earthmum
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:20:34 AM new
Down here in the Baltimore area. I wonder if the AW problems and now the eBay outage have anything to do with the California utility company problems? Aren't a lot of the servers, etc., based in California? Hmmm......
earthmum
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tomwiii
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:26:26 AM new
*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
The eBay site is currently unavailable as of 02:40 PST. We are working as quickly as possible to restore accessibility, and we will keep you updated as more information becomes available.
Regards,
eBay
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morgantown
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:26:54 AM new
Yup they're down. Watch for the new "energy surcharge" fee. Must be about ready to roll out...
MTown
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corrdogg
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:29:19 AM new
morgantown: I think they already did that. It was called +$0.10 for 10-day auctions.
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morgantown
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:40:21 AM new
Laugh! So true CorrDogg! 
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Shadowcat
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:46:12 AM new
Well, this bites. I was actually going to bid on some things and now the site's down.
Guess no one wants my money...
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mballai
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:51:15 AM new
I still can't figure why they would tack a fee on for 10 days. With maintenance and/or outages, you'd never get more than 9 days of uptime.
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anais
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posted on January 22, 2001 03:56:01 AM new
This is the second morning I intended to bid and they have been down. Poor sellers!!!!
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kiki2
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:03:55 AM new
Down here in Western PA.
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VIDPRO2
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:06:00 AM new
mballai, Ebay wants to encourage shorter auction lengths, that's why the .10 cent premium on ten-day auctions, and the implementation of the Buy It Now feature.
They've made no bones about it and even remarked about it in their earnings conference call last week.
http://www.auctionbytes.com
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Collegepark
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:06:58 AM new
Yeah, down again. Could the rolling blackouts effecting their service now?
If ebay plans to add .10for 10 day auctions, then they should at least allow us to get that much time instead of ripping us off. I feel that some enterprising lawyer could make some money on a class action suit here
[hint, hint, hint]
Hopping mad about outages and ebay rip-offs!
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traceyg
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:26:23 AM new
7:21 AM EST and they are still down. I got up early to do some work on Ebay and see how my auctions ended last night at least it didn't crash during prime time like it usually does.
So if the site went down at 2:40 PST and it is 7:23 est here it means it is what take away three hours I think???? 4:23 there. They should be up soon as they wouldn't want to have to pay anyone end of auctions fee back for being down 2 hours.
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snowyegret
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:37:24 AM new
Hmmmm, still down.
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nanastuff
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:43:43 AM new
User: [email protected]
Date: 01/22/01
Time: 04:38:55 PST
*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
In accordance with our Outage Policy, all auctions affected by the outage will be extended for 24 hours. The extension includes those ending within 1 hour after the outage. Extended items will appear in Listings and Search results following the next update of those features.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your understanding.
Regards,
eBay
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corrdogg
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:43:46 AM new
And apparently not coming back up any time soon...
*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
In accordance with our Outage Policy, all auctions affected by the outage will be extended for 24 hours. The extension includes those ending within 1 hour after the outage. Extended items will appear in Listings and Search results following the next update of those features.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your understanding.
Regards,
eBay
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nanastuff
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posted on January 22, 2001 04:45:20 AM new
corrdogg, great minds think alike lol.
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snowyegret
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posted on January 22, 2001 05:04:36 AM new
I was able to access my ebay thru the uk site
http://www.ebay.com/uk/
There!
[ edited by snowyegret on Jan 22, 2001 05:05 AM ]
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mysticmo0d
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posted on January 22, 2001 05:32:56 AM new
Not only .10 charge for 10 day auctions.
***Fee Changes***
Today, we are announcing two changes to the current eBay price structure. Effective Wednesday, January 31, 2001, we are increasing insertion fees and adding a charge to the 10-day listing option.
* Insertion Fees
Here are the old and new price schedules for insertion fees.
Opening Value or Reserve Price: $0.01 - $9.99
Current Insertion Fee: $0.25
New Insertion Fee: $0.30
Opening Value or Reserve Price: $10.00 - $24.99
Current Insertion Fee: $0.50
New Insertion Fee: $0.55
Opening Value or Reserve Price: $25.00 - $49.99
Current Insertion Fee: $1.00
New Insertion Fee: $1.10
Opening Value or Reserve Price: $50.00 -$199.99
Current Insertion Fee: $2.00
New Insertion Fee: $2.20
Opening Value or Reserve Price: $200 and up
Current Insertion Fee: $2.00
New Insertion Fee: $3.30
* 10-Day Listing Option
A new ten-cent ($0.10) fee will be implemented for the 10-day listing option. The three-day, five-day and seven-day auctions will not have an additional fee.
