posted on May 17, 2005 08:20:40 PM new
It's about par for the course. This happens every time they have a FLD. Now that there are no more of those, you can expect it on the dime listing days. My auctions launched on schedule every five minutes since noon. At 6:45, they slowed down to a crawl. I'm still waiting for a 7:00 p.m. scheduled auction to launch. The server pipes get clogged up during prime time on bargain listing days.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on May 17, 2005 08:28:33 PM new
Isn't the listing for 10 cents go until a minute or what ever after 12 midnight Pacific time? If so hope mine launch before the 2:00am time here in Texas hope I am thinking right. Be my luck they will launch just after time is up. Does Vendio time stamp the listings so they will be credited as listing in time ?
It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of
course, there's shipping and handling, too.
ID at ebay is earlybirdgetsworm
posted on May 17, 2005 09:01:41 PM new
Hi Irked...No, Vendio doesn't time stamp the listings. The official time is established by Ebay at the exact second the auction becomes live on their site. The problem is, there are so many third party services, Vendio and all their competitors, trying to submit a tremendous volume of listings in a very narrow time frame that Ebay cannot accept them all. Their system becomes overwhelmed and your 7:00 P.M. listing may be held in pending until 8:22 P.M. when it finally squeezes through. This is exactly what happened on the listing I spoke of in my earlier post. After about 9:30 or 10:00 pm, they should start listing pretty fast. Right now, there is a big backlog of prime time listings they have to catch up with.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on May 17, 2005 09:12:00 PM new
Thanks sparks, I am sure I will be sweating it until they do go through. I just posted another topic but main question you just answered. Maybe they should make agreement with ebay to honor listings in bogged down cases. That will never happen. LOL
It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of
course, there's shipping and handling, too.
ID at ebay is earlybirdgetsworm
posted on May 18, 2005 12:53:14 AM new
Well, Daylight Savings time shouldn't be an issue in cyber space. Figure your posting time as minus per your time zone from Greenwich Mean Time for FLD purposes. Makes up for the hour lag. YMMV.
