Ebay’s latest glitch
24. Nov, 2009 By: GBell 
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If you were searching for items on Ebay on Saturday, you probably found out that you weren’t getting any results or at least a very few. This was because Ebay’s search service was down all day Saturday and was restored by Sunday. The best part is that Ebay states that it will compensate sellers for the outage, but we are wondering how they plan on doing so. Will each seller get the same amount or will it be based on auctions or listings that were closing on Saturday? Will it be every Ebay seller, or just a select handful that gets compensation? These are the questions that we have for Ebay sellers that were affected by this issue. Let us know how Ebay plans on compensating you.
With these glitches and severe changes of their platform, how does Ebay expect to survive against Amazon in the ecommerce space? Ebay was the one in auctions, but from what we have heard and seen, they are moving more to fixed priced listings and they will never be able to compete with Amazon in that space. It just won’t happen because Amazon is just too big and their platform works well with a simple fee structure that anyone can adhere to. We will see the future of Ebay soon enough.
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This glitch affected us and we realize that ebay is trying to help by making sure our metrics are not affected during these auctions, but our customers do not care, they got a great price on most of our auctions, so either we have to give them the product, or piss them off and cancel the auction, so we don’t lose money. Most of us will just lose money, so ebay’s decision is not really helping us.