Tat bazaar eBay takes a rest for 'scheduled maintenance', goes offline

I have a all in one multifunction printer on ebay atm which is worth a couple of hundred quid but currently has 1 bid of 99p and is due to finish in about an hour so i will be seriously pissed if this downtime means i don't get anymore bids on it.

I just tried logging in again 12:45 and although it appears to work, i tried replying to a message and got kicked out and told the function is not available

Has the Register ever actually visited ebay

"Tat Bazaar, second hand smelly socks".

I guess all the above are available in ebay, along with part worn ladies shoes (don't ask), but for many it provides a good outlet for shed loads of new stuff that they sell to happy customers everywhere. So, old and tatty are somewhat past their sell by date.

Amazingly at 5pm UK time its STILL bloomin broken! Trying to get some stuff listed before the weekend and I’m hit with:

Feature unavailable

This feature is temporarily unavailable

Your selections have caused errors. Please click Continue below to go back and correct your errors.

My 'errors' was to click on Sell Similar. We've had 3 sales during the day instead of the usual double-figures. Brilliant eh?

Meh

I took down the back-end database servers of a major commericial retailers' UK Web site at 6am this morning for an essential system upgrade. Everything was back up at 6.12.

/Smug mode off

Time for some new clichés

Every news item your pissed old hacks churn out about eBay uses the same cliché about "tat". Please try to put as much effort into your writing as I put into selling quality items on there. Lazy sods.

Continuous delivery needed

eBay need to move away from the old fashioned 'big bang' maintenance schedule and move towards continuous delivery as per Amazon.

Tat Bazaar?

Is the author deliberately trying to provoke responses, billing Ebay as a 2nd hand smelly shoes only place?

Ebay, the, or one of the, largest markets in the world, probably sells more new electronics than quite a large number or large online retailers put together.

That the kind of the thing the author wanted? (Perhaps he secretly wants to praise Ebay through people correcting him. Strange article.)