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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2026 11:16 am Post subject: |
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So this so called Hacker Team, is from IRAN and they attacked the United States over internet lines? I thought that websites from terrostic nations had were blocked, regardless of using a VPN or not. Like Google it does not like VPN and will block anything (in theory) from VPN. ebay has the money to do the same thing that Google does.
We should disable every form of computer internet if what 313 Team clams is true.
313 Team (also known as Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq – 313 Team) is an active, Iraq-based, Iran-aligned hacktivist group that emerged around December 2023. The group focuses on political disruption and psychological impact through cyberattacks on government and private sector organizations in the Middle East and Western countries.
Core Characteristics & Activity (2026)
Affiliation: Linked to Iranian intelligence (MOIS) and part of the \"Islamic Cyber Resistance Axis\".
Motivation: Politically motivated, usually acting in retaliation for actions against Iran, the Resistance Axis, or in support of Palestinian causes.
Methods: Primarily uses Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and wiper malware, rather than traditional ransomware.
Targeting: High-profile targets include government servers in the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain; energy companies; healthcare; and Western technology |
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2026 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| Ebay was hacked Sunday 3:00 pm. They were under a DDS attack from someone in the other side of the world. The problem was over about 9 pm yesterday. Yesterday there were very little compared to Sunday and Monday, but that's what happened. Some group claimed responsibility, but the only thing they did was program a bunch of computers to hit eBay all at once to the point were their servers overloaded (couldnt handing that many requests all at one time). So like every machine, they slow down or just crap out. |
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| Ignotum |
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:43 am Post subject: eBay Problems |
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...My suspicions appear to have been confirmed. According to Brave Search:
| Quote: | eBay is currently experiencing a major global outage linked to a suspected Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack claimed by the hacktivist group 313 Team.  The disruption began on Sunday, April 26, 2026, and has persisted for over 48 hours, significantly impacting both buyers and sellers. 
The attack has severely compromised key platform functions, including:
API Infrastructure: Third-party tools for listing management and inventory are largely unresponsive. 
User Experience: Widespread issues with search functionality, login attempts, and checkout processes. 
Financial Impact: Estimates suggest the prolonged outage is costing eBay approximately $200 million per day in lost transactions. 
While eBay’s official status page has provided limited updates, user reports and security monitors confirm widespread service degradation. The company has not officially confirmed the cause, but the timing and nature of the disruptions align with the claims made by the 313 Team. 
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| Ignotum |
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:39 am Post subject: eBay Problems |
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| Quote: | | Whatever this is (and it's no doubt serious), eBay is fighting it. |
It's still ongoing (at least it is here in the UK): I tried to make an offer on an item (directly, that is, without using Gixen), and I get a message saying that ebay.com refuses to connect --- irrespective of which browser I use.
I see that eBay have (finally) alluded to the issue on their System Status page (which I can't link, as it triggers this site's spam filter).
I've been using eBay for nearly a quarter of a century, and though I've had issues with eBay on occasion, I can't remember a time when it kept flaking out like this.
I'm thinking maybe it's a cyber attack.
WEF founder Klaus Schwab infamously told us to expect massive cyber attacks that would make the whole COVID-19 fiasco look like a \"small disturbance\". |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It worked for me. Autosnipegixen snipelist(showed in yellow).... |
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| JustBillMe |
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:15 am Post subject: It was a DDoS attack |
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| As I also sell on eBay, I got an email from eBay saying that I could backout of any auctions (I only sell Buy it now items) that I thought were affected without any repercussions. From sanjoseinside.com “The hacktivist group 313 Team (Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq) has claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has rendered critical platform services inoperable.” |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I've seen ebay.com home page failures several times today (reload generally fixes), and right now I'm getting edgesuite errors trying to do searches directly on ebay, so they're still having problems. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for being on top of this. Ich hatte keinesnipesnipesnipesnipesnipegixensnipesnipe still said \"scheduled.\" It's working now, though. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:31 pm Post subject: Working again |
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| Well, it just started working again. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:30 pm Post subject: Working again |
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| Well, it just started working again. |
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| mario |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Sniping not working now |
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| Quote: | | Getting no action on scheduled snipes. Not even the Network Error message I was getting yesterday. Can't refresh either. |
Scheduled auctions work for most users. What exactly do you see? |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:18 pm Post subject: Sniping not working now |
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| Getting no action on scheduled snipes. Not even the Network Error message I was getting yesterday. Can't refresh either. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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I implemented some workaround that seems to have resolved this for now. Bitte versuchen Sie es jetzt erneut.
I don't really like it, but it works. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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I just added 389916732072, but got an error on 206226557626.
It's an eBay problem, still, underneath.
I am looking into this to see if there is anything I can do. |
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| Mnuptown |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:52 pm Post subject: not taking bids |
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| i cannot place a bid on the app or website! Bitte helfen Sie! Id: 206226557626 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:51 pm Post subject: Unable to add auctions |
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I'm getting this error when trying to add items \"This item is not an auction - looks like a fixed price listing. Sie können nichtsnipe these.
