POLL: Auctiva's Maintenance day conflicting w/eBays 10 day listing.

I don't understand the necessity for Auctiva to change their maintenance night when you have the ability to SCHEDULE your listing to post at any time of the week you want. Regardless of what time zone you live in, why not just work around the down time and use the schedule feature?

I understand you have the ability to schedule your listings, however If you want for example to schedule your listing on Thursday night for 10 days to end Sunday night again to give you two weekends of exposer, Auctiva would be down for maintenance for the time you requested your listing to start. The problem I run into is not the ability to schedule my auctions, its having them start on Thursdays nights for 10 days.

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Originally posted by alta77:
...Auctiva would be down for maintenance for the time you requested your listing to start.

Sorry, maybe my stupid pill hasn't worn off yet (others agree with you according to the poll), but I just don't understand your problem. Thursday night maintenance is for about 4 hours starting from about 10pm PST or later. Before 10pm on Thursday nights the site is fully functional. Do you mean to say you want your listings to post that late at night(after 10pm)? That means they will also end that late at night. Since prime exposure time and bidding time is much earlier than that, when people are still awake, why can't you just post, or schedule your posts, earlier than 10pm? What am I not getting here? Do you live somewhere other than the USA, or do I need a whack on the side of the head. (Won't be the first time.)

I'm going to chime in here with ninth_wave...I agree to leave well enough alone. Auctiva does it's maintenence at the same time Ebay does theirs which is late at night in some parts of the U.S. (Midnight and on, where I am) Have you ever logged into Ebay at this time and seen those annoying little banners 'some of your information is missing at this time'? The way this is set up now is no accident. As has been said before, no matter what time maintenence occurs it will affect someone somewhere.

BTW ninth, if you ever need a whack on the head just ask

Hi Miss M - I would, except I'm afraid you might dislodge what few brain cells I have left out of their geosynchronous orbits and put me in a permanent state of discombooberation.

Soooo.......I can take that as a YES ??

YES

OOH Gratuitous violence. Can I sell tickets to the event? Of course i will have to film the event also for future video sales. Ever here of Bum Fights? We can have eBay Brawls! Maybe we could even get Meg to endorse them!
By the way Alta77 this will not change, Auctiva has done this, this way forever and they say they have no plans of changing it, it is the best and most convenient time as far as they are concerned.
And I tend to agree myself. What earthly reason do you have for ending auctions at that hour anyway? Those are the WORST hours to sell.

Hey there Taz,
I seem to be teasing ninth_wave alot lately (shame on me)

Yes, the eBay Brawls will begin at exactly the same time maintenence starts to give everyone something to do. Now how's that for a suggestion ??

DUH...I just realized something (yeah I'm a little slow at times )
It doesn't matter at all if your auctions are scheduled or ending during maintenence time...they are still there, they don't just disappear. I'm a night person, I'm always up late, my auctions have never been MIA during the maintenence timeframe. You just can't do any WORK on Auctiva...does this make sense?

Even though, as you say, the site seems to stay online enough to host your photos (the rest of your listing resides on ebay's servers)(not sure about the template graphics), that really doesn't address whether or not Auctiva will actually post a scheduled auction during the maintenance period. How do we know the scheduling function still does its thing during that time? Maybe an Auctiva worker or another member with direct experience needs to tell us. Inquiring minds want to know.

Right you are ninth, I was wrong (now who needs a whack on the head
Here's a copy paste of part of the answer I recieved from support:

>> We have scheduled this time in synchronization with eBay and after conducting studies that shows that is when our site receives the least traffic and, therefore, impacts the fewest customers. We also have many customers in the United Kingdom and Australia and they are taken into consideration as well.

Listings that are scheduled to post during that period are going to fail as, we loose connectivity with eBay servers <<

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Originally posted by member_8880:
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Listings that are scheduled to post during that period are going to fail as, we loose connectivity with eBay servers <<

That answers the posting question(Thanks for doing the research), but raises a question as to the reliability of the photo hosting during that period. It might not make much difference in our time zones due to the late hour, but other parts of the world would certainly feel the pinch.

Hi ninth,
I know, at least for me, my pics and listings are always just fine during the maintenence hours....like I said, I'm a night owl
I would imagine that other folks' would be fine as well, but who knows?

Night owl here too, or early bird... nothing regular about me. lol

Mine have always been fine with the pictures. Occasionally the scrolling gallery is down awhile but not always.

I want in on the whackin'!

