glad that lookandbuyme resurrected and revisited these previously unaddressed requests and issues and thanks to tony for giving a response.
the slowness is clearly our biggest issue. on sunday it was darn near impossible to get listings completed. forums were full of comments. it is clear that at least one of the slowness issues is lack of bandwidth at access/egress. all the tracerts show great latency. i am guessing the servers have issues too in managing the load and that may have been the other issue on sunday.