "wierd and odd" items...
posted on September 29, 2000 01:40:39 PM
Could these possibly be test listings posted by the students taking the Ebay University classes? I know there was a question about a strange auction on the Ebay Auction Listings board the other night, and that was the explanation that was given.
posted on September 30, 2000 11:12:24 AM
More weirdness, from ebay Sept 29 announcements:
" *** System Status ***
The sending of End of Auction notices for sellers and winners of auctions listed in the category "Weird Stuff" is experiencing difficulties at this time. Weird Stuff sub-categories, General (322), Slightly Unusual (319), Really Weird (140) and Totally Bizarre (387) are also affected.
We are working to address the issues as quickly and as safely as possible. We will update you again when more information becomes available. "
Looks like they've pointed their new hires to the weird category and said "go play." It's a typical problem with eBarf... change for the sake of change. They don't understand the axiom, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Hey, test listings?... that would explain no EOA notices, they are phony listings by their students and ebay can't send an EOA like it was a real auction 'cause there's really no item offered, it's just a test listing. If so, more egg on Meg's face.
