You pissed me off. Really badly.

But first the backstory. A friend of mine, who helped me out greatly at the end of november when i was in the deepest pitch of financial crisis, asked me to get something for her from eBay. I have a PayPal account, and thanks to recent (and unexpected though very appreciated) donations and my translation payments, i have a non-negative balance on it, so i could help her.

The item in question was a refurbished 16GB HP Touchpad tablet on $100 sale. The sale was announced to start at 1800 central, and i was right there at the start line. And then eBay decided not to work. The “Buy now” button just wouldn’t work and the javascript console showed that it’s because the “back-end servers reached maximum capacity”. Then when i finally got past that it and tried to add the address of an american friend who was kind enough to agree to help, not even the “change” or “add adress” links would work. By the time i could get it to react at all, of course the item sold out. But after a quick exchange of mails i tried to get the 32GB version for 150 bucks, but the site again simply refused to react to the “Buy now” button. After over an hour of trying i gave up, went to the gym, and by the time i got back of course it was sold out as well. All variants.

So let me put this shortly: a leprous elk fuck you in the arse with its spiked bloody cock, dear eBay. Get your service working or fuck off.