I was in the middle of a lengthy auction description when it ran into the Auctiva maintenance time. Couldn't that time down be after midnight? Or if some kind of warning could be implemented when the site is ready to sign off, that would be great. I will wonder all night if my description saved itself or if I will have to start all over again tomorrow! Thanks for the consideration.

Here in Chicago it DOES start after midnight. Yours is a suggestion that has been made many times. No matter what time Auctiva goes down for maintennce, someone will be unhappy. They do it at this time because it coincides with Ebay's maintenence, so it actually makes sense. I doubt it will ever change

Thanks for your reply. I figured as much but had to have someway to vent (just a little!) my frustration. eBay must have some system set up (like just posting it on a work page?) because this has never happened to me on there before and I am always working odd late hours. Anyway, I'm going to do my descriptions offline from here-on. And the work did completely disappear ... it was within a saved listing so I wonder why something can't just pop up when it goes to sign out of it to say "did you wish to save changes?" Sure would be nice!!!

Love the concept of Auctiva tho so its just one little "strike".