Well we think it may be solved. We implemented a 3 hour caching system on the
ebay stuff to lessen the load on the server a few weeks ago. What I didn't do is code a failsafe so if the
ebay feeds fail, we fail on this end gracefully.
ebay feeds have been squirrelly for about 36 hours now, which is timed about right with our issues here. We put a fix in place a few hours ago that will just show a blank space if there's squirrellyness instead of throwing errors and it appears to be working.