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Company sez soz eBay is currently out of action for its users, but the downtime is not because of an unexpected outage. It is instead due to "scheduled general maintenance", the company has confirmed to The Register .… More: continued here

Auction site eBay was down for a large portion of the morning in the UK and across other European countries.         More: continued here