ebay Site Crash Fail! Major Search Outage Live News

ebay site pretty much down for the count on November 21 2009.
Cappnonymous gives visual demonstration, advice and commentary.

The vocal audio is my opinion, based upon and supported by my observations of the facts.

Update -02-12-2009
Please read this blog follow-up:
ebaY Search outage failure Aftermath
http://tinyurl.com/yfj2959
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfj2959

update 11.22.2009

Lorrie Norrington has issued a statement:

"We are really sorry about the technical issue that resulted in searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day on Saturday, Nov. 21. We know this search issue may have disrupted your business. Our No. 1 priority has been to identify and fix the issue as quickly as possible, and restore full search functionality. Our teams are working around the clock to do that. Search functionality is returning to eBay.com throughout Saturday evening, PST, and we expect full search functionality to be restored Sunday...."

continues...
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200911212255271.html


So has Ming The Merciless:
(paraphrasing)

The public release of false and deliberately misleading information designed to deceive investors is a violation of SEC regulations.

Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Complaint Center
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549-0213
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce.shtml

Tips and Complaints: http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml

Online complaint forms: http://www.sec.gov/complaint/selectconduct.shtml

Users affected by this or other ebay-paypal issues may wish to file complaints here as well;
http://www.nlpc.org/report-corruption

Related post at auctionbytes blog:
Major Search Outage Leaves eBay Shoppers Empty-Handed

http://tinyurl.com/yfb72ow
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfb72ow

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[cappnonymous]

Viewers here may wish to expand the (more info) area, follow the link to auctionbytes, where the situation is getting very ugly with regards to how ebay is attempting to trample a seller's freedom of speech by stating they will shut him down if he posts his live help chat, which shows eb for what IT really is.

Hope everyone makes LOTS of noise about that!

[rburton34]

Idiots. eBay does this crap every year at this time. It is a stunt to get people to go to eBay, get people to talk about eBay, get people to post videos about eBay... eBay, eBay, eBay... Guess what - their traffic is up 14% today.

[cappnonymous]

Hello rburton34

Thanks for watching & commenting.

My hunch is that the bulk of that extra traffic was users searching as tests to see what is still broken.

Quite frankly, after all that ebay has out it's sellers through in just the last week I would be surprised if their holiday season is not a complete wash and epic fail.

That porn and adult content cross promotion ads on live listing situation is a real outrage.

They purposefully LIED and ambushed sellers with that imo

[4043724425]

OMG I just put in a refund for my item right before this... Perfect timing...

[cappnonymous]

Lucky you.

There are lots of unlucky and unhappy campers for sure.

Apparently ebay is already stating no refunds according to blog comments by those whom have spoken w them via phone.

[ebaydirtylaundry]

I hope everyone requests a FULL FEE REFUND!

[crazymj]

You can still get to the items on your "watching List" So its a great opportunity to grab some really cheap items that you had your eyes on. Of course it works both ways, if you're selling something u're going to get owned too.

[cappnonymous]

I recall on year just before the holidays we were popping up into other people's "my ebay" pages.

2005?

It was hilarious, the denial, but we all saw it, and had it happen.

[cappnonymous]

Thanks for posting the video response. :)

[cappnonymous]

Thanks for chiming in with that, crazymj