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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1245167, member: 27043&quot;]Back to the topic at hand...</p><p><br /></p><p>jeffB&#039;s right.&nbsp; I&#039;ve made my living (like him, it sounds like) in the field for several decades, and not protecting transactional consistency borders on criminal negligence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps a &quot;real world example&quot; to clarify the severity of this issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>You log on to your bank&#039;s website, and transfer $500 from savings to checking.&nbsp; This is a &quot;transaction&quot; that must occur completely, or not at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why?&nbsp; Simple.&nbsp; Your transfer is MULTIPLE modifications of information.&nbsp; It is, in its simplest form, the WITHDRAWAL of $500 from your savings account, AND the DEPOSIT of $500 to your checking account.&nbsp; At a bare minimum, TWO events must occur for the transaction to be complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of critical importance is that if one fails, then the other CAN NOT be allowed to continue.&nbsp; If we fail to withdraw $500 from your savings account (for whatever reason) we can not then proceed to complete the deposit into checking.&nbsp; If we do, we have created money that does not exist, and improperly credited it to an account that does not contain it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, if the deposit into checking fails, the withdrawal from&nbsp; savings MUST be undone, otherwise we have simply &quot;negated&quot; the existance of $500 of our customer&#039;s money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Community Chest cards not withstanding, &quot;Bank errors&quot;...in your favor or not...simply can&#039;t be allowed to happen like this.&nbsp; It&#039;s an issue of integrity.&nbsp; If the system allows money to appear or disappear at random, then there is no faith or credibility in ANYTHING the system tells us at any time.&nbsp; In short, the system is now worthless, regardless of what features it offers.</p><p><br /></p><p>What the OP has told all of us, then, is that EBay (and by extension, PayPal, EBay&#039;s property) has, in at least one situation, failed to protect and enforce transactional consistency.&nbsp; It allowed an item to be sold that was not available, and then, failing to properly determine the item was unavailable, PROCEEDED WITH THE SALE.&nbsp; Worse yet, when it later became CLEAR the item had not been available, it allowed an orphaned record of a sale to exist, and did NOT roll back the invalid parts of the transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>The integrity of the entire EBay/Paypal system is now in question.&nbsp; EBay&#039;s unwilingness to acknowledge/address this fact calls the COMPANY&#039;S integrity into question as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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