Is eBay down???

Post by **chachi** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:23 am

Is anyone else having problems accessing eBay right now? specifically the cameras section???

Post by **downix** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:24 am

Yup. I was just checking on a bid I have on a Maurer 16mm cam that's on there. Yeah, I know it's old, but beggars can't be choosers ya know.

Post by **chachi** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:25 am

I just went to refresh on that nikon R10 I posted earlier in the week, and now I can't even bid

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:28 am

Same here! I wonder what eBay's policy is in terms of compensating sellers and buyers for auctions that are inaccessible during an outage.

I was probably watching the same R10 - I bought one earlier, but this one was at $142.50 with 50 minutes left. I wonder if anyone was able to submit a bid, and if the seller is obligated to sell it at that price? Probably not.

Post by **reflex** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:34 am

I had problems with eBay pages timing out last night -- I wonder if they're having server problems or are suffering from a denial of service attack? Strange for such a big site.

Post by **downix** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:41 am

Well shoot, I should have put in that bid for that Mitchell which is at $1. 8) But, if it stays down, then I might actually win the maurer. 8)

Post by **soundboy** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:45 am

reflex wrote:I had problems with eBay pages timing out last night -- I wonder if they're having server problems or are suffering from a denial of service attack? Strange for such a big site.

says it all really

Post by **monobath** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:07 am

I don't really know what type of IBM servers or operating systems ebay uses, but I can tell you for a fact that both IBMs z/OS and AIX operating systems as wells as the z990 series, P5 series, and RS/6000 SP servers are among the most fault tolerant and stable platforms in the industry. There's nothing wrong with being powered by IBM.

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:10 am

"I just went to refresh on that nikon R10 I posted earlier in the week, and now I can't even bid"

Damn! It ended at $142.50 because no one was able to bid in the last several minutes... is the seller obligated to sell at that price? I'm really pissed - I paid a lot more for mine.

Post by **monobath** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:13 am

monobath wrote:I don't really know what type of IBM servers or operating systems ebay uses, but I can tell you for a fact that both IBMs z/OS and AIX operating systems as wells as the z990 series, P5 series, and RS/6000 SP servers are among the most fault tolerant and stable platforms in the industry. There's nothing wrong with being powered by IBM.

OK, I found it. Here's a description of the IBM technology that drives ebay.

Post by **chachi** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:40 am

Evan, I'm pissed to! I was gonna bid on that one as well

anyhow, thats one more point for the buyers!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 71007&rd=1

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:00 am

Like I said, I already bought my R10, but I paid a LOT more...

YouTube · Post by **wahiba** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:21 am

eBay is not perfect in the UK at 08:00 BST. A world wide problem :?

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:35 am

I poked around the eBay forums and the outage was possibly caused by hail and a storm in the Bay Area, where their main server farm is located. Until a few minutes ago, many of the functions were still offline - it looks like most of the functionality is back now.

Their policy on outages is that if a hard outage exceeds 2 hours, the auctions affected are automatically extended for 24 hours. Seems like this one was possibly less, since the Nikon auction ended. Ridiculous that some lucky guy gets it so cheap - basically rewarding him for being so naive as to bid several hours early.