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The interesting thing is I still got refunded, about a week after my account was banned. Their backend must be a total mess, but it worked out in my favor somehow. If not for that I definitely would have done a chargeback.

[Nextgrid]

> Their backend must be a total mess

The URL structures on the website are scary and indeed suggest the backend is a horrible dumpster fire.

[thorin]

The history of EBay is long (in internet commerce terms) and complicated. At one point 100s of millions of customers on a single oracle db. A colleague of mine was working on this around 1998/9

https://web.archive.org/web/20070104021557/http://www.addsim...

[ranger_danger]

Can confirm, been working with many eBay APIs for a while now and it's completely and totally a massive dumpster fire. Most API versions are in the thousands, and there's so many random gotchas and contradicting docs and daily bugs and breakages you don't want to go anywhere near it. Not to mention their only recourse for contacting them about bugs or developer issues is via prepaid premium support, paid only via paypal, in which the link for it frequently goes down too. If you check their dev forums it's filled with nothing but people complaining about all sorts of random issues and never getting real responses.

[robryan]

Not only a mess but they seem to have been halfway through modernising things for years.

They built a new API but are probably never going to be able to get rid if the old one.

[caf]

Kinda makes me wonder if the person handling the case on their end got confused and banned the wrong party.

[realusername]

The terrible quality of their APIs does suggest it's a mess behind as well yeah.