Here we go again. On Friday, leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) suffered another embarrassing outage that will be costly in more ways than one. eBay’s site was down for about 14 hours on Friday, beginning at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time. In June, eBay also suffered a major outage. That 22-hour outage led to an estimated $3 million (US$) to $5 million of lost revenue for eBay, largely because the company refunded listing and transaction fees.
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eBay Tries To Rebound From Outage — Again
Posted by: Andy Wang August 10, 1999 12:00 AMHere we go again. On Friday, leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) suffered another embarrassing outage that will be costly in more ways than one. eBay’s site was down for about 14 hours on Friday, beginning at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time. In June, eBay also suffered a major outage. That 22-hour outage led to an estimated $3 million (US$) to $5 million of lost revenue for eBay, largely because the company refunded listing and transaction fees.