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To: HairBall who wrote (19836)	7/10/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

eBay's Web site goes down again Saturday Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Reuters News Service PALO ALTO, Calif. (July 10, 1999 7:10 p.m.EDT nandotimes.com) - The Web site of online auctioneer eBay Inc. went down again Saturday in the third such incident in less than a month. "We are currently experiencing a problem with our database server, causing eBay pages to be temporarily inaccessible," read a message posted at 2:43 p.m. EDT by eBay on its Web site. "We'll provide more information as it is available." A second message, posted at 3:18 p.m. EDT read: "Our engineering staff continues to investigate to determine the source of the problem. We'll provide an update as soon as possible." On June 11, eBay's site went down for close to a full day, infuriating many loyal customers and raising questions about the technological underpinnings of the popular site. During that outage, millions of eBay members were blocked from bidding or posting items for sale as eBay engineers working to correct the problem repeatedly promised to have the site back up shortly, only to say later it would take longer than initially thought. At the time, eBay's failure to keep the site running prompted comments by eBay users such as: "There really is no excuse for so many problems other than poor management." The site crashed again for several hours on June 29. Officials at eBay could not be reached for comment. On June 13, eBay said second-quarter revenues would be about $3 million to $5 million lower on the fallout from the nearly 22-hour outage on its Internet site. At the time, eBay said the problem was caused by the failure of Sun Microsystems Inc. software used to list items for sale and update bids. eBay stock rose $1.56 to $135.75 in Friday trading on Nasdaq.