Well, we're starting to see a dark side to you girls now aren't we? I'm almost (almost mind) afraid to come out to play with you young ruffians!

Hey pete (HI Shirley),
Don't be afraid of us, it's Taz & his evil Santa that I'd be worried about....

And anyway, we (at least I) dont know if ninth is he or she ??

Fess up, ninth

Forgot something---Shirley's right, the only thing that doesn't work for me during maintenence is the scrolling gallery.......

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Originally posted by member_8880:
And anyway, we (at least I) dont know if ninth is he or she ??
Fess up, ninth

I didn't realize it was so not obvious - oh the glories of online anonymity (thank you spell-checker). Now you've got me worried, all full of self-doubt. Anybody else like to take a guess? Maybe I should do a poll. Trapped like a rat!

Hey ninth, I'm always up for putting my neck on the block! I have always had the image in my head of you being a fella. Now, if I have got that wrong, I humbly apologise I'm not even sure I understand why I think that, but there it is.

I always knew Member was a girlie, 'cos of her picture,

OK ninth, I didn't see an answer in there
I dunno....sometimes I think guy, sometimes girl....
A poll might be an interesting idea

Evil Santa Taz says Ninth is masculine. Where is the poll? Lump of coal for the dark Side Girls LMAO

UhOh just thought Dark Side Girls may whack Ninth with lumps of coal !!! Evil Santa Taz give Ninth Louisville Slugger
BTW 8880 we seem to have added to our posse of post hijackers!

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Boy we just hijack all the threads don't we

Taz, I would answer you but I'm TOO BUSY WIPING MY EYES
You are SO funny!~

Always good to laugh 8880. How you be anyway? Pretty good here. Just trying to get the Christmas thing going and dig out from the snowstorm we got.

OK *deep breath* better now (kinda). I didn't think I'd ever stop laughing!

Shirley do you hear what he's calling us? I like it!
And ninth_wave is just going to leave us hanging without an answer, aren't you ninth?
Taz says M-Pete & I are undecided-& we haven't heard from Shirley yet....

Yep Taz, we did it again

And again with the Esp
We had snowstorms too, couldn't get my car out for 2 days

I type you post, I post you type??? Stay out of my head 8880. No wonder I was spinning in circles the past few weeks

They say Santa knows whether you've been bad or good but what does EVIL santa know??? HMM

BTW Has everyone cast their vote in this Poll? We seem to have completely hijacked it . We do need the Ninth wave poll also M? F? Other?

OTHER??????? HMMMM indeed...
NOW who should get the coal ??

If I were ninth_wave, I'd be very flattered with all this attention..

No offense Ninth possibly you may be from Mars though? Or is that Venus HMM Only John Gray and Ninth know for sure?

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oh the glories of online anonymity (thank you spell-checker). Now you've got me worried, all full of self-doubt.

Above being the reason for "other?" !

Still waiting to hear from Shirley...I know she's here somewhere.......

Ninth_wave is either going to be really flattered or really mad
Please don't be mad ninth!

You asked for it. Go to the Lounge and you shall behold the POLL!

Darn, I should've come back sooner.
Hi Miss Member. Hey Pete, I like to think I'm a young ruffian. LOL Not a young whipper snapper any more though. Miss Member's right - no need to be afraid of us.

I think handlep is a fella too, cause of his name. lol Miss Member, yah, that picture says feminine to me. Same with Taz, 'cept Taz brings male gender to mind. Yep, you ARE too funny!

I like it too, Dark Side Girls... got my coal pile here. I'll share if ya need, Miss Member! How about snowballs instead? Love a good snowball fight. lol

Hey, I'm from another planet - I'll never tell where.

I'm here! Thanks Member! I voted on the other thread. I think ninth is

a


guy. So when do we find out? Back to the poll thread.

Shirley, if Taz runs out of coal I've got more than enough SNOW for all of us (so does he )

Taz too? There was just a groundcover here that's already melted except in the shade. I LOVE snow! lol All in due time, I'm sure.

All the free snow you want Shirley! We only got 7 inches yesterday but I do believe I can spare some!

Love snow huh? You can move in with me if ya want snow, we're totally covered. As for myself I think I'm gonna visit ninth in Reno

Ummm...did you guys notice that Taz & I have this ESP thing goin on? We're always posting at the same time, sometimes right down to the minute....v e r y wierd

As Scooby Doo would say Ruh Roh Raggy, the weather outside is frightful but Reno is is so delightful!
Tis a bit scary 8880? Rather Orwellian if you ask me!