Alert: Site Maintenance Mnnday, March 6

Dam you people who just talk on the NEWS site. Go to the LOUNGE if you are bored and can not work! This board supposed to be for information on the Auctiva system and not your lunch hour or where to host your photos for free. With all this sh*t in the forum how can those of us who really want information find it through all your bs!

Why are you not allowed to use BIN?

- Sports Corner - very good constructive advice...crap happens and you just can't rely on everyone else to take care of your problems for you! I like the way you think.

Hey - We aren't bothering you - so quit cussing us and go play with everyone else in the forum who just wants to gripe

I am off to manhattan anyway . See ya's here later to tell you how I liked the city. I can't use bin because AI list in the MA section.

Yo - usold, get over yourself and go get an attitude check, no one listens to an a@@hole.

OH!! OK I sell Disney kids stuff - sooooo..... we probably shouldn't ever cross-promote! LOL! Enjoy the expo. It looks cool

I also sell Metropolitan Museum Of Art Books and other Museum store items on another account. But right now I am not set up for that.

Sharky, I didn't list Thursday because they said it would be Thursday (the server change). I didn't want my best night ending without photos. Then it changed again. And again. I had already run my 10 cent fixed price campaign for Tuesday starting last Tuesday. I had NO clue these 100 items would go into final hours with no pics. Even when I finally checked what was going on over the weekend, I had already started my shopping, pics & so on for this week. I can't not list this week due to this crap again. Had I spent my time copying the photos onto my hard drive, I would have put myself back a couple days (just for those fixed priced listings). My family just moved into a new house & I barely had time to list & had to deal with this.

For those that mention free, it isn't free. You pay for it in some way, by referral or loss of revenue. I don't use Auctiva because of the price. I LOVE the program, when it works. Even if it is listing, what good is all that time wasted listing to have no pics. Those of us who listed all last Tuesday to take advantage of the fixed price day didn't expect this issue to be ongoing, still. No way would I have wasted time listing anything to close on Tuesday, had I known the day was Tuesday. Now, my best listing day, Thursday, has nothing ending on it & I loose out on sales today.

And I agree with Sharky, I'll post what & where I want to. This isn't a lounge topic.

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Originally posted by dawnblue:
OH!! OK I sell Disney kids stuff - sooooo..... we probably shouldn't ever cross-promote! LOL! Enjoy the expo. It looks cool

Hey thats reminds me.

Why did Mickey Divorce Minnie?

I better not say it you'll hit me with a frying pan. NVM.

yeah - because she was ....... goofy

I still do not see my pictures but I am getting great bids on an item with NO pictures. It ends tonight. Very Interesting!

Believe it or not - my GRANDMOTHER told me that joke

Wow! Mike - that's terrific! No pics here either. No bids though. I uploaded 100 BIN items on ebay .10 day and they all end today - well the ones that hadn't sold - about half. I'm just kicking myself on that timing - totally my fault. I misread the PST part

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Mikebiker
Apprentice
Posted March 07, 2006 09:22 AM
I still do not see my pictures but I am getting great bids on an item with NO pictures. It ends tonight. Very Interesting!

Glad somebody has bids with no pics... I only have one for now..alot went this weekend. but several still ongoing...

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Originally posted by dawnblue:
yeah - because she was ....... goofy

HEY Your not supposed to do that ya know.

OK Michelle 3 times I tried to write this and 3 times I deleted it.

On saturday I posed a poll asking if they should make the move monday and get it over with , or postpone it until next monday 3/13 so we can decide if we want to have listings ending monday and tueesday. Of course everyone said get it over with. I know not everyone has the time to come here me included but I still think they should have moved the servers mnext monday and on saturday they could have sent a mass email to everyone and let them know 9 days in advance that monday 3/13 the site would be down.

I had to come back because I forgot to leave food for the kitties and also I am going to wait until 4pm to go because I want to get to the PO box today. So your stuck with me.

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Originally posted by dawnblue:
Believe it or not - my GRANDMOTHER told me that joke

I over heard my uncle telling it when I was like 6 years old.

OK I have Entemans chocolate chip cookies and milk calling me.

