posted on February 19, 2001 07:52:13 PM
And all this priority is at our expense!!!! I know my sells are way down this week with all the outages. E bay is in a win win situation, they get paid regardless of your success!!
posted on February 19, 2001 08:19:04 PM
Funny, everybody jumped on the case of a seller including a disclaimer in his TOS that said if his auction ends during an outage or there is an outage in the last 10 minutes---the auction is null and void.
Yet, given the fact that Ebay won't change their auction extention policy, I think that is the ONLY way to make sure you're not screwed. Reserves cost more AND they still don't keep you from losing revenue that these outages cause at auction's end.
posted on February 19, 2001 08:45:48 PM
If snipers didn't exist I'd have to have stock in Ramen Noodles since that's what I'd be eating.
I can't speak for anyone but me, but when ebay's down so's my bank account.
The morons know it and will not admit that ALL the action happens in the last few seconds of the auction close.
When you make billions you have the luxury of not having to give a damn. That's the message I get.
posted on February 19, 2001 10:11:57 PM
I publish a weekly auction-related newsletter (free to subscribers) and last week in doing my digging for the letter I ran across these links to some articles on eBay's site stability--I use the term loosely. Definately some interesting reading, LOL.
Definately some interesting reading, LOL.