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In order to prepare for that functionality, Gixen will have to migrate to using a new eBay interface, starting from September. In the case where an "account problem or a shipping location restriction" would restrict a bid, currently Gixen won't know about it until it places your bid in the last few seconds.
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The second point of interest is that Mario will be doing his best to persuade eBay engineers and executives to allow a functionality that will enable a "ahead-of-time dry-fire test" of bids. The reassurances (and reported timeframes by when something will be fixed) given by eBay CS staff do not (in my opinion) come from the engineers working on much of the infrastructure and future development. Technical reports of glitches and issues by users go from the user to some level of eBay CS - and that seems to be it. We can also take from this a confirmation that there is such a degree of separation between eBay members and eBay engineers that never the twain do meet. What we as eBay users - who see the results of eBay tinkering all too often - can take from this is that the more useless tinkering isn't done by the (presumably) high-level engineers working for eBay. Implicit in what he said was that he was impressed by eBay engineers, and not so impressed by CS. The first point of interest was that he stated that he wished eBay users had access to eBay engineers and executives rather than just customer support. Mario (from Gixen) was at the eBay Connect 2019 conference (25-26 June, in San Jose) and has thoughts to share.