eBay: Slow as Hell

geeklineMember

I am wondering... every 15 minutes thier site locks up for me and I cant even list items or leave feedback. Everything is slowing down to a crawl. I know this is probably because of the sceduling of auctions.

But eBay has loads of money. Gobs of it in fact. Why dont they buy more servers and some more bandwidth to handle this load? Why dont they buy a couple of super computers (Cray?) so that we dont have to deal with all this? They only cost a few million each and for a company like them that's chump change.

2/1/0412:19 PM

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shirleyMember

I second that! But do you think the average user ever notices the slow-down? Judging by the number of posts here about the snipe-lag issue, I doubt it.

I guess if someone could show the number of bids that were being missed during those periods, resulting in lower $$ wins, resulting in lower $$ eBay fees, then they might think about it!

2/1/0412:26 PM

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mrsmMember

I have been listing for a while and have not had a slow down. It seems to be truging along very normally!

2/1/0412:29 PM

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geeklineMember

I normally dont notice it but I am really noticing it right now. I can't get anything done! I cant list, I cant file a NPB against this little jerk that has had all month to pay and I can't leave feedback for my well-behaved customers.

2/1/0412:35 PM

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rickMember

Seems like a normal day for response time. But, I've only been bringing up new auctions, My ebay, and a few feedbacks. Can't comment on the other areas.

2/1/0412:35 PM

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mrsmMember

I have been doing listings for some time. It must be your server or something.

2/1/0412:37 PM

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geeklineMember

quote:
Originally posted by Mrs.M:
I have been listing for a while and have not had a slow down. It seems to be truging along very normally!

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Maybe it is Comcast again. Now that wouldnt surprise me at all. I would get a different ISP if only they had some competition around here. I am so disgusted with them (we have a 12 hour outage at least once a week and several smaller ones each night - so much for "always on") that I have been talking with a lawyer in Chicago about hitting them with a class action lawsuit.

However, all other sites online seem to come up normally, so I think Comcast might be innocent this time.

2/1/0412:38 PM

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jlr43Member

I have Comcast. I've been on ebay on and off all day and haven't had any problems.

2/1/047:38 PM

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geeklineMember

Well, it must be eBay set a cookie on my system to make my connection really slow - probably a payback for putting the little no paypal thing in my auctions. Looks like someone at eBay is out to get me.