Any simple ideas to restore the functionality? Maybe Uninstall and reinstall?
Thanks |
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| atcduck |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:10 pm Post subject: Still getting same fixed bid error as yesterday. |
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| Still getting same fixed bid error as yesterday. Still can not place a snipe. The problem is not fixed! |
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| DCP77 |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Still not accepting snipes |
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| Quote: | Gixen STILL giving same error message as yesterday, claiming the \\\"item is a fixed price item\\\" and cannot be sniped\\\" when it's an auction.
Item # 389916732072 |
auction item 389929775731 says it is a fixed price...seems this is still happening for several users indicating this |
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| JDCrawford33 |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:03 pm Post subject: Still not accepting snipes |
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Gixen STILL giving same error message as yesterday, claiming the \"item is a fixed price item\" and cannot be sniped\" when it's an auction.
Item # 389916732072 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| it is not working fine whoever stated this, just lost an auction, this sucks but oh weill, hopefully we get back soon and Gixen gives us some sort of compensation in the form of an extension for the trouble. |
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| 1bigfield |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:57 pm Post subject: same issue |
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| Still says ebay auctions are buy it now when they are auctions. |
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| two-brother-cards |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:47 pm Post subject: Watchlist import down |
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| Currently unable to import my watchlist still. US user. Not sure if the api is still down? |
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| norm19002 |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:46 pm Post subject: Same Issue |
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| EBay Item # 157853779726. It is saying item is not an auction. Whuch is incorrect. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: EBAY HAVING A MAJOR ISSUE |
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| Quote: | | At the moment, eBay is having a major issue. All calls to eBay are failing, and Gixen is not the only service being affected. |
I am having issues once again with the sniping. It was working just now, but now i am having issues again. Anyone else? |
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| jjchawaii |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I was wondering why I was able to manually bid and win a few grails at several thousand dollars cheaper than I was expecting.😂
The playing field was leveled last night; PHENOMENAL buying opportunity! |
Yeah, for some, this was an opportunity if you were manually monitoring things with a bid already submitted. I had a couple like that where I submitted a bid for what I was willing tosnipeit for. Just like with several other items, I was the only bidder until the last few seconds when the price would skyrocket by everyone else sniping on them. So since they didn't even submit a bid in the first place and their sniping service was also down, I won the auctions at super low prices. Definitely a win for some of us! Except I do feel bad for sellers that lost out on the potential added income that sniping can provide them. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Gixen Status |
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| Quote: | | Any way that we can get an alert or email notification when there are issues like this. I missed two auctions and did not receive the end of auction notice with Network Error until several hours later. An outage notifcation email would help. |
While I can't say if Gixen has that alert capability, I can say, that downdetector.com showed serious ebay issues yesterday, so one work around, albeit not perfect, is to sign up for an alert from a service like downdetector or on their app, for ebay. At least that way, if ebay is having an issue, like yesterday, you'd get alerted and can then come back to Gixen or do what you need to manually adapt during any service issues. I lost a few auctions yesterday, myself and I now know the issue was with ebay, not Gixen, so I immediately created an alert for eBay so I can stay informed at least on that end of the deal. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Lost out on a valuable one here:
eBay Item Number Time To End Bid Current bid Status Edit Delete
127819175546 US Lincoln Wheat Cent Collection 74 Coins Album 1930s 1940s Penny Lot (by vintage_by_valeriia (4015))
View Item Description S&H: 0 USD View Shipping Information Bids: 0
ENDED 227.00 29.00 USD (0 bids) NETWORK ERROR View Similar
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Life goes on. |
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| mario |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Gixen is working fine now. There were some failures (again) that started some 4 hours ago, and ended 3 hours ago, but since then it's been fine.
Whatever this is (and it's no doubt serious), eBay is fighting it. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:34 am Post subject: |
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even the API status page is down right now.
developer.ebay.com/support/api-status
isitdownrightnow.com/developer.ebay.com.html
downforeveryoneorjustme.com/developer.ebay.com?proto=https
onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?&url=developer.ebay.com/support/api-status |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 10:20 am Post subject: |
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The issue was back a few hours ago, and lasted again an hour or so.
I don't understand for sure what's going on, but reports of access to eBay being blocked from certain locations might be an indicator that eBay is under some sort of attack. It's just my guess, I have no evidence of this. They will probably release more information soon. |
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| Banako |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 9:37 am Post subject: Outage Comments |
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FYI
I was online at that time trying to bid manually, make offers, and BIN.
None worked correctly. Some bids and offers appeared to work intermittently, but BIN was DOA)
I even tried an old trick to use ebay.uk and some others locales while it was down. That didn't work either. Finally ebay got running again and things appeared ok.
