posted on October 3, 2001 12:38:24 PM
AuctionWatch Users,
We apologize for recent auction launching problems. Our engineers have been working around the clock to stabilize Auction Manager Functionality.
Yesterday afternoon, a change in the eBay listing form broke all auction launching, and affected some relists. Our engineers were able to correct this problem late last night. Another change to the eBay listing form this morning resulted in another launch outage that we fixed relatively quickly.
To isolate AuctionWatch from problems due to eBay form changes, we have been working on implementing the eBay API on our site. Based on recent outages, we have decided to accelerate releasing the API. We are planning to release the API this afternoon, and may have short intermittent outages during the release. After the release, you will not see any user interface changes to our service, but our services will be more stable.
We appreciate your business and are working hard to continuously improve the functionality and stability of our services. We will keep you posted on status throughout the transition, and we will let you know when the API release is complete.
