posted on January 11, 2001 09:21:27 AM
*** EXTENDED MAINTENANCE PERIOD ON FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12 ***
The eBay system will be unavailable on Friday morning, January 12, between 00:01 PT and 07:00 PT for scheduled maintenance. Please note that this maintenance time has been extended by five hours to accommodate important system changes.
The maintenance is being done as part of an overall commitment to providing the level of service expected by our members. During the maintenance, we will be upgrading hardware components as recommended by our vendor.
Because of the duration of this particular maintenance, we are extending auctions as a courtesy. Items that were scheduled to end Friday, January 12, 2001, between 00:01 PT and 08:00 PT will be extended by 24 hours.
As with all regularly scheduled maintenance, the indexing cycles are delayed but catch up later in the day on Friday after the maintenance is complete. Because of this, you should expect Search updates to be 12 to 15 hours behind on Friday following scheduled maintenance. Please note that this does not impact Listings indexing cycles.
posted on January 11, 2001 09:42:50 AM
Well, I do think it is good that they are keeping their systems & programs up to date and up to current standards.
However as a seller with running auctions I am kinda bummed that my auctions will just "lose" 7 hours. 00:01 - 07:00 PT is 03:01 - 10:00 ET. Which may translate to a loss of bids for me. I find that about 07:00 - 10:00 ET on a friday am is a big times for getting bids. That seems to be when I get a LOT of bids (other than the weekends). I'm curious to see if this affects my sales or not.
But all in all it will probably not be a big deal.
