Ghost Listings on eBay
Seriously, I'm not crazy, but there are "ghost listings" on eBay. Popping up every now and then. They are dead auctions (no pun intended) that ended for a long time.
I opened my auctions of one account in Firefox (and the browser is set to clear the cache and everything when I close it) and my account usually has 30 listings. But now it had 31. It turns out an item is listed that I sold about 8 days ago and it's saying as ending in "34 minutes" from now, in red, like the usual ending auctions. When I click it, the auction says it has ended. Then I go back to my listings and there are 30 listings again, the ghost listing gone.
I then decided to check on my wife's computer which is on its own separate internet connection and has never accessed my auctions for at least 6 months. I refreshed the window about 50 times and suddenly the ghost auction pops up, at the next refresh it's gone again.
This happened not only on this one account, but also on another account about a week ago. Back then I thought maybe Firefox displayed me a cached page, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm starting to think eBay is haunted by ghost listings...
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