Yes, as DG pointed out eBay normally offer some form of amends to those sellers directly affected.

Gosh it was quite a lengthy outage this time. 

Iin the middle of it all my neutral that was due to disappear in a week or so, disappeared slightly early

Whilst I am very distressed about the loss of Free Auctions for stores ....  I was actually more frustrated not being able to log in to the Discussion Boards and vent about the outage -