posted on January 4, 2001 03:51:12 PM
In the eBay announcement board, Meg Whitman announced that yesterday's outage was brought to you by the folks at eBay.
They deferred required upgrades from their computer vendor.
Isn't this considered corporate negligence?
How many eBay sellers and buyers suffered emotional distress and who could put a value on their lost productivity, lost income and lost sleep!
posted on January 4, 2001 04:02:15 PM
Welcome to corporate America where $$$$ make the clock tick. Perhaps they finally realized that if they lose the little guy, they are done. Time will tell if it is business as usual or time yo change.
posted on January 4, 2001 04:05:44 PM
I would say they did the right thing defering shut downs over november and december till after the free listing were closed.
I think we gained more because of that move then we lost yesterday.
posted on January 4, 2001 04:19:05 PM
dman,
I agree with you. eBay found themselves between a rock and a hard place. They were damned if they did, damned if they didn't.
They hedged their bets and this time lost out. At least they kept us informed and came clean by admitting the outage was down to eBay.
Maybe with more foresight they shouldn't have been in this situation in the first place, but, it's happened and what is done is done.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
posted on January 4, 2001 04:33:53 PM
Sometimes eBah works best when it crashes. I've had people write who were watching items when eBah eCrashed. As a result, the deals were completed off eBah and eBah lost the transactions closing fees, plus gave me credit for the crash.
Now if I can just get it to work that way on Yoohoo...
posted on January 4, 2001 06:04:58 PM
(UPI) 3-JAN-01 EBAY braced for yet another outage.
After an hours-long outage on on-line auction giant ebay, the San Jose based company will offer its sellers a series of graduated rebates on listing fees plus a choice of PEZ candy dispensers.
EBAY spokesman Henry Gomez estimates that the problem will repeat itself in the not too distant future, but cannot guarantee when this will happen. "It went down, and we don't know when we'll get it back up." We can only assume that he was talking about their website.
The price of the EBAY stock jumped today on news of a Fed interest rate cut. That same interest cut was auctioned off last week for $19.51 by some guy named agreenguy. Auction was won by prezelect. There has not been any authentication of either the buyer or seller to date.
In a related story, Pierre Omidyar, Chairman of the Board of EBAY, was reportedly bidding on some website software and windmill hardware on Yahoo. Meg Whitman, President of the company, was pissed off because she had a bid in on Yahoo (the company, not the auction site) and is worried that some other bidder (TimeWarner, perhaps?) will come in with some sniping software and get the company with a last minute bid.
Stock analysts rate the stock as a strong buy, but since the site is down, they are unable to do just that. Log on tomorrow, if you are able, or the day after that, or the day after that...
