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Seems eBay was down?

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:43:14 GMT

I thought it was just me having issues, from about 8.30pm, but it turns out someone else was too. I was trying to list stuff and kept having major problems. Then just before midnight, I couldn't get past the "this web page is not available" message....it was completely dead.

Phone app was no help. I could see my watch list and current listings, but couldn't revise or add a new listing, the app kept throwing me out and logging me out.

I thought maybe I had contracted a virus, despite not going to any sites that I don't normally go to. So, I ran every malware scanner under the sun, did a hard disk and registry clean, rebooted, installed all the new windoze updates, rebooted the router, tried several different browsers, tried DH's computer, and nothing.

Than about half hour ago I got a message from another forum member asking if I was having issues because they couldn't log on.

So glad it wasn't just me because I was all set to reformat my computer tomorrow!!

Did everyone else have issues, or was it a sporadic thing?

Re: Seems eBay was down?

diecastcarsvicki — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:00:32 GMT

going by ebay's facebook page from approx 8.20 pm until just after midnight ebay suffered a major meltdown affecting not just .com.au but uk & usa sites as well. im sure we will hear more about it in comming days as a lot of sellers with auctions finshing in that time frame will be mighty upset. as is a lot of buyers claiming they could not bid on auctions. plus the fact many people was trying to list items before the 150 free listings expired which most couldnt do.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

crafty-cazzza — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:08:53 GMT

I was listing about 2pm sunday when it started playing up, couldnt upload photos.

Then I tried revising a few listing and everyone of them the photos have now disappeared.

Hubby tried buying because of the %15 off and he couldnt, that was around 5pm, hes not a happy hubby

I tried listing again about 7pm and I couldnt even log in - 3 accounts

My son tried his account - no luck

Hubby tried again - no luck

About 9.30pm I finaly got logged in, tried listing but everytime I clicked something I totaly lost Ebay.

Since I had heaps of things to list and wanted to use the free listing we got I kept on trying.

Hubby tried buying his comptuer thingy again but no luck , he gave up and went to bed (cursing Ebay)

About 10.30 I finaly got some listings done (big total of 6) then it totaly crashed again around 11.15pm, I couldnt even log in.

Its now 2.30am and its all finaly working BUT OF COURSE the free listings have ended.

I bet that crash saved Ebay heaps as free listings couldnt be used and also saved them the %15

Ebay looking after Ebay

Re: Seems eBay was down?

crafty-cazzza — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:13:35 GMT

It was way earlier than 8.20pm for me.
It crashed out on me early sunday arvo
Hubby couldnt even buy as soon as he click on Buy it Now it booted him
We tried buying on his Iphone, my pc and laptop and it was the same for all of them

Re: Seems eBay was down?

diecastcarsvicki — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:17:11 GMT

I maybe wrong but i think the 15% promo finshes tonight monday at 11.59pm.

going by all the add's on tv they was saying promo goes for two days. so im hoping thats correct as i have to pay for 3 items. i just checked my last item i brought and that was at 8 14 pm and it was within 5 minutes after that i had my ebay crush.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

diecastcarsvicki — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:23:35 GMT

just found this story worth a read.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2724495/Top-websites-crash-web-starts-run-space-Fears-major-technical-problems-regular-occurrence.html

Re: Seems eBay was down?

crafty-cazzza — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:25:10 GMT

Yeh around 8.30 was when I totally couldn't log in

Earlier I could log in but couldn't list or buy

Re: Seems eBay was down?

ejholden1963 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:36:05 GMT

Wasn't there some internet issue due to solar flares happening this weekend?

A convenient excuse for for the Bain Boys to roll out anyway .....

Re: Seems eBay was down?

scottywhatty — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:45:43 GMT

You bet they were down. LOL. From 9pm onwards, until sometime after midnight (When I decided to give up and go to bed). As for the remainder of the 140/150 free listings for 4 days, well, why even peruse the link here when it isn't worth the paper it is written on. Same thing happened last month. Ebay is a guise and a sham. 10% of all fees on all auctions that sell? LOL! Yes ebay you can have an extra $1.50 for any additional things I wish to sell after my meagre "free fourty listings" allocation is exhausted. You're a stinky smelly **bleep** crack ebay. Terrible. Just terrible.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

goldeagle1970 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:28:41 GMT

Sounds like this was not only Ebay, reading the UK link.

I would wait before paying for any listings, as Ebay may hopefully give us some more freebies to compensate.