Yes, Pete. I agree. 100%. I agree too that it is nice to get over with, but I think it would have been best to give more notice to prepare. Not affect our money any more than it did. I personally don't like Mondays & Tuesdays & could have worked around it had I known. It was originally set for Thursday. So, I re-arranged my whole week around that.

On 2/26 Jeff posted a thread that said they were going to move it on thursday or friday. That still wasn't enough notice if you want to post 7 day listings. Then he told a bunch of people tyo use andale and some other sites if they don't like it here. Nice guy huh. Yeah I'll use auctiva insurance now for sure.

NOT!!!

the thing is that we had ebay hobbiest here and not the serious sellers saying "how can we complain about the site." and "How is it killing our business." My response was "Some of us rely on ebay to eat. We are not getting rid of junk we dont want or have another income and doing this for fun."Some people just don't get it. Yes It's a free site but there are sellers here who still on the site working and the staff making decisions responsibly and giving us enough time to decide what is best for our business. (some idiot actually told me to grow up when I said that) How would Jeff feel if the new data center people just decided that toinght they were going to pull the plug and move servers around. The CEO seems to not think this effects the users business here.

OK I am done. Back to telling mickey mouse jokes and talking about the muppet show because I know "usoldwhat" is just waiting to continue that converstation

So what happened to Friday server move? Its Tuesday, I still cant list, and I cant go anywhere but the message forum.

When I started using Auctiva my boss thought it was the best idea ever, free listings. And now We havent been able to list stuff since Friday and hes not happy. This all comes down on me that it doesnt work.

ANY idea when this will work again?

And if your fixing things here are some ideas!
-add a "Store catagory" so I dont have to keep editing it in ebay.
-make a "shipping will be determined after auction" selection, some things have to be packaged before they can be quoted! I have to keep fixing that in ebay too.

almost... i can feel it... i hope they announce how it is going and how they expect it to work tonight.... fingers crossed

OMG! Are you bored?? LOL! I thought you were leaving, so I went to relist some ebay items - don't need auctiva for that - I come back and you're ranting

I would never use Andale - they screwed me royally. I missed that thread where Jeff said that. As a web site owner, I understand though. I have told people to go take a flying leap off into deep water before.

I am not a hobbyist, but I run two companies - one is my eBay business and the other is web designing. If I relied solely on my eBay business to keep a roof over my head, I don't think I would use Auctiva - I would need something more reliable. But I do rely on eBay for about 1/3 of our household income - not to mention it pays for our annual Disney passes. I really like Auctiva so far (but it's only been since September.

Hopefully, the server move will fix the problems. If not, I will have to move on elsewhere - although I would hate to do that.

Now - just for USoldWhat's benefit - tell me some more Mickey jokes you goofy dog! LOL

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Originally posted by midsouthgames:
So what happened to Friday server move? Its Tuesday, I still cant list, and I cant go anywhere but the message forum.

When I started using Auctiva my boss thought it was the best idea ever, free listings. And now We havent been able to list stuff since Friday and hes not happy. This all comes down on me that it doesnt work.

ANY idea when this will work again?

And if your fixing things here are some ideas!
-add a "Store catagory" so I dont have to keep editing it in ebay.
-make a "shipping will be determined after auction" selection, some things have to be packaged before they can be quoted! I have to keep fixing that in ebay too.

They posponed fridays move to 9pm Pacific standard time monday. The site worked fine all weekend? It has only been down since last night.

-add a "Store catagory" so I dont have to keep editing it in ebay.

If you look at your ebay settings you should see a button that says "update store catagories" it's under the setting catagory.

make a "shipping will be determined after auction" selection, some things have to be packaged before they can be quoted!

In the shipping profiles they have an option to use a shipping calculator. You type in the weight of the package and how you are sending it. i.e. Priority mail, or first class mail, etc and it puts a calculator in the listing that the buyer can enter their zip code and it gives them the exact shipping amount. You can even add handling and it will calculate it right in without the buyyer knowing.

If you need help I can look it up later when the site is running and tell you how to do it exactly. I hope that helps.

