I’m just kinda curious, is this just a ‘customer’ board where we all complain to each other and nothing is ever done to resolve or fix any of these issues? For I scroll through and not only do I see these same things happening time and again over the years but for myself and my hubby, who runs our site with me, we continually get periods where Ebay seems to ‘check out’ and the app simply stops functioning properly without any changing on our part. Our listings that consistently sell in the high hundreds sometimes breaking the thousand mark will suddenly plummet due to unpredictable technical issues.... we know this is the reason our sales are effected for it effects us as buyers as well. As dedicated buyers, who shop specifically for customers working in an industry where items are difficult to find and extremely specific, we rely on the notifications to remind us on upcoming auctions as I assume our shoppers would rely on the same when our auctions are ready to pop. If they didn’t, we’d have to camp out on watch lists all day every day! However, the notifications have become suspiciously unreliable and items which we desperately wanted to bid on, and subsequently would have been more money to their sellers, have been missed and the time spent finding them, wasted. These notifications that turn on and off at will causing all our equipment to have to have the programs deleted and reloaded is not only a huge inconvenience but a massive cost as its happening more and more. It’s frustrating, maddening, and ultimately bad business. I have noticed, however, its been wonderful business for other ‘like’ competitors that apparently the bay doesn’t consider to be of threat to them and I must admit, we have been giving some of these a very serious look as its difficult to carry on as a ‘loyal’ member when the respect seems to be extremely one sided. As is clear by the thousands of ‘gripes’ over similar issues that obviously if addressed, aren’t being done so in any efficient manner in which anyone feels they’ve been resolved, I would hope this ‘community’ comes up with a viable way of bringing together the one thing that has clearly emerged from this endeavor. That is, there is a valid world of commerce willing and able to carry on despite and regardless of the ‘powers to be’ if there is a tool in which to conduct business through that is reliable. Many peoples from many places are perfectly happy to come together to buy and sell goods as have been done for centuries however, just like for centuries...those that govern the arenas where that business is conducted seem to inevitably drop the ball.
