posted on October 26, 2000 05:43:54 PM
NOW, you all didn't read the notice, this is going to be a fun board, where we can all develop a sense of "community," and laugh and play games while the site is crashing and we are losing money!
posted on October 26, 2000 06:23:08 PM
Guys and Gals,
I don't think this has anything to do with bells and whistles.. While I agree, they are pretty pathetic, this has to do with traffic.
Simply put eBay doesn't have the server strength and bandwidth to handle the traffic. If it were bells and whistles.. Then the UK and other country servers would have similar glitches.
No, this seems to start every night for the last several weeks at about the same time the West Coast is getting home, through dinner, and getting online. Add them to the East Coast who is on the backend of their evening, equals too much traffic.
I remember reading in a tech article a couple of months ago that eBay bought a certain brand of servers. I remember several competitors arguing that they made a bad decision based solely on cost and would have problems with the ones they were going to use. I thought it was just sour grapes to the losing companies.. But every since we've got past the summer season and the traffic has increased.. We get the same errors.
I know that it is hard to leave eBay, and no one can put their eggs in one sales basket anyway. But if everyone would refrain from listing on eBay for 1 week and let all of their auctions end and not re-list for a week, it would cause them serious financial pain.
Now, I realize this isn't going to happen. Some of us have money invested in products that we need to turn over and can't afford not to list, but, I don't see a better solution.
I do like ePier.com it looks and feels just like eBay, unfortunately it doesn't get any traffic therfore no page hits and no BIDS!
posted on October 26, 2000 06:26:53 PM
Stick with eBay.....stick with Ebay...stick with EBAY.....stick with eBaY....stick with EbAy.....eBay LOVES you!