Was the start of the move at 9pm USA time then? >IS THERE ANY INFO OUT THERE AS TO HOW THIS MOVE IS GOING - WHAT TIME WILL IT END HERE IN THE UK? I DIDN'T JKNOW ABOUT THIS MOVE AND I AM WORRIED ABOUT MY LISTINGS ENDING SOON, NOW ONE CAN SEE THEM,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE THAT CAN ANSWER? PLEASE?

12AM USA time... so we're running about 1 1/2 hours later than expected...

oops i meant 12am eastern time.. in the usa
9pm pacific, i think

i never was good at time zones lol

It was actually scheduled to end about an hour and a half ago. Some features have come back online for some people - so they are working on it and apparently have at least one server ready to go. Other than that, I don't think anyone other than auctiva can help - but they are busy with the set up right now and haven't checked in. Hopefully, any minute now.

i hope so.. i think i'll go nap a couple hrs so i can stay up late tonight.. watching the screen not move makes me sleepy

Thanks for the replies - I am very new to this and I just hope its going to be back to normal (hopefully quicker tho!) soon. So its going to end here around 12am wed morning? - Is that correct?

it's supposed to be over... it's evidently taking longer than they thought.. i'm sure they're doing all they can

could be any time now

It's 1:36 p.m. Eastern Time here & some parts of Auctive are up & working. About an hour ago, I couldn't even get any part of Auctiva's Website to come up. So, it looks like it's coming back online one bit a time. To me, that's a good sign--better than none at all!! I'll be staying up late tonight--got a bunch of things to list. Using TurboLister has cost me $$ these last 2 weeks!!

I have to feed the cats and also I want to go to the post office to see if there is anything in the PO box at 4pm. Then I am going. My cats will tear the place apart if I don't feed them.

I have a website too, and I am also an electrician but I amnot doing that anymore.

I don't know anymore Mickey & Minnie Jokes though.

BUTTTTTT!!!

A second grade teacher says to her class " I am going to say a letter of the alphabet and I want you to tell me a word that begins with that letter and use it in a sentence. So she says "A" Immediately Ralphy jumps up and has his hand in the air. The teacher thinks to herself " I better not call Ralphy because he will just say 'a$$hole" or something like that." So she picks Sally. Sally says "Apple. Today we went to the orchard and picked apples." "Very good Sally" The teacher says now "B" Again Ralphy jumps up he's shaking he's dancing and again the teacher says I better not call Ralphy because he will just say 'Bas--rd' or something like that." So she picks Johnny. Johnny stands up and says " Ball. Today in gym we played football" So she keeps going and the whole time Ralphy is jumping up and down waving his hands until she gets to "R" Again Ralphy jumps up and the teacher figures "OK R what can Ralphy possibly say that starts with R that is so bad. "OK Ralphy it's your turn." The teacher says. With that Ralphy stand up with a big grin on his face and says "Rabbit. A big f@#$ing rabbit."

Anyone notice the edit button is gone. The quote button is here but no edit.

LOLOL

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Originally posted by dawnblue:
OMG! Are you bored?? LOL! I thought you were leaving, so I went to relist some ebay items - don't need auctiva for that - I come back and you're ranting

I would never use Andale - they screwed me royally. I missed that thread where Jeff said that. As a web site owner, I understand though. I have told people to go take a flying leap off into deep water before.

I am not a hobbyist, but I run two companies - one is my eBay business and the other is web designing. If I relied solely on my eBay business to keep a roof over my head, I don't think I would use Auctiva - I would need something more reliable. But I do rely on eBay for about 1/3 of our household income - not to mention it pays for our annual Disney passes. I really like Auctiva so far (but it's only been since September.

Hopefully, the server move will fix the problems. If not, I will have to move on elsewhere - although I would hate to do that.

Now - just for USoldWhat's benefit - tell me some more Mickey jokes you goofy dog! LOL

Dawn;
I am currently looking for someone to make me a few web pages,, if you hire out would you please contact me?
sharyh@chartermi.net

I can understand that sometimes deadlines with moves can take longer than normally expected and we appreciate everything that Jeff and crew are doing to make listing faster and easier. We would appreciate, however, if we could be given a situation update so we can plan out the rest of our day and week.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing something.