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Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 5:58:50 AM

Aneirin

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Ok, is anyone having any trouble getting into either Hotmail or Ebay today, as I am. I use Mozilla Firefox on a Vista computer and I can't get into my email or ebay. It finds the sites, but after that, the little spinning circle to say it's working on it. It has been like this for the past couple of hours. I did get into Hotmail via IE, but it was very slow, like a minute between the page I wanted and clicking the select.

I have at the moment got my security software running just in case it is something on my computer, but so far it has come up with nothing. I have run AVG, Spybot, A squared and I am about to run Super anti spyware, but this one takes ages.

Is it my computer, Vista, Firefox, IE or the sites I want that are a being a pain today ?

I can get into other sites and forums I use with the same amount of speed as usual, no problems with them, just Hotmail and Ebay.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 6:07:11 AM

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Msn was acting up quite a bit yesterday. From what I'm told, they do routine 'maintenance' on their servers that act like a rolling blackout depending on where the servers are located.

Don't know about eBay, but keep trying or try later. If it's just two sites, the problem isn't likely with your 'puter.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 6:33:19 AM

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Have you updated to the new version of Firefox? They just had an update....
(updated yesterday and had no trouble with either site this morning)

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 6:37:52 AM

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It could be maintenance on the servers like restless said. I am not having any trouble with either hotmail or ebay here and us Vista as well.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 8:33:39 AM

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ebay was fucked up yesterday...no functions were working...nothing on ebays update page at the time about it...thank god i wasnt watching any important auctions at that time...i would have been pissed if outbid.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 8:45:47 AM

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ebay and hotmail were both working fine for me, also on vista and using mozilla.
Hope it starts working for you soon.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 9:20:05 AM

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My Hotmail works fine, didn't check Ebay, but I'm using IE on XP. (God, I have come such a long way

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 9:37:59 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: wandersalone

ebay and hotmail were both working fine for me, also on vista and using mozilla.
Hope it starts working for you soon.

Thank you, but my ebay is still stuffed up, as is the hotmail. Switching to IE, I can get into hotmail after about five minutes, which Firefox is still thinking about it as it is now five and a half hours later.

But my reason for wanting to get on ebay was I was bidding on something I wanted, which in end I won by using a sniping tool. I launched my bid in the last fifteen seconds and won the item and got it for a complete song, less than half price and it was a new item. As it is, these items I have been watching for a while to see what they tend to go for, a sum which is much higher than what I got it for. I suppose the low price was due to the fact that no one could get on ebay.

The tool I use is linked to ebay, but does not go through their site and as a result is very fast.

If you really want something, sniping is the way to go and it is a bit of fun.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 4:59:08 PM

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MSN and Hotmail did something last week that caused a lot of listserv problems, don't know if it is related to your experiences.

>Some of you have contacted me over the past week regarding occasional
> LISTSERV outages (including the web management and archive interface), as
> well as problems delivering mail to Hotmail and MSN customers. It turns
> out that these problems are related. Microsoft has decided to block
> delivery of our list mail to their customers because they feel that we are
> sending too much junk mail. However, they reject it with a temporary error,
> and so we retry several times an hour. Every time we are rejected, they
> return a lengthy error message, which eventually fils up our server logs,
> causing the entire LISTSERV system to stall.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 5:08:31 PM

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And in completely unrelated computer news...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10026301-93.html

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A representative from the FAA said a software problem in the administration's central system for processing flight plans, based in an Atlanta office, caused the system to go down at about 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. That failure prompted a backup system in Salt Lake City to take over flight-plan processing, but a backlog in the handover caused flight delays instead, according to FAA officials.
"There were about 5,000 flight plans in the system, but a lot of them were airborne and unaffected," said Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization. "The only flights that were affected were those that had already pushed off from the gates and couldn't get off the ground. It created a backlog."

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 5:24:28 PM

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Off Off topic... but in regards to ebay.

Ebay is going to die here shortly, coming september 16 they are changing there fee structure, and going to charge a whopping 15% FVF(Final Value Fee) on fixed price listings, in most categories. Of course they are making fixed price listings .35 for a month. But the numbers don't work out in the sellers favor if you already had a high sell through rate, effectively it's another FEEBAY increase.

What this will do since it is so cheap to list but much more expensive to sell (15% of sale price in fees), is cause prices to be set higher, on fixed price listings, because it is worth the wait (.35 for a whole month), and you need to sell it for more to cover the
FVF(15%). It will also drown out and disadvantage the regular auction format. As you can list for .35 for a month fixed price, at any price you want, compared to, paying more if you listed an auction 4 times, without a guaranteed final sale price.

Ebay is trying to reform itself into an Amazon style marketplace. My opinion is it is because of law suits brought against it because some sellers like to sell knockoffs, and they are actively pushing the small time sellers out.

Anyway, I'm done on ebay after the 16 of september, we are opening up a local store front after do a test run this weekend. I've been sick of ebay for quite some time actually. They've raised prices percentage wise year after year, and now, they are soliciting big manufacturers to directly sell on ebay, and giving them massive discounts, that smaller sellers don't get.

My advice don't invest in ebay, it's going to be a slow death as small sellers finally break out the spread sheet.

Sorry for the hijack, but ebay really has fucked everyone but the big sellers, and those that price there stuff to high already, as the only way the new fee structure will benefit you is if you had to relist like three times. That would in most cases indicate you were asking to much, or used poor title, and description, most likely though asking to much.

It does amaze me how companies self-destruct, by their own hand.

Now, most likely ebay will have a couple good revenue quarters before the downward spiral begins, because it'll take that long for sellers to A. sell off ebay inventory. B. Find a new place to sell. C. Just decide it's not worth it anymore. But during that time, they'll be raking in the new 15% FVF. So, I guess.

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RE: Hotmail and ebay - 8/26/2008 7:22:11 PM

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If you use ebay, just check out the community forums, there are so many sellers there just pining to bolt. But the problem is, where to.

It is not just the sellers that are getting miffed, the buyers too, many I know have finished with it through various reasons. With myself recently ebay did something no one knew about and made me lose my bid on an auction. I am also tiring of it, too many changes and guess what, ebay do not care as long as they have their fees. That fact is very apparent in the forums.

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