Archive for November, 2006

I don’t know who’s bone headed move this was, but currently over at eBay I am getting more 404 errors than I have seen since eBay’s system crashed in the late ’90’s.

I thought at first it must have something to do with the PS3’s, and perhaps eBay’s servers were buckling under the heavy traffic.

BUT NO SIREEEEEEE !!!!!

Some lame brains at eBay decided to schedule maintenance during what could very well be some of the heaviest traffic eBay has seen in years.

This will no doubt anger many eBay sellers – present company included – as they try and list their auctions.

I was having trouble with some auctions that had errors in them after launching them from an auction managememt service. I have been trying to revise them but I can’t even get into my eBay store to view my auctions let alone make changes to them.

Sometimes I wonder how much eBay REALLY cares about it’s users … dumb ass moves like this doesn’t make it look like eBay cares at ALL.

I’m heading to the fridge to grab a beer and try and calm down, CHEERS.

Anyone who plays games, or has kids who play video games will have already heard about the buzz being created by the soon to launch Sony PS3, the latest game console to be released with limited supplies to overdemanding markets.

There’s no doubt we will see auctions on eBay close for more than $2,500 and is much of the reason gamers or profiteers are camping out in the cold to get their hands on a PS3.

I have a couple of articles over at TPRweb if you care to take a look.

Sony Playstation 3 ( PS3 ) Starting At $500

Sony PS3 Predicted To Sell Higher Than $2500 on eBay

Something else you can do, take a look at the auctions at the following link to keep an eye on the PS3 auctions on eBay.

Current PS3 auctions on eBay

Enjoy . . . Scott

I’m starting to get a love / hate attitude towards eBay after being active as a seller for the past two months. Sure I’ve bought and sold many items over the years but in the last two months I have been selling as much as I can (one more month to Powerseller, YEAH!), and I have to admit, I now see some of the frustrations of other sellers.

One of those being eBay’s “SP NOTICE” messages.

If you’re not familiar with them, if you get a spam related email or anything that eBay has been sent a report on, you will get a notice as an alert in your message folder. This notice is designed to warn you of the potential danger of replying or doing business with the people sending the spam message (usualy from china, they try and get you to buy their wholesale merchandise)

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