@tiramisu41 wrote:
eBay's mobile app has several known glitches. Nothing's been hacked. It's sloppy programming on the part of eBay's IT people made worse by not thoroughly testing the software/apps before they're deployed.
Well said. Those of us who have been here a while could tell some real horror stories about programming screwups, incoherent updates, incomprehensible notices and just plain misspelled words on the eBay site that took forever to resolve, and in many cases should have been detected in the first phase of peer review. (That's when you finish your code revisions, upload your revised code to the common source database, and flag it to be reviewed by the other members of your programming team.)
Just as a minor example, the Messages tab on the My eBay page had the word "Announcements" misspelled as "Annoucements" in the left-hand pane, and it sat that way for ages, until finally getting fixed within the past 1-2 weeks (by pure coincidence, shortly after I made a big fuss about it in another thread 
). That's the sort of silly mistake that should have been caught immediately and never gotten out as Production code, but it did.
In the case we're talking about here, the Mobile app (which has developed a bit of a reputation for sloppy programming and flakiness) is showing the buyer's offer message under the heading of "Message from <selller_name_here>", and I would put money on the probability that the programmer intended to have "Message for <seller_name_here>" instead.
In addition, given that the seller can make a counteroffer, and the seller can attach a note for the buyer in the same manner that the buyer can attach a note for the seller , it would not surprise me at all if the programmer got his prepositions completely mixed up (English, after all, may not be his or her first language), and the seller's message to the buyer will come out labeled as being "from" the buyer by mistake. It's also possible that he wrote the seller-to-buyer coding first, copied it to produce the buyer-to-seller messaging after that, and forgot to change his prepositions.
Were you hacked? No. As a seller for over 13 years and an Information Technology professional for 30+ years, I can assure you that your account is as safe as it was before, and eBay's software is as flaky as it ever was. I'll end this saga by quoting Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
-- Robert J. Hanlon
@a_c_green wrote:
@tiramisu41 wrote:
eBay's mobile app has several known glitches. Nothing's been hacked. It's sloppy programming on the part of eBay's IT people made worse by not thoroughly testing the software/apps before they're deployed.
Well said. Those of us who have been here a while could tell some real horror stories about programming screwups, incoherent updates, incomprehensible notices and just plain misspelled words on the eBay site that took forever to resolve, and in many cases should have been detected in the first phase of peer review. (That's when you finish your code revisions, upload your revised code to the common source database, and flag it to be reviewed by the other members of your programming team.)
Just as a minor example, the Messages tab on the My eBay page had the word "Announcements" misspelled as "Annoucements" in the left-hand pane, and it sat that way for ages, until finally getting fixed within the past 1-2 weeks (by pure coincidence, shortly after I made a big fuss about it in another thread
In the case we're talking about here, the Mobile app (which has developed a bit of a reputation for sloppy programming and flakiness) is showing the buyer's offer message under the heading of "Message from <selller_name_here>", and I would put money on the probability that the programmer intended to have "Message for <seller_name_here>" instead.
In addition, given that the seller can make a counteroffer, and the seller can attach a note for the buyer in the same manner that the buyer can attach a note for the seller , it would not surprise me at all if the programmer got his prepositions completely mixed up (English, after all, may not be his or her first language), and the seller's message to the buyer will come out labeled as being "from" the buyer by mistake. It's also possible that he wrote the seller-to-buyer coding first, copied it to produce the buyer-to-seller messaging after that, and forgot to change his prepositions.
Were you hacked? No. As a seller for over 13 years and an Information Technology professional for 30+ years, I can assure you that your account is as safe as it was before, and eBay's software is as flaky as it ever was. I'll end this saga by quoting Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
-- Robert J. Hanlon
Wow. Reminds me of the mistakes I constantly see on the AOL Welcome Screen with all the misspelled words and links that sometimes don't go anywhere.
Oh and ... the DSR reports I have been running? THEY MUST BE BROKEN!! I have been running them for eons .... and they have always given me results. Now I am getting less than 5.0 or NO RESULTS and I am absolutely positive my buyers within the last 2 weeks have ALL rated me 5 stars. (I know, I know, DSRs don't mean anything to anyone but me ... lol).
