Re: www.ebay.com down?

At 10:12 PM 8/20/2003, Mehmet Akcin wrote:

We were unable to process your request We are sorry, but we were unable to process your request. Please check the eBay Announcement Board for updates on recent and upcoming changes, major system issues, and other important eBay news.

however I was unable to reach the announcement board

There are already dozens of similar posts to alt.online.marketing.ebay from users in many different areas. It looks like eBay is severely screwed up all around, and unreachable on many different servers (in the US and UK, on both current and closed auction servers, on the message board servers, half.com, etc.). PayPal seems to still be working. jc