eBay: Up again, down again.

[Cody K]

Apparently eBay is down for a lot of people as of this morning. This is tough nuts, as there were a couple records I had been hoping for with the gavel coming down right about now.

The popular eBay auction site is down today across the United States, which has happened just as this part of the world wakes up. We’ve heard from a number of our readers and seen thousands of comments in the last few minutes about eBay not working in Chicago, New York, and even down in New Mexico.

It’s unclear if this is just a glitch that will be fixed in a short amount of time, or if this a longer downtime like we’ve seen within the last month when eBay went down across Europe and the United States.

Is eBay down for you today and if so, what US city are you seeing problems in? If you managed to sign in, then we’d love to know when things started to go wrong. The complaints we’ve received seem to show a complete outage with thousands not able to sign-in with iOS an Android apps, access the website, and more.

One Product Reviews reader said, “I just woke up and tried to make payments today, although eBay signs me out. Now I am being asked to re-register along with getting sent a new password”. Another added, “I’ve just got an error, it says my session expired and now keeps wanting me to sign in again”.

We’ve reached out to eBay for comment on their service going down on September 14th, although we ar yet to hear back and haven’t seen any official comments on Twitter just yet. Hit the comments to share feedback with the community. Story developing.

From here: http://www.product-reviews.net/2014/09/ ... orking-in/

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It was also down in the UK this afternoon, and when I tried to sign in I got "Oops! Page not found". It is up and running again this evening, but not all search functions e.g "Distance, nearest first" and "Mouse in for close-up view" are working.

This is the second time that eBay has gone down recently, and given their almost limitless resources it is time they solved the problem once and for all.

[Cody K]

I agree. I "lost" several records this morning because of the outage. I'm not sure whether someone, somewhere was still able to make bids, or if the auctions just timed out with the bids that were placed before the outage. (Which, if I were a seller, would make me pretty mad.) When prices start to get uncomfortably high, I habitually put in my final bid in the last few seconds of an auction -- I guess a lot of us do. When eBay screws up like this, it's lost items for the collector, and lost money for the seller: lose/lose. Humbug.

The site went up again about an hour after I posted the first post here. It really is time they solved the problem once and for all.