eBay outage, down since Saturday morning

eBay problems started with a little glitch in the morning then became a major outage around Saturday noontime. eBay Search is down — outage left sellers and buyers worried.

At 11:17 am PST, eBay posted an announcement that it was experiencing “some issues with a delay in search being displayed.”

Here is the latest update from ebay (6:12 pm EST) regarding this recent eBay outage:

If you use the Advanced Search option at the top of the page, and type in your search query and click the title and description box and then run the search, the results for the title and description search will be returned. Likewise, if you receive a 0 results page for title search and choose the title and description box and re-run the search, you’ll see the appropriate results.

Does eBay think buyers are going to first of all, find this announcement, and second of all, follow these convoluted instructions? Surely eBay is not paving the way to get out of calling it an outage?

Wait for more updates later!