503 Error

[scottiepup]

I use Inkfrog for listing and for the past few months almost every day several listings fail due to "503 error" - I don't know until I receive an email from Inkfrog the next day. I schedule my listings to go live from 3:30 PDT and usually have about 30 listings a day. Inkfrog says it's due to eBay's maintenance schedule but I've been on eBay for almost 20 years and never had this happen until about 6-8 months ago - just about the time Inkfrog pushed me into their Open program. Very frustrating! Can someone confirm this is an eBay issue or should I just dump Inkfrog?   

[dhbookds]

Ebay does do maintenance on Thurs nite/Fri morn........ and the systems can really go wonky then, but other days.........not that I know of.

Personally, I'd change the schedule to  7-8 am and see if that made any difference.      

[scottiepup]

I've been uploading my listings at the same time for over 10 years - my customes are accustomed to that time....lots of people are at work during the day and not able to look at their bids so I always end mine in the evening. Of course, eBay could always do their maintenance after midnight to avoid this but that's probably too much to ask.... 

[php4u]

Same problem here. Using Mojave OSX, with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, I cannot access the site:

[dollybeauty]

@scottiepup

Sites use the 503 error to avoid bad metrics from Google. Changing your timing might be a very good idea.