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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3374785, member: 27832"]Not sure how valid that challenge is, because I can load newly listed items twice in a row from <b>the same browser window</b>, same machine, same location, and get two different lists.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay needs a LOT of servers to handle its traffic. New listings get pushed out to those servers as quickly as possible, but those are new listings for ALL categories. On some servers, Coins and Paper Money may have to wait a bit longer behind things in other categories. So, one time, I'll see ten listings from the last five minutes; next time, I'll see one listing from six minutes ago, and the next one from twenty minutes ago. Reload again and I might get either list, or yet another.</p><p><br /></p><p>This isn't anything nefarious on eBay's part. It's just the way things work when you're dealing with thousands or millions of simultaneous users and thousands or millions of listings coming and going.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3374785, member: 27832"]Not sure how valid that challenge is, because I can load newly listed items twice in a row from [B]the same browser window[/B], same machine, same location, and get two different lists. eBay needs a LOT of servers to handle its traffic. New listings get pushed out to those servers as quickly as possible, but those are new listings for ALL categories. On some servers, Coins and Paper Money may have to wait a bit longer behind things in other categories. So, one time, I'll see ten listings from the last five minutes; next time, I'll see one listing from six minutes ago, and the next one from twenty minutes ago. Reload again and I might get either list, or yet another. This isn't anything nefarious on eBay's part. It's just the way things work when you're dealing with thousands or millions of simultaneous users and thousands or millions of listings coming and going.[/QUOTE]
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