posted on January 7, 2001 06:01:12 AM
Ebay should offer outage insurance like thier fraud insurance. They could advertise it to give sellers false hope, like they do with fraud insurance to give buyers that warm fuzzy feeling, and then put paralyzing restraints on it like, "you have to file your claim directly with LLoydes of London while the outage is occurring and all claims must be filed by carrier pidgeon and delivered to Jeeves before high tea".
posted on January 7, 2001 06:27:33 AM
What fascinates me is that eBay is the ONLY site on the WWW, that can't stay stable and functional!
Yes, I am aware of eBay's amount of traffic, but many sites have a tremendous amount of traffic, stock brokerages, etc., and no one but eBay experiences this endless instability.
posted on January 7, 2001 06:52:38 AM
Knowing Ebays money grubbing ways as I do I'm wondering if there might have been an altercation over a dime two of the Corporate officers simultaniously saw laying on the floor in a puddle of P while collecting the change from the employee pay toilets. In the insuing tussle the coin perhaps flew over the cardboard refrigerator boxes seperating the coed washroom from the servers and landed on a circuit board shorting out the system.
Or maybe one of the pennies they put in behind the fuses to fix the last outage started a fire and nobody had a quarter to to get a glass of water from the pay water cooler to put it out.
Or maybe they laid off the guy whos functionality was to put out fires;^)
All would be "PENNY WISE POUND FOOLISH", which suits Greed Ebay to a T.:^)
[ edited by horizonod on Jan 7, 2001 06:55 AM ]
posted on January 7, 2001 07:21:08 AM
Well when you crunch the numbers and figure that in a 7 day period Ebay receives an average fee of $2.00 per item(in which they have virtually no investment) and sells a couple million items per week. Then take the $6.50 an hour x 40 hours a week (no overtime) they pay the 350 grunts that work there just to use the pickup line "I work for Ebay" at the local bath houses, back out the saleries of the corporate few and they just aren't showing the bottom line it takes to upgrade thier servers.
