ebay gave me 16,500 free listings

[7198dave]

they started in 2012 and just now getting it , and they expire in 2038.

[nmemoryof]

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@equid0x wrote:
Accept the offer and take screenshots. If they refuse to honor, contact your state's Attorneys General office for false advertising.

If they display the offer to you and you accept, you have executed a contract with eBay that they are required to honor the offer unless they want to settle with you.

FWIW: January 19, 2038 is the end of the Unix Epoch Timestamp which started on 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 and counts the number of seconds since that date. This is the standard by which all timestamps are typically counted on UNIX(Linux, BSD, whatever) systems. IE: when you store a date on a unix computer it is stored as the number of seconds that have ticked since 1/1/1970.

What this means, most likely, is that someone has made a programming error and overflowed a signed, 32-Bit Integer value in the code, which has defaulted to the max value for a signed, 32-Bit Integer. In other words, the max number of seconds from 1/1/1970 which equates to 1/19/2038.

I don't place a lot of stock in Wikipedia, but here is an article that describes the problem, which has been well known for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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nah...give them a break.  They obviously didn't mean to do it.

[hurryagain]

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@greg5000 wrote:

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@kanengle wrote:

I just got charged $5.00 in insertion fees even though I had these offers!!!!  **bleep** Ebay!!!  I give them no benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to just another one of their decisions to rip off people.  Along the same lines of GTC listings.  They must have made millions of off that fiasco.

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I'm ~ 2/3 of the way through this thread and this one made me think ...

What if this was an "Intentional Glitch" ... intended to get Sellers excited so they would list many items? 

Seller Listings may be reducing, as Sellers are not happy and leaving.  The recent Listing/Shipping Label/Messaging "Glitch Day" didn't help eBay.

eBay revenue may be reducing, and this would be a way to grab some quick Listing Fees to help the Quarterly Numbers.

Just a conspiracy theory? ...

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@greg5000 

...the conspiracy theory is growing!... 

Again!!

[nmemoryof]

I got one of those.  LOL.  Oops.

[nmemoryof]

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@0769gjc wrote:
Same here. What's this all about???

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I don't know what it's about, but mine is gone.  I figured it was just a booboo.

[Anonymous]

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@dhbookds wrote:

Waaaaaaa..........I didn't get any.....Boo HOO!!!              NOT fair...........

@Anonymous 

tyler@ebay 

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to confirm that this issue was identified and resolved by our tech teams shortly after it occurred. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused!

[ersatz_sobriquet]

Seems like some free listings should be passed around to everyone. A little charity for the forgiveness of sending these faux free listings. It wasn't confusion on our part. 

[sd-brightis]

How do I get it?

[greg5000]

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@hurryagain wrote:

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@greg5000 wrote:

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@kanengle wrote:

I just got charged $5.00 in insertion fees even though I had these offers!!!!  **bleep** Ebay!!!  I give them no benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to just another one of their decisions to rip off people.  Along the same lines of GTC listings.  They must have made millions of off that fiasco.

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I'm ~ 2/3 of the way through this thread and this one made me think ...

What if this was an "Intentional Glitch" ... intended to get Sellers excited so they would list many items? 

Seller Listings may be reducing, as Sellers are not happy and leaving.  The recent Listing/Shipping Label/Messaging "Glitch Day" didn't help eBay.

eBay revenue may be reducing, and this would be a way to grab some quick Listing Fees to help the Quarterly Numbers.

Just a conspiracy theory? ...

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@greg5000 

...the conspiracy theory is growing!... 

Again!!

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The Conspiracy Theory was Growing, while the Board was in the process of Showing, the Door to the CEO ... so we wonder, did they Know the sales were Slowing? 

[greg5000]

How quickly this "glitch" was fixed, yet so many others take days, weeks, and months to resolve ...

[morsto12]

I got them as well a couple of nights ago. Again no way to accept them and nothing in messages. I tried to use but charged me. I figured it was because I don't do global shipping so was going to try to change my listings the next morning, But they took them away as fast as they gave them. That upset me loads because I have lots of stuff to list.

[ohyesidid]

I don't think they like any of us..lol

[bigdeals.etc]

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@greg5000 wrote:

How quickly this "glitch" was fixed, yet so many others take days, weeks, and months to resolve ...

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Well let me ask you this... do any of the other glitches cost ebay any revenue loss when implemented???

[greg5000]

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@bigdeals.etc wrote:

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@greg5000 wrote:

How quickly this "glitch" was fixed, yet so many others take days, weeks, and months to resolve ...

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Well let me ask you this... do any of the other glitches cost ebay any revenue loss when implemented???

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This is a trick question ... because eBay didn't allow their "Glitch" to be implemented. 

In this case, Sellers' who believed this was a "Real Promotion" and listed items, may have had Listing Fees generated as a result (so this would be a Revenue Increase). 

Most of eBay's "Glitches" are "instantly implanted" and many result in revenue loss, directly and indirectly.