posted on December 7, 2003 12:56:42 PM new
I just had an "ask seller a question" email, that reads as follows. "Hello, I am attempting to bid on the ******** set you have and eBay is telling me the item may no longer be available! I have no idea how this could be when the listing shows there is time remaining on this auction".
Is anyone else having the same problem? My auction for this item is due to close on Tuesday.
posted on December 7, 2003 02:43:41 PM new
According to Auctionbytes email eBay is having a lot of small problems and have been for awhile. They said that eBay is not posting them on their announcement board so we are not informed.
posted on December 7, 2003 02:46:13 PM new
I find that eBay often doesn't notify us of a problem until it has been put right, unless it goes on for a long time. I sometimes wonder what the point of the System Status board is.
posted on December 8, 2003 02:13:36 AM new
I have noticed for the last two weeks, if I try to do a search from ebay home page, the page just hangs. But, if i go to search and try, it works fine.
they just have too many little problems here lately.
posted on December 8, 2003 05:36:58 AM new
I am so tired of glitches on ebay and ebay doing nothing about it. They change what they want, fix what they want. Do they ever listen to us??? Us who is making them richer every second? NOOOOOO..
I say we plan a strike! Not list anything for a certain period of time and see what happens. maybe I shouldn't say that here but oh well, they will only shut down all of my auctions I guess
posted on December 8, 2003 09:10:59 AM new
Amber------
If you have a personal firewall on your computer sometimes it won't let you into certain auctions.
On some auctions that I try to get into my firewall window comes up and says that the andale, ebay, vendio or whoever the seller is using for auction services etc. is asking my computer for personal information. If I chose to block the information I get that same message you get, that it is no longer valid or something like that. I did find out if I do allow the information to be passed I can get into the auction.
You might check your firewall preferences and see what you have it set on, that is if you have a firewall.
posted on December 8, 2003 10:18:14 AM new
Does this mean that Vendio attaches a cookie to everyone who looks at our auctions? That can't be good news!
posted on December 8, 2003 11:09:28 AM new
I started not to even post my reply because I have mentioned this before and no one gets what I'm saying. I can't be the only one with Norton Firewall.
Anyway I have my firewall preferences programmed to warn me if anyone is asking for bank acct #, ss #, credit card #, phone #, or home address. On some auctions that I click on a big window comes up saying that "?*****?" is requesting Bank Account information #### do you wish to permit or block? I have to click on permit or block and then OK. If I click on "block" then the auction page comes up with the white page saying item is no longer valid or in system. But if I click on permit the auction comes up fine. I have my firewall set on High so that is probably why I get all these warnings.
In the Norton firewall you can go into personal information and fill in whatever numbers you want to protect. I don't have my SS number in because I haven't entered it in on a site, but I do have the credit card number and bank acct number since I have entered it on specific sites. I don't care if anyone has my bank acct. # because they can't do anything with it anyway. However I don't want some information out. I don't know why sites ask for this information anyway. It happens on vendio also and drives me nuts sometimes. It rarely happens but they go through periods of it.
Before anyone asks, NO I do not have to type in any information. The computer I am communicating with, or website I'm on, requests the information from my computer. If you don't have a firewall or if you have your preferences set low you won't get the warnings so you aren't aware of the information other computers are gleaning from your computer. Websites can get your email address from your computer and put you on their mailing list without your permission etc.
posted on December 8, 2003 12:35:48 PM new
It's not that Paws, I removed the firewall quite a while ago, caused too many problems. I don't know if the problem is solved or not, the person has not bid, so who knows!
