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The Auction Guild <tagn-@theauctionguild.com>
Date: Fri Sep 8, 2000 3:47am
Subject: TAGnotes Thur 7 Sep 2000 Vol 2 Number 130 Issue
212
The Auction Guild Notes for Thursday 7 Sep 2000
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eBay continues to experience problems with site outages and
intermittent nonavailability of services. On 5 Sep at 07:51PT
access to CGI 1, 3, 5 and 6 started throwing server reset
messages as reported on the OAI boards. Problems continued
intermittently until approx 13:32. The feedback system was
not working, My ebaY was down intermittently, but the
most persistent problem appeared to be in the cgi5 server.
The feedback system was back at 13:57 on 5 Sep. ebaY reported
at 12:15:42 PT on 7 Sep that listings in the Gallery had not been
updated since 16:00 PT on Wed 6 Sept. The Gallery time stamp
was reporting that listings were current as of 09:35 PT, Thurs
7 Sep and this was incorrect. If you feel your auctions were
negatively impacted by these various malfunctions, request refunds
from the form at http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
SendSupportEmailShow&subject=Credit%20--%20How%20can
%20I%20receive%20credit%20for%20insertion%20fees%3F%20
Send -
* The item number(s) of the ended auction(s)
* The specific fee(s) charged for them
* Your seller's email address or User ID
* The phrase, GIVE CREDIT in the Subject line
This can also be accessed from
http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-support.html
ebaY's phone system access number 1-888-749-3229
On 5 Sep ebaY celebrated its 5 year anniversary.
ebaY will hold another session of eBay University on Sat 9Sep
and Sun 10Sep in Seattle, Washington. For details go to
http://www.ebay.com/university/
ebaY has changed the local listing pages for the following cities.
http://pages.ebay.com/SanFrancisco/index.html
http://pages.ebay.com/Seattle/index.html
http://pages.ebay.com/SaltLakeCity/index.html
Email any input to golo-@e...
End of auction (EOA) notices from 3, 4 and 5 Sep are several
days late. ebaY is currently considering putting seller and buyer
contact information in the EOA notices. This info will include
email addy, actual name, city and state and phone numbers. If
you want to provide feedback, ebaY has a thread on their boards
where you can post your comments titled
Should ebay enclose contact information in EOAs at
http://remarq.ebay.com/ebay/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebay%
2Ethe%2Debay&tn=55183&sh=fee5b9bd4dd3bcd9&idx=-1
Users reported problems on the OAI boards with
Mister Lister on 7 Sep at 18:43. Problems with relists
were also reported.
eBay Picture Services are now available in Books, Movies, Music,
Coins & Stamps, Collectibles, Computers in addition to Antiques
& Art and Pottery & Glass categories. eBay Picture Services
allows 2 free photos per listing, an additional 4 photos for 50
cents, and a slide show format for $1. eBay plans Picture Services
in all categories later in September. TAG does not recommend
using the ebaY picture service because you are required to
download an ActiveX file, one of the most invasive of
tracking devices, and something not required by any
other pic hosting service on the net.
ebaY has five new category index pages for preview. Fifteen pages
are being redesigned. The first changes are in highly trafficked
category areas, and provide more room for directed advertising
banners and links. The preview pages can be found at
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/catindex-books.html
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/catindex-coins.html
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/catindex-movies.html
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/catindex-music.html
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/catindex-stamps.html
ebaY be down for regularly scheduled maintenance on Fri 8 Sep
between 01:00 PT and 03:00 PT
ebaY has a long post about fraud on the AB including a list of people
(by real name - a violation of ebaYs user agreement and a suspendable
offense) that ebaY claims they helped punish for defrauding buyers.
TAG is glad to see that ebaY does acknowledge that fraud happens
in a very small percentage of sales. Unfortunately they then go on
to hype their various fee based services once again leaving an
impression that if the seller (who in most cases pays the fees for
these services) does not use these services, they are not a safe
trader. ebaY recommends several things they feel bidders should do,
many of which TAG finds very hypocritical since ebaY does not provide
the services they are trying to force the sellers who use their
service to provide. TAG has lots of criticism for ebaY's suggestions
and will post them tomorrow on the www.auctionguild.com site on the
ebaY and Fraud page. TAG will also have the ebaY post in its
entirety in case it disappears from the AB.
Approx 4.92 million current listing
More unaccountable discrepancies - this number reflects an increase
of approx 140,000 listings since yesterday. Since ebaY typically gets
60-70,000 listings a day, this is a very large one day jump,
particularly as there were problems with Mister Lister reported today.
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
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Yahoo Auctions new selling procedures
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/auct/asell/asell-35.html
Basic site information http://www.auctionguild.com
Go to OAI Site Basic Details from left side toolbar.
30 Aug actual count 2.4 million. For all category counts for Yahoo
and eBay go to http://www.dtmagazine.com/auctioncounts.html
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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Amazon Auctions We strongly recommend you review the new privacy
policy and set your SPAM options.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/policy/privacy.
html/102-0822096-4093738
Basic site information http://www.auctionguild.com
Go to OAI Site Basic Details from left side toolbar.
Listings total 850254 (probably inflated by approx 2% due to listings
appearing in multiple category totals) 6 categories Extrapolated,
13 Actual, 11972 with bids The bid numbers might be low
because
they might not reflect take it auctions http://www.amazon.com
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OAUA The September Newsletter is out and can be found at
http://www.auctionusers.org/newsletter/
It contains links to the anniversary contest and prizes and several
informational articles. For first anniversary celebrations go to
http://auctionusers.org/birthday/birthday.html
JOIN the OAUA today. http://www.oaua.com
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The Million Auction March wants to move you to VOTE.
For more information go to http://www.millionauctionmarch.com
New Auction Houses, Sales Venues and Service Providers are
joining daily. All are offering incentives and specials to the OAI.
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Online Auction Family in trouble. This family had a fire in which
they lost their house, and one of their children was severely burned
and injured. OAI folks have started a fund for them and all help
would be appreciated. Link to the fundraising/prayer/well wishes
site http://hometown.aol.com/for2pfirefund/index.html
Link to thread on ebaY
http://remarq.ebay.com/ebay/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebay%2Ethe
%2Debay&tn=48487&sh=fc7471cd3500fe35&idx=-1
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If you would like an Auction House or Service Provider added to
this list, please email us at tagn-@t...
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