I've been selling on eBay for several months now and have had no issues
whatsoever using my MacBook Air. None. Zip. Nada.
Chris, I believe you need to take your computer out into the desert, find a
reputable shaman, and see if the shaman can remove whatever foul spells
have been placed on you and your technology. Seriously. (Not <g>)
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder why you have such odd problems that the rest of us don't seem to
> encounter. I have no idea what it means to have evilbay "disable"
> "functions". Nor do I have any idea what it means for something to "time
> out at the system level". What is "the system"? How do you know it's
> timing out or where?
>
> I know very little about bikes but decided I'd play the part of a
> restoration parts buyer. Did a search for a "Raleigh crankset". Found one
> for 50s-60s bikes. Buy it now and everything else seems to be working just
> fine. I've never seen any of this stuff not work in probably 10 years of
> using ebay.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 9/12/2015 4:14 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>
>>
>>> I'm over at the bike shop using our MacBook Pro laptop. evilBay
>>> has disabled just
>>> about every function you can think of. Buy It Now is disabled and
>>> simply times out at
>>> the system level. You cannot contact any sellers. The shipping rate
>>> calculator says
>>> that my ZIP code is invalid. The "Help and Contact" page does not
>>> exist. The last system
>>> announcement was 10 September.
>>>
>>> This is American technology at its finest.
>>>
>>>
>> When I got back home I check the defunct evilBay URLs using:
>>
>> http://internetsupervision.com/scripts/urlcheck/check.aspx
>>
>> and sure enough, most of them timed out. I was finally able to get to a
>> Buy It Now item that I very much needed for a bike I'm restoring, but it
>> took a full 45 minutes to complete the transaction, mostly due to evilBay
>> timing out and disconnecting at their end. I endured this while at the
>> same time repairing my refrigerator, which had been partially broken since
>> last weekend.
>>
>> Maybe they'll have the shipping calculator working by tomorrow, but
>> I doubt it.
>>
>
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