Ebay down (lose an auction late Wed?)

Still down 06:17 BST (that's GMT + 1)

At first I thought it was just my system...but when I got that same message directing me to the announcements board (which I, also, could not access) I knew it was something bigger than me.

Fortunately, I had no open auctions and was mostly just doing searches (for more stuff that I probably don't need to spend money on) and finally just called it a night.

Although I am curious...did anyone lose any auctions due to the problem? Was AS able to get through to place snipes?

WarriorNun

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"

The following can be found on eBay's System Announcements Board:

"***eBay Power Outage: Resolved***
Date: 08/21/03 Time: 12:29:44 AM PDT


This evening, eBay experienced a power outage at our primary hosting facility. Due to this power failure, all site functions, including the Announcement Board, were unavailable from 20:55 until 23:45. eBay worked with its hosting vendor to restore the site as quickly as possible.

In accordance with eBay's outage policy, since viewing and bidding were unavailable for more than 2 hours, eBay will be crediting all listing fees and has extended all listings scheduled to end between 20:55 PDT, 20 Aug and 02:00 PDT, 21 Aug for 24 hours. We will also be crediting the .10 fee for 10-day auctions for all listings that were active at 20:55 PDT."

Hi All

Thank you for your helpful answers.

I smell fish !