We recognize that price increases directly impact our sellers. The last time Insertion fees or Final Value fees were increased was December 1996. We will continue to build a vibrant marketplace by investing heavily in technology, marketing and customer support to make it possible for millions of people to discover and use eBay.
More information is available at:
http://pages.ebay.com/community/news/price_increaseFAQ.html
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kiki2
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posted on January 22, 2001 05:45:53 AM new
It sounds like they are saying the site is back up and working but I can't access anything. I get timed out or a connection reset by peer message. 
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Meya
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posted on January 22, 2001 05:45:56 AM new
I was able to pull up my seller list, look at my auctions, even did a couple of searches, then down it went again. 
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paintpower
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:12:07 AM new
As of 9:12 a.m. on the East Coast, the seller search and My Ebay are still not working. Can't use Ebud software either, as it says Seller Page Not Available when you try to update.
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paintpower
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:14:11 AM new
9:14 a.m. East Coast ... just tried to access my seller page and My Ebay through the UK site and it was not working either.
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corrdogg
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:32:26 AM new
This is REALLY BAD.
When interruptions of service such as this occur people lose interest – especially buyers.
Ebay’s higher fees = less service.
- No HOT, WARM, or any temperature backup system.
- An Announcement Board where you never hear “The rest of the story”.
- Search updates that routinely take 12-24 hours.
FOUR days ago (01/18/01) Meg states on the AB:
*Looking Ahead to 2001*
Our foremost commitment is to the continuing enhancement of our technology infrastructure, making it possible for an ever-growing number of users to reliably transact increasing amounts of business from around the world.
(Memo to Meg – did you cc Engineering on this?)
And, if you want to make sure that your potential BUYERS actually can FIND and SEE your auctions for 7 days, you can participate in this gem:
 10-Day Listing Option
A new ten-cent ($0.10) fee will be implemented for the 10-day listing option. The three-day, five-day and seven-day auctions will not have an additional fee.
We recognize that price increases directly impact our sellers. The last time Insertion fees or Final Value fees were increased was December 1996. We will continue to build a vibrant marketplace by investing heavily in technology, marketing and customer support to make it possible for millions of people to discover and use eBay.
What better way to drive sellers to using 10-day auctions than providing crappy service on a regular basis, huh?
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jwpc
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:40:46 AM new
8:30AM Central Time in South Alabama - only Ebay Announcement page accessible down here.
I also can't get Honesty to pull up, haven't been able to access them either for hours!
Same problem attempting to access eBay via eBud - "sellers page not available"
[ edited by jwpc on Jan 22, 2001 06:42 AM ]
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jwpc
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:49:44 AM new
Was able to access eBay via AOL, got to search, and auction pages - but couldn't access seller pages, of My eBay.
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libbyparsons
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posted on January 22, 2001 06:57:00 AM new
Can't access ANYTHING at all.
Why do they only extend the auctions that were scheduled to end during the downtime? ALL auctions are affected, ALL auctions are missing out on browsing time.
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corrdogg
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posted on January 22, 2001 07:29:20 AM new
Time: 06:48:29 PST
*** SYSTEM STATUS ***
Seller Search, Bidder Search and Bid History are currently unavailable. We are working as quickly as possible to restore availability of these features. We will update you when we have more information.
Regards,
eBay
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joycel
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posted on January 22, 2001 07:37:40 AM new
I was able to use that UK site with no problems. Thanks for posting it!
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speckledbeast
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posted on January 22, 2001 09:23:45 AM new
HUUMMMM AW AND eBay go down at the same time? Seems this is a black monday or maybe there's more to it?? Wish they could/would get their stuff together.
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tuition44years
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posted on January 22, 2001 10:33:23 AM new
I confess!! It's all my fault! I rarely list on ebay anymore (so I rarely use AW auction manager anymore either).
I spent Thursday-Sunday taking pics, setting up my templates on AW, etc for a big (for me) group of listings!
Everytime I decide to do some listings at ebay .. CRASH!!!!
__________
I have a memory like a steel trap .. unfortunately it's rusted shut!
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