posted on February 20, 2001 11:29:48 AM
Hi,
I have been selling for almost a year and every once in a while the number for my auctions will start with a 1.Last night I posted some and several came back with a 10 digit number.I write my auctions down in a book and when I get the check I just look up the auction number to find out what this payment is for.Having a number that starts with a 1 instead of the numbers 562 that are being used now is throwing me off.If anyone knows the answer to this it would sure take care of my curiosity. thanks
1tuna on ebay
posted on February 20, 2001 11:38:15 AM
OH NOOOOOOOO!!!! THEY'RE CREATING AUCTION NUMBERS THAT START WITH THE NUMBER 1. DAMN THOSE EBAY PEOPLE, DAMN THEM I SAY!!
posted on February 20, 2001 11:43:25 AM
I thought I saw a post a while ago when they first started popping up that eBay may have testing to make sure the 10 digit numbers would work when they were finally hit.
posted on February 20, 2001 11:58:08 AM
Ihave plenty of auctions that contain both the nine and ten digit numbers.
I suspect that eBay is bouncing auction submission off of two processing servers and by using both nine and ten digit auction numbers are able to provide number allocations to both of the servers without replication.
posted on February 20, 2001 12:00:34 PM
Certain categories have higher numbers. Books are up to 14xxxxxxxx. A lot of the pottery and glass items are at 12xxxxxxxx. Just depends on the category
posted on February 20, 2001 12:00:50 PM
I believe it depends on category, as mentioned--my auctions in the Music/CD & Music Memorabilia Categories have been 10 digits starting with a "1".
posted on February 20, 2001 05:48:30 PM
From what I've seen, it depends on whether or not you list your item in two categories. Every item I've listed in 2 categories has the 10-digit number, if I just use a single category it gets a 9-digit number.
