broken links & the "We looked everywhere" page

[dasarock]

there are so many broken links and times that ebay coding now leads to the "we looked everywhere" page!  could this also be contributing to the lack of returning buyers?  thoughts anyone?

[packratville]

Just wondering, what are you doing when you encounter them?

I get them sometimes when I'm searching, but they've turned out to be for sold items over 90 days old, apparently. But I haven't encountered that message otherwise that I can recall.

[dasarock]

there have been several times the page comes up when I try to reply to a buyer's message … and several times here lately from various links from seller's hub … those seem to be random though...

it makes me think that maybe ebay doesn't have enough bandwidth to handle all the different types of traffic on here … so the default error page comes up ...

[3eyedfishcatcher]

That's what happens when your IT department doesn't double check their work.

[dasarock]

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@3eyedfishcatcher wrote:

That's what happens when your IT department doesn't double check their work.

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yep, and when they don't provide enough bandwidth for the platform

[3eyedfishcatcher]

As for band width after the last CEO stepped down / was told to resign or be fired I RED that other than selling of their most valuable asset PayPal just to create their own payment system. Which was redundant as they already had that. Another of his brilliant ideas was to reduce the number of servers that were being used down to bare minimum to try and reduce cost. So when there is high traffic and updates being run to fix errors from not checking their work when making unnecessary changes. If you get that error message just refresh 2 or 3 times till you can hit a server.

[dasarock]

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@3eyedfishcatcher wrote:

As for band width after the last CEO stepped down / was told to resign or be fired I RED that other than selling of their most valuable asset PayPal just to create their own payment system. Which was redundant as they already had that. Another of his brilliant ideas was to reduce the number of servers that were being used down to bare minimum to try and reduce cost. So when there is high traffic and updates being run to fix errors from not checking their work when making unnecessary changes. If you get that error message just refresh 2 or 3 times till you can hit a server.

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and that is another part of another problem … ebay always removing photos and only leaving one (maybe) … to save on server space and bandwidth usage

[eburtonlab]

I have noticed an increase in those "We looked everywhere" errors lately. Some of those seem to be browser dependent -- for instance if I open my Watch List page in IE11 and try to navigate to page 2 or beyond, I get that error very consistently now.

But it is not just IE11; I recently had difficulty loading my "Recently viewed" page in Firefox (That action cannot be completed), but had no problem loading the same page in Chrome or Edge. And it seems that some pages need two or three reloads to finally appear.

[dasarock]

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@eburtonlab wrote:

I have noticed an increase in those "We looked everywhere" errors lately. Some of those seem to be browser dependent -- for instance if I open my Watch List page in IE11 and try to navigate to page 2 or beyond, I get that error very consistently now.

But it is not just IE11; I recently had difficulty loading my "Recently viewed" page in Firefox (That action cannot be completed), but had no problem loading the same page in Chrome or Edge. And it seems that some pages need two or three reloads to finally appear.

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I use several diff browsers with my various accounts, E, safari, chrome and firefox.  I seem to get about the same number of errors with each.