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Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ll know that Twitter isn’t the first startup to have suffered scaling issues: the auction site had significant problems keeping the servers humming in its early days. Today eBay is giving users a small reminder of that era: eBay’s search engine is down, meaning goods cannot be found without using the category structure. With the holiday...
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Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ever want to own a (supposed) piece of cell phone history? An alleged engineering prototype of the Motorola Droid has shown up on eBay, with a starting bid of $485. The Droid, which runs Google’s Android 2.0 OS, was released earlier this month, with a price of $200 (subsided with ...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Users of the eBay auction site in and across the nation this evening have been complaining of problems with the site's search function.According to , "Due to errors in some of our backend systems, members may be seeing different errors in Search."Some eBay users have contacted the Tribune, complaining the problem is especially affecting them because they have auctions ending during the time...
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
Troubled online auction giant eBay can add a new problem to their ongoing issues today (Nov 21) with eBay search going completely down for all users. The issue, as the name suggests, results in eBay search not working by simply failing to deliver any results from the search box. A notice to the eBay systems announcement page [...]
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is having an issue which may have just cost sellers millions and millions of dollars in untold upside in combined auction results today. After doing random searches today on Christmas present chores and with eBay being one of the online destinations, it was suddenly evident that something was wrong on eBay. [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
EBay's main e-commerce sites suffered from sporadic failures on Saturday, limiting the ability of shoppers to search for products on the site in the lead-up to the crucial holiday shopping season.
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US News & World Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay Motors wants to make it more compelling for you to buy cars on its site, hence the introduction of free vehicle history reports. Peep the official press release after the jump… eBay Motors (www.ebaymotors.com) (NASDAQ:EBAY), the No. 1 online automotive marketplace worldwide, now offers free vehicle history reports through an exclusive agreement with Experian’s AutoCheck. [...]
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Engadget Mobile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wishing you could get a Motorola Droid and stand out from all your Android-toting friends at the same time? Then you might just want to consider bidding on this "limited edition" Droid prototype that just turned up on eBay, which has a reasonably good chance of being an actual Droid, and a slight chance of being an actual prototype. If the seller is to be believed, however, this particular...
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About Collectibles (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
If you were doing a search on eBay yesterday, you probably experienced problems. Problems that continued all day! Read more about the situation, updates and what eBay is planning to do about refunding fees to some sellers. Follow the news as it unfolds on AuctionBytes. More on the eBay Search Problems originally appeared on About.com Collectibles on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 06:10:47. Permalink...
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Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Link Alessandra Mussolini, a former showgirl turned MP, said she immediately informed the police when she found out. The listing, on auction site Ebay, reportedly showed images of a wooden container and ampoules of blood. Ebay, which does not allow the sale of human matter on its site, said that the listing was removed within hours. The initial price [...]
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The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay problems started with a little glitch in the morning then became a major outage around Saturday noontime. eBay Search is down -- outage left sellers and buyers worried. At 11:17 am PST, eBay posted an announcement that it was experiencing "some issues with a delay in search being displayed." Here is the latest update from ebay (6:12 pm EST) regarding this recent eBay outage:If you use...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
NEW YORK, NY-- eBay has the pulse of the fashion market because, "It's probably the only place that a person could come to and...
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IndyPosted (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay Search has been experiencing system issues today, with their sites search functionality returning no results. The error message is shown in the picture on this page. To check if the eBay Search down error is still occurring, simply click on the search box at eBay.com and try a search of ...
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TameBay (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you're having a problem getting into eBay UK tonight, you're not alone. eBay has announced that it is working to resolve issues with a delay in search being displayed. It's not so much slowness as stopped here; any search I run gets me no... Read more
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SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Scot Wingo submits: Around noon ET we started to get some inbound requests from sellers asking about the status of our systems because of unusually slow order flow. Everything was fine on our end. We realized that eBay's ( EBAY ) search system was having instability and ultimately a hard outage. You can follow the official eBay Announcement board here for details. At the time of writing, it looks...
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allanhale4 | 11/20/2009
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endarastuti | 11/17/2009
Luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. has sued eBay Inc., claiming the online auctioneer has aided violations of the Tiffany trademark by letting counterfeit items be sold on its Web site,...
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prmac | 11/13/2009
Texas based independent developer Brice Milliorn today announced the sale of JBMJBM, LLC. This is a well established company whose sole purpose is creating consumer applications for the iPhone platform. The business is currently listed for sale on eBay as a 10 day auction. 87 apps in all, some of his best-selling applications are Friday Night Lights, iSpy Game, iReferee, iSexyRef, iSexyRef2, Pro Rodeo...