# UK eBay - unreliable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 28, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598 "2004-05-28T23:42:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598/1 "2004-05-28T23:42:57Z")

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I seem to have problems every other day, for an hour or two, where [www.ebay.co.uk](http://www.ebay.co.uk) won’t let me log in, either telling me my details are wrong or simply looping back to the login page. I can always get in by [www.ebay.com](http://www.ebay.com), but of course then UK-specific searches aren’t possible.

Anybody else have this problem?

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**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598/2 "2004-05-28T23:56:44Z")

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I had this problem with [eBay.com](http://eBay.com), and it turned out to be (apparently) that I had two browsers “logged in” to eBay, and it didn’t like that. (I use different browsers for different reasons. None of them are Internet Explorer. Long story.) As long as I keep one browser as my “eBay browser,” I don’t get the logging-in loop thing.

By the way, I logged into [eBay.co.uk](http://eBay.co.uk) just fine. (Using my “eBay browser,” of course!)

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598/3 "2004-05-29T00:00:50Z")

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An interesting idea… but that shouldn’t be the problem - I use Mozilla the whole time. And the .co.uk just refused me again, while typing this. Ho-hum…

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**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-ebay-unreliable/247598/4 "2004-05-29T04:46:15Z")

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I was having trouble not too long ago with eBay UK not showing me my won bids or the items I was watching. I didn’t have any trouble with eBay USA, though.