posted on October 23, 2000 05:04:06 PM
OK. Here is just what we wanted: “Headroom”!
Now we know what we are investing our listing fees and Final Value Fees in:
“We will continue to fine-tune the system for optimal performance with Oracle 8. It's difficult to predict, but we expect this transition to be completed in about 7 to 10 days during which there may be periods of certain feature unavailability. Our goal is to make these improvements in advance of the holiday season. “
posted on October 23, 2000 05:10:54 PM
"It is extremely distressing for everyone at eBay to have to report any problems with the site to you. These measures will keep us from falling behind in headroom and move us toward building an eBay for the future."
Sounds to me as if eBay is more distressted about falling behind in headroom than the impact of ebay taking down "certain functions" on sellers and buyers.
Would be nice too if they gave everyone some warning when they are going to "disable certain functions".
posted on October 23, 2000 05:14:39 PM
<font color=red> HOW VERY KIND of Ebay to wait until the stock market gathered steam from the earnings announcements to announce to US this problem. Well, they say facing your problem is supposed to be a step towards healing it.
What a pile of poop...</font>
posted on October 23, 2000 05:20:53 PM
Well, I guess it is fine-tuned to oblivion tonight. Again, it is down - all functions. aaaarrrgghhh. It seems to wait until I have auctions that are ending and then it goes down. (probably everyone is saying that). I hope Oracle does a better job when it's used for command and control for the armed forces. too scary to think about.
posted on October 23, 2000 05:32:06 PM
This is really sad.
I held off listing most of the summer because things were so slow. I would do a series of “test” auctions over the past several months and decided to plunge back in only within the past several weeks. While things were not GREAT, I felt that I was seeing some improvement and the percentage of completed auctions was rising, so I built up to 100+ listings running at all times.. Then all the “hiccups” and outages started, and now this.
It seems like there is not much point in this for individual sellers. Maybe that is what eBay wants...
posted on October 24, 2000 03:10:08 PM
Today’s installment from the Announcement Board:
Date: 10/24/00
Time: 14:36:19 PDT
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*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
The Seller Search function, 'view seller's other auctions' on the item page,
and 'Seller' tab of the My eBay page will be intermittently available until
21:00 PDT while Engineering works to resolve issues affecting these
functions.
We will keep you notified should there be any further changes in the status
of the site.