My scheduled items came on okay, and yes the 15% finishes tonight. Mon.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

curraone — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:25:27 GMT

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Re: Seems eBay was down?

rbt0488 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:53:13 GMT

Still can't log sign into EBay app on phone. Can only access EBay on PC.

@i-love-my-sheep wrote:
I thought it was just me having issues, from about 8.30pm, but it turns out someone else was too. I was trying to list stuff and kept having major problems. Then just before midnight, I couldn't get past the "this web page is not available" message....it was completely dead.

Phone app was no help. I could see my watch list and current listings, but couldn't revise or add a new listing, the app kept throwing me out and logging me out.

I thought maybe I had contracted a virus, despite not going to any sites that I don't normally go to. So, I ran every malware scanner under the sun, did a hard disk and registry clean, rebooted, installed all the new windoze updates, rebooted the router, tried several different browsers, tried DH's computer, and nothing.

Than about half hour ago I got a message from another forum member asking if I was having issues because they couldn't log on.

So glad it wasn't just me because I was all set to reformat my computer tomorrow!!

Did everyone else have issues, or was it a sporadic thing?

Re: Seems eBay was down?

clarry100 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:55:32 GMT

We had trouble listing and/or logging in from about mid afternoon Sunday and onwards.

We gave up after a while. Tried all kinds of things before we surmised it must have been a website problem.

A bit annoyed as we were unable to list the remainder of our FREE listings.

Any auctions ending during that time ended without sales either.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

transport-posters — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:21:01 GMT

I checked this page to see what was going on with eBay:

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ebay.com.html

Look at all the comments........ once I saw that, I stopped messing with my DNS settings and stuff, and just had to go to bed.

Quite sad that I lost the 150 free listings I was hoping to get done just before midnight due to wanting to spend the weekend with my family. I guess we shouldn't leave things to the last minute (or hours) with eBay - look what happens. Everyone else does it too and it probably caused a meltdown. It's annoying that eBay always launches these free promotions just before the weekend.

I don't imagine there will be any more freebies offered until for next weekend at the earliest.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

van_werkhoven — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:31:58 GMT

Yikes, lots of people set their auctions to end on sunday nights now, how many auctions failed/sales didnt go through because of that!

Re: Seems eBay was down?

robart05 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:34:59 GMT

Yep

I had an auction ending and it failed !

I find out because a **bleep** off bidder sent me a message saying he was trying to bid but he kept getting locked out - he even sent a screenshot.

So what happens now?

I sent a message to the winner(?) saying there was a problem and I wanted to cancel, but how will all this play out?

Grrrr . . . . oh well

Re: Seems eBay was down?

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:40:13 GMT

I suppose if nothing else, a few of us now have spotlessly clean computers! I forgot to mention that I also defraged too and got rid of about 20GB of carp!

I could access eBay and the forums without logging in, I just couldn't log in to do anything. I checked for any outages on their announcement page, but couldn't find anything. Maybe that came later, or it wasn't available to see unless logged in?

It was only when I tried to access the forums on my phone around 2am(ish) where I was able to logon, that I retried the computer. Everything worked then. Interestingly though, when I tried the phone app about 45 minutes later to check the eBay site, it had crashed again and kept logging me out. Each time I would try and log back in, I would get told I had no network connection.

I knew I had network connection because I was hooked up to the home network and everything else that required the internet worked OK. I even logged out of the router and still got the same thing on 4G.

It all seems to be working OK this morning, both the phone and computer. I'm a bit miffed that I didn't get more of the free listings used, but there were only about 6 more things I was going to list anyway. I still have plenty of my 40 freebies left.

Re: Seems eBay was down?

imastawka — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:41:19 GMT

Ebay was down.....but these boards weren't?

I wondered why it was so quiet last night.

I hadn't logged out and kept coming back for a look.

There seemed to be only 3 of us and a lot of tumbleweeds.

Then when I went to log out. The boards were fine,

but I couldn't log out of ebay. Was still signed in this morning

Re: Seems eBay was down?

robart05 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:49:06 GMT

I just got a message from eBay saying my request to cancel the failed auction has been denied and I have to complete the transaction

Thats **bleep** and obviously wrong

??????

Re: Seems eBay was down?

bettyboopsadaisy — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:39:07 GMT

Why am I not surprised that ebay hasn't bothered to make a general announcement re this problem.

They treat both their buyers and sellers with contempt !!

There must have been huge numbers of affected traders who had auctions finishing last night or wished to bid (not me personally, though I couldn't upload photos for a while last night) and still ebay doesn't feel there is any hurry to acknowledge it, apologise to those who were impacted and reassure that compensation will be considered.

Like I said, why am I surprised !!