I am posting this now, before the naysayers jump on this in the morning:

***Scheduled Maintenance for August 20th***
Date: 08/18/04 Time: 01:27:30 PM PDT


The eBay system will be undergoing general maintenance from approximately 01:00 to 03:00 PT on Friday, August 20th. During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow.
Regards,
eBay

Message Address: http://www2.ebay.com:80/aw/marketing.shtml#2004-08-18132536

One of these days we will update our site to show a warning. We have it on another so I'm confident our guys can get it added.

Sara, until they do add it, why not place a note on the news and updates?

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Originally posted by Sniper Sara B.:
One of these days we will update our site to show a warning. We have it on another so I'm confident our guys can get it added.

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Every week it seems that someone posts up here that they cannot access the site - not realising that it's down for maintenance. How this can be as low a priority as it appears to be is beyond me...

R2

Glad to see that AS plans on addressing this, although “one of these days” doesn’t sound like it will be happening by next Friday. But, Chatter may have a temporary work-around. Perhaps he can be encouraged to refresh this topic every Thursday night (PST). Others have tried it (me for one), but we others always lose interest in the project after one or two Thursdays.

Not to be a naysayer, or nayslayer, or even a naystayer (soothsayer is more befitting): Is the tab for the forum still accessible from My Snipes when AS is down?

I’ve come to believe that suggestions from users (not just the “regulars”) are sincere attempts to improve AS (some may consider them criticisms and feel the need to be defensive). Lately I’m of the opinion that suggestions for improvements should be encouraged. After all, why put a link asking for suggestions, and add the additional incentive of 100 free snipes, unless AS wants to encourage suggestions?