No sniping options would/could work when the ebay system is not responding properly to even manual activity.
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Can\\\'t get any bids to upload |
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| Quote: | | Trying to enter somesnipes, but the page just keeps processing. Guess it's back to manual for now..... |
And now they are going through. |
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| starwars |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 9:31 am Post subject: Can\'t get any bids to upload |
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| Trying to enter some snipes, but the page just keeps processing. Guess it's back to manual for now..... |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 9:04 am Post subject: |
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An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #97.45551702.1777309335.515cab0
This was happening yesterday before the outage, and it's happening again today. |
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| pootshwan |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 8:26 am Post subject: bids |
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| I saw it wasn't accepting new snipes with an error saying the auction was a fixed auction, so I was waiting until the final seconds to place my bids last night like it was 2001 again :wink: |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I was wondering why I was able to manually bid and win a few grails at several thousand dollars cheaper than I was expecting.😂
The playing field was leveled last night; PHENOMENAL buying opportunity! |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The bidding is back to normal as of 2 hours ago, with no intervention on my side.
As for email - unfortunately Gixen cannot send so many emails at once without being blocked by mail services. |
Would it be possible to have this as a feature for premium users? Or is that still too many emails? |
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| skihard |
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 8:01 am Post subject: NETWORK ERROR |
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| Still receiving \"NETWORK ERROR\" 4/27. NO bids not going through. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like DDos attack on APIs so someone could secure a lot withoutsniper bot competition. Pissed me off when it affected a lot, but luckily I caught it an hour before a holy grail ended and got to enjoy the thrill of manually sniping among the rookies and lightweights while the automated bots failed. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Indeed, Ebay have some difficult questions to answer... and if they're going to be fair some compensation to pay, at least to sellers. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 12:29 am Post subject: |
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For people pissed about Gixen not working, pump the breaks on the outrage for a minute. eBay was down for thousands of users.
For everyone pissed about not being able to buy items at low prices, the prices were artificially low because buyers couldn't bid.
Let me repeat that. Prices were artificially low because other buyers couldn't bid.
So don't be pissed because you thought you missed out of a deal. Sellers really got screwed too.
x.com/eBay_Japan/status/2048605760746369137?s=20
FWIW, there are claims of a massive DDoS attack.
x.com/DailyDarkWeb/status/2048518186979738111?s=20
(I tried to upload screenshots, but I think images are blocked from uploading. If an admin wants to convert the links to images, please do so.) |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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According to Gixen's records, the outage lasted from
Sun Apr 26 12:47:46 2026
until
Sun Apr 26 20:52:01 2026
(pacific time zone).
I am sure there will be an official update by eBay on this. |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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The bidding is back to normal as of 2 hours ago, with no intervention on my side.
As for email - unfortunately Gixen cannot send so many emails at once without being blocked by mail services. |
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| jzwick |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 7:50 pm Post subject: Gixen Status |
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| Any way that we can get an alert or email notification when there are issues like this. I missed two auctions and did not receive the end of auction notice with Network Error until several hours later. An outage notifcation email would help. |
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| cityofchi |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 6:51 pm Post subject: ebay errors |
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| Quote: | | Update: eBay is still working on resolving this issue. It's a major outage that we haven't seen in long time. |
Thanks for updates admin. How do we signup for forum updates or email updates when you announce its resolved?
Thanks |
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| DANG47078 |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 6:05 pm Post subject: Will ALLsnipes fail during this ebay outage? |
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| I have a snipe still scheduled for tomorrow but am wondering if I need to watch manually if the item is still showing as scheduled. I wasn't going to be online but don't want to miss out either. Please advise. |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Agreed. I lost 3 extremely important auctions today. Really sad. |
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| ctz21 |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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I wish you would have sent out an email to subscribers or something.
I set a snipe a few days ago on an auction that ended today. I would have seen the email before the auction ended and manually bid.
It ended with the \"NETWORK ERROR\" status :( |
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| gemint |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 3:55 pm Post subject: eBay Failure |
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| I'm glad it's not only me. All my snipeDie Angebote werden abgelehnt. Die Begründung lautet, dass es sich um Festpreisangebote handelt, die nicht verhandelbar sind. sniped. They are not. |
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| DANG47078 |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 3:47 pm Post subject: Same issues with bids cancelling |
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Ebay ID: 366347001898
This auction was cancelled due to it saying it was a fixed bid.
Ebay ID: 188288476498
I missed this auction because it was deleted before it ended. I would have won this as shown in my history.
Can you post once this issue is resolved? I have other active bids that I'm worried about. Thx! |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Update: eBay is still working on resolving this issue. It's a major outage that we haven't seen in long time. |
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| mario |
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 12:27 pm Post subject: EBAY HAVING A MAJOR ISSUE |
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| At the moment, eBay is having a major issue. All calls to eBay are failing, and Gixen is not the only service being affected. |
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