One of the example of e commerce failure is eBay.
eBay.com, a website which manages by an American Internet company- eBay Inc. , is an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buying and selling goods and services around the world. It was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by a computer programmer – Pierre Omidyar. eBay is the world’s leading online marketplace and it went public on September 21, 1998.
However, the most significant e commerce failure met among all e commerce websites so far at the online auction house eBay on June 10-11, 1999. The site was closed for 22 hours. Before the June 10, 1999, eBay met other significant failures and has since suffered extra outages which totaled more than 70 hours of outages in the first seven months of the year. During the two day of June crisis, eBay’s stock was dropped for $47 to $137, $5.7 billion of market capitalization was wiping out. Before rising again to the $130 range, it had dropped below $80 in early August. During the crisis, there are lot of experts assess the cause of the disaster cite eBay’s failure to build a redundant, scalable web architecture. Besides that, eBay’s outage was taking a long period of time because the database files was corrupted, it required the files to be rebuilt then only the system could be used.
The outages at eBay echo the strain that outsized demand had placed on online brokerage firms. One of the consultant said that there are lot of e commerce websites can’t follow up with their growth as they don’t have sufficient skills to keep the site running all the time. This is the reason why eBay outages knocked the website four times out of five days in November 1999. 
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