eBay's Overpriced ProStores Plagued By Outages

[mandy]

eBay's ecommerce-hosting service ProStores has been plagued by outages for the past few weeks. "My site is up and down more often than a elevator these days," wrote one frustrated merchant on the ProStores discussion board Wednesday. The problems began in mid-September, and ProStores experienced severe outages this week.

A merchant who has been a ProStores customer for over two years said, "We have had outages for several days in the past 30. Yesterday and today, our stores have been down completely...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y08/m10/i09/s01

To our valued customers –

I know there is very little I can say at this point to alleviate the pain you have experienced the last few weeks. I want to emphasize that with the launch of Pay-Per-Sale Marketing we will now feel that pain directly ourselves: we will be spending money and resources on advertising on behalf of merchants who have signed up for the service – clearly if your stores are down those efforts and funds are wasted...

full announcement: http://discussionboard.prostores.com/sho...9845576930&t=8424

more "Performance Issue" apology announcements:
http://discussionboard.prostores.com/for...y.php?f=51