CA Ebay Buyer - Workaround at Bottom!
There is something seriously wrong with the Ebay site that has been going on for the past two or more weeks. Initially. I thought it must be my computer and tried all the normal things like clearing the cache and cookies, re-booting and trying different Internet browsers but that had no affect on resolving the problem.
Ebay pages as of late will work, if I am lucky for about 20 or 30 minutes or as little as 2 or 3 minutes at a time, then without warning every new page or refreshed current Ebay page goes haywire. New and refreshed Ebay pages will load some picture thumbnails but completely out of their normal order and scattered to places they are not supposed to be, many pages of sporadic text along with misaligned and improperly sized text, some links work but most will not.
I can not purchase anything on Ebay when the pages miss-load or email anybody, view pages, look at items I won or anything else that needs to function properly in order to find and buy products on Ebay. It's extremely frustrating. I have been unable to bid on items I was intending on buying because I was unable to get the page to load so I could click the buy it now button. I have spent hours more than I do normally on Ebay just trying to get the pages to load correctly. One needs an incredible amount of patience in order to search and buy anything because of this constant intermittent issue.
I use Firefox to browse the Internet but have also tried using Internet Explorer and Palemoon. I find that when Ebay pages in refreshed opened tabs or new Ebay tabs miss load in Firefox I can not get them to correct by refreshing or re-booting either the computer or Firefox. Using any of the other Internet browsers I have tried I also experience the same problem. The only way to get the Ebay pages to load properly once they are acting up is to wait and give it time. I find that if I wait 5 or minutes and then re-fresh the page they load correctly, until it happens again! It's a vicious cycle which has not stopped happening for me.
Like others have said, there is nothing about it mentioned when I did a Google search so up until now I thought it was my computer. I'm so glad now to have found this site and know that this is an Ebay issue rather than my computer. I hope Ebay will correct this soon.
I have discovered a work around that is important to helping Ebay diagnose what is causing this to happen. My workaround is as follows. As explained above using one computer (desktop) viewing Ebay pages that go Haywire will remain that way no matter what I do other than waiting at least 5 minutes for the pages to correct themselves. However I have found that while the Ebay pages are haywire on one computer I am able to view the same Ebay pages properly at the same relative point in time as long as I use an alternate computer do so.
I am not computer technician but the clues learned through my experience says to me that whatever is going on to cause this situation may have something to do with the way Ebay allocates the amount of information that is sent out. It's almost like your allowed to go 85 MPH but as soon as you go past that through opening, closing, viewing and searching Ebay windows etc. you come to an abrupt halt. Give it some time and then you can start over again. This would explain why trying a different computer that has not been on Ebay will work.
