Ebay technical staff

[rdmuldoon1]

Just wondering if those that are supposed to be looking after the Ebay Website have taken their heads out of their behinds and finally discovered a way to reverse the Chaos they have created with regards trying to log in via the Industry leader web browser, Internet Explorer ?

If i was a seller i would be very annoyed that a large portion of my potential Customers were being prevented from completing their purchases because some supposed " Technical Person " has decided that he will restrict access to a customers account to the extend that only a couple of the third rate browsers will allow Log In.

Ebay has always been a third rate operation in regards keeping up with Technology but this latest blunder must really be scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

Wonder if Bill Gates and the shareholders at Microsoft are aware that users of their products are being shut out and forced to migrate to the competition because some pimply faced kid has mucked up the website and is either too stupid or too arrogant  to fix it.

If i was the manager whose face appears at the bottom of some of the Ebay pages i would definitely consider looking at a career change as the the one she has now is a laughing stock.

[bsal6160]

what are you talking about? IE works fine here.

[sprinklespowerpuff]

Same here. Windows 8.

[lyndal1838]

You are very behind the times.  It is a long time since IE was the browser of choice for ebay.

Firefox and Chrome are much more ebay friendly.

Your rant does you no favours either.  These boards are run by volunteer members who have no control over which browsers are compatible with ebay.

[cherry*135]

Industry leader web browser, Internet Explorer

Can't agree with that. IE has never been good for browsing on eBay either.

Jan 2015

Microsoft is finally ready to call it quits on its wildly outdated and awful flagship browser, Internet Explorer.

In news that affects precisely no one under the age of 40, Microsoft is finally taking Internet Explorer out back and putting it down as it should have years ago when it was clear that no one preferred IE to any other browser in the world.

Now, Microsoft will reportedly leave IE in the dust as it prepares to unveil a new browser with its upcoming Windows 10 operating system.

[davewil1964]

It isn't only eBay that isn't IE friendly. It's almost the entire Internet.

The 'industry leader' ceased to be that once they got rid of Netscape as a rival and rested on their supposed laurels. Unfortunately for Microsoft the new upstarts have far better products and, in Google's case at least, deep enough pockets to innovate. Something MS was never that good at anyway.

[lane-ends]

IE whats that????

trying to appear young and groovy

Bring back dial up internet and lets get retro..(Put that phone down I'm on the internet). Doncha just miss that dialling up tone..another connection charge as it froze and dropped out. (hurry up log off I want to call mum). Wont be long only another 2 hours to down load this song.

Pictures downloading at the same speed it takes to put up a billboard poster...But it was wonderous stuff.

What another microsoft security patch to update, Only take and hour and most of your data allowance. Better do overnight on cheap rate.

Back ups on piles of floppy discs.

Google did to IE what it did to encyclopedias.

[davewil1964]

I had a second phone line for the internet 

Tubular Bells took 3 goes at about 10 hours each to finally pirate download

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

I had a second phone line for the internet 

Tubular Bells took 3 goes at about 10 hours each to finally pirate download

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Oh, the joys of dial up!! I hated it when you were halfway through downloading something, then *click*, someone trying to ring you, so you got cut off. We couldn't afford a second line at the time so just lived with it. I remember getting aDSL for the first time and couldn't believe it when someone rang and I was still connected to the internet!!

My brother owned an internet service provider at the time and he hooked me up without telling me. He came to visit for the weekend and set it all up while I went down the street. It was only when mum rang and I didn't get the dial up box pop back up that I realised something was different. My brother had rung mum and told her to ring me.

Even then, downloads were still pretty slow with a 256K broadband connection but pictures loaded really fast. Now with aDSL 2 and living close to the exchange, I can download a 4GB file in less than 20 minutes!

I have Tubular Bells on record and CD so never tried to download that one. A few others did seem to take hours. I would try and get a higher quality file, which was 15-20MB a song, but some were only available in lower quality.

I remember my first computer had 2.1GB HDD and 64MB RAM. I was the flavour of the street because everyone else only had 16 or 32MB RAM. I was watching my HDD get swallowed up downloading a few songs so had to limit it. I had an unlimited download connection, but didn't have the hard drive capacity to deal with it.

2.1GB, how did we cope? Same with the RAM. I doubt anyone these days would go for anything less than 4GB RAM (I have 8GB). I also look at those little thumb drive thingo's and think what's on that used to be my entire hard drive! Now you can buy them for a few bucks in a bargain bin. As for dial up, I'm surprised it still even exists. The lady that lived 2 doors up until about 2 years ago still had a dial up connection. I tried to get her to change, but she said it was all she needed.......even though aDSL was actually cheaper than her dial up! Problem was, if she needed something downloaded or sent that was a larger file, she'd come up and get me to do it!

[cq_tech]

Believe it or not, I still have my old USR Sportster 56Kb modem connected to my PC although I can't even remember how long it's been since I used it as a dial-up modem. However, it still has a perfectly usable Class 2.0 Fax built-in and I still use that on the very rare occasion that I need to either send or receive faxes, although most people have long since migrated to email for such purposes.