topic Re: why is ebay so slow? in Selling

why is ebay so slow?

lizzy6107 — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:01:52 GMT

I am finding ebay to be extremely slow, other sites on web all fine, using firefox .. cleared caches etc, have pop up stuff and ad blockers going,.... time ticks over and I either get the ebay page saying is busy etc. or get time out. Photos are especially troublesome....

i am working from the- outback -cottage- boutique, and I am getting quite annoyed.

Is this another way ebay is trying to get rid of it's sellers? Unable to list new items!

Any one else or just me/

Re: why is ebay so slow?

lyndal1838 — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:22:55 GMT

I have found it a bit slow the last half hour or so but it is Friday and anything can be expected when ebay do their maintenance.

Just go with the flow and wait for the Friday Gremlins to go away for another week.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

decaldistrictoz — Fri, 29 May 2015 09:18:56 GMT

Its been very slow for me too. I am with Dodo on ADSL 2 and I thought it was them but everything else is running at full speed.

Listing is the worst. The Publishing sems to be taking forever.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

stewmeikle — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:12:31 GMT

Well this is years later and ebay is so BLIMMIN SLOW!!!! I'm on NBN with a 7K speed but still issues with only ebay.

It's all the adds loading up! Very annoying, all those side adds etc.

Getting close to closing my account and I've purchased quite a few items over the years.

Stew.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

dazzledayz — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:24:02 GMT

@stewmeikle wrote:
Well this is years later and ebay is so BLIMMIN SLOW!!!! I'm on NBN with a 7K speed but still issues with only ebay.

It's all the adds loading up! Very annoying, all those side adds etc.
Getting close to closing my account and I've purchased quite a few items over the years.

Stew.

I have an Ad Blocker (AdBlock Plus on Firefox) installed and that seems to help a lot for general navigation.

Sometimes eBay's still pretty slow though but as far as listing goes, I find the new lister works a lot better than the old one.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

davewil1964 — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:31:08 GMT

I would expect, with a 7k download speed, the average webpage would take several hours to download. Which probably means you replied to this thread when it was current.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

hansbruitzman — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:20:07 GMT

August 2017, ebay take forever - I have nbn and everything else works fine normally, but with ebay running everything slows ro avgrinding halt - not happy 😓

Re: why is ebay so slow?

imastawka — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:36:29 GMT

Download an adblocker for your browser. Problem solved.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

janeababe — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:06:31 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Download an adblocker for your browser. Problem solved.

Stawks... post started 2015

.....they're bleeding everywhere. Maybe we should bump some really old posts to make life a bit more exciting around here... LOL

Re: why is ebay so slow?

lyndal1838 — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:08:16 GMT

Hold tight Jane....if you wait long enough I am sure there will be a few threads from 2010 and 2011 surfacing.

I thought I was going mad recently when I did not recognise a post that had received a kudo....until I realised it was from 2011.

This one is a pup compared to that one.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

imastawka — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:41:33 GMT

@janeababe wrote:

Stawks... post started 2015

.....they're bleeding everywhere. Maybe we should bump some really old posts to make life a bit more exciting around here... LOL

But someone else resurrected it April this year. What can ya do?

I actually liked Dave's answer back then.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

davewil1964 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:05:11 GMT

I had forgotten it.

See, who says I'm always a grumpy old bugga?

Re: why is ebay so slow?

lyndal1838 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:22:16 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
I had forgotten it.

See, who says I'm always a grumpy old bugga?

Oh Dave, none of us would be so cruel....you are only grumpy some of the time.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

davewil1964 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:39:47 GMT

Exactly. I'm never grumpy when I'm asleep.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

xebedie — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:43:09 GMT

ITS 2018 and its STILL SO SLOW! I rarely bother give feedback to sellers but this one seller gave ma amazing service so I clicked the FEEDBCK link... and literally, its been 5 minutes and the page has not loaded. Get your **bleep** together eBay!

Re: why is ebay so slow?

davewil1964 — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:10:35 GMT

1. This thread is 3 years old.

2. It is Friday - Friday is maintenance day. Has been for at least the last 10 years.

3. Maybe try some of the suggestions in this thread rather than bumping it to no purpose.

4. Why don't you leave feedback? You obviously receive it, and feedback actually has some relevance for sellers.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

cut_priced_sales — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:29:05 GMT

Something is up ebay website via android. This is google killing ebay probably due to some amazon deal.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

k1ooo-slr-sales — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:11:30 GMT

@cut_priced_sales wrote:
Something is up ebay website via android. This is google killing ebay probably due to some amazon deal.

If you are using your phone to view eBay and it is slow then it might be that you have a lot of 'tabs' or 'web pages' active/running.

You would be surprised at how many people have tens and even hundreds of pages that keep on updating . . . causing their phone to run slow.

Try keeping open pages and tabs to a minimum.

Re: why is ebay so slow?

k1ooo-slr-sales — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:40:42 GMT

also, the number of apps you have running can slow your phone.

Try running 'device care' from your 'settings' to optimise performance.