posted on October 11, 2000 01:12:59 AM new
ebaY in an attempt to keep the truth about their outages hidden from their users removed the following posts from the ebaY Discuss New Feature boards -
First post removed -
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT ebaY critical functions of search,
My ebaY and access to listing pages to bid were down on 10 Oct
from 18:00:40 to 20:27:53. My ebaY was not restored until 21:35:38.
If you feel your auctions were negatively impacted by the outages
or My ebaY problems, request a refund by going to the form at
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
SendSupportEmailShow&subject=Credit%20--%20How%20can
%20I%20receive%20credit%20for%20insertion%20fees%3F%20
Send -
* The item number(s) of the ended auction(s)
* The specific fee(s) charged for them
* Your seller's email address or User ID
* The phrase, GIVE CREDIT in the Subject line
This can also be accessed from
http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-support.html
PLEASE - IF YOU ARE DENIED REFUNDS LET US KNOW
This was reposted by other users who thought it had just scrolled off, but was removed again by ebaY.
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Second post removed---
Posted by theauctionguild (0) on Oct-10-00 at 23:22:05 PDT Auctions
Ahhh -it appears ebaY removed my last post. Now lets see, it did not have any personal information, was not rude, did not contain any vulgarities or contact information....so what was the grounds for removing it????? Oh yeah it had the TRUTH about tonights outages as opposed to the lies posted on the AB, and the information on how to use ebaYs system to request refunds. So if you would like the truth -and the info, PLEASE email us! -Rosalinda
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The third post just said that I see they removed my post - Posted by theauctionguild (0) on Oct-10-00
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Ahh ebaY silly silly silly! -Rosalinda
posted on October 11, 2000 01:29:59 AM new
Ah, the ever faithful Rosalinda... I was just about to write you, but I see you are, as usual, on top of the situation! *grin*
posted on October 11, 2000 01:44:25 AM new
Hi Linda
Thinking about this - it just hit me that tomorrow Meg reports ebaYs third quarter results to the stockholders. So maybe there is more to this than silliness. There might be outright fraud being perpetrated by ebayY against their stockholders!!! If ebaY admitted to the 2.5 hour outage, they would have to PAY out refunds and everyone would know that they would have to pay them. I wonder how bad tomorrows 3rd Qtr report is going to be - so that the 2.5 hour outage would really hit the stock!!! Wish I knew someone who posts on the Financial boards who could go tell ebaY stockholders the TRUTH about tonight. By denying all this, even if ebaY actually pays the refunds their users request, the STOCKHOLDERS wont know about it until the 4th qtr - usually a very strong one! Wow, this is really getting interesting!!! -Rosalinda
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