At 09:18 AM 1/03/05 +1100, franklin franklin-at-cn-newc.com.au |G-list| wrote: >I am in Australia, and have had this problem with EBay Australia from time >to time. Like Andrew, I am on slow 28.8 K dial-up, use IE 5.1.7 and OS9.2.2 > >It first started about a year ago(?) after EBay changed the way they >structured their site and changed the way pages are delivered. I emailed >them at the time complaining about them implementing an untested change. > >I believe that the problem is a timing problem, between the EBay site >content and JavaScript or whatever language these >advertisement-heavy/database-lookup sites use these days. > >It regularly takes 45 sec just to get the EBay logon page to load, which is >ridiculous considering how simple the page should and could be, but for some >reason they seem to refresh every element of the page every time.
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