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Monday: Auction House Server Instability

Hi folks. In case you haven't heard (and there's a good chance you may not have), the Xbox Live service has been undergoing dashboard maintenance and updates today so you could see some network instability across the board.

Those of you playing Forza 2 will see this affecting your ability to access the Auction House. We've been getting lots of email from Forza players asking if their Gamertags have been banned from the online Auction House due to the pop-up message that states you have either been banned or the service is unavailable.

If you know for a fact that you have not violated our Auction House terms of service, then chances are you have not been banned and the reason you can't access the Auction House is due to Xbox Live instability.

Please check back and try to login throughout the day. This problem should resolve itself soon.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

 

Published Monday, April 21, 2008 3:11 PM by chespace

Comments

 

Donny Pa said:

i figured it would have something to do with that, its happend to me before but i was back on in no time.. only took about a day i think.
April 21, 2008 7:10 PM
 

PansyMk4 said:

Thanks for telling us, Che!
April 21, 2008 7:11 PM
 

EXPL051VE said:

I can't even create a private exhibition drift match.. I've only tried a few times, but it's enough to make you think. Why does Microsoft continually try to fix their service, and make things worse before they get better?

All I wanna do is drift with some buddies. You guys 'n gals can keep your competition races, I just wanna sit back and relax.
April 21, 2008 7:16 PM
 

I Ride A Burton said:

Thanks for this little notification :)
April 21, 2008 7:39 PM
 

karl444 said:

taking a while now
April 22, 2008 2:42 PM
 

wotevajjjj said:

rite now its tuesday and i cant view my uploaded pics, cant do online races , can't do anything related to the internet
April 22, 2008 3:19 PM
 

grayzr said:

ok thanks wow that scared me when i went on the action house and it was unavalable i thought i  was banned but i never even put eneything up so it must be this that is causing the problem thanks for the info
April 22, 2008 3:46 PM
 

rusky1978 said:

thank god for that but could anyone tell me why 2 weeks ago all my cars and acheivments have been deleted
April 22, 2008 4:10 PM
 

xSuPeRfRoGx said:

thank you for this, was very scared as were others
April 23, 2008 12:04 AM
 

UnderdoneDaza said:

I have been trying to get on the AUCTION HOUSE the past 2 days and its still saying the same any idea how long this is going to take i love the upgrades for tyhem to make it better but this is taking the biscuit!!!
April 23, 2008 10:47 AM
 

f1r3f0x said:

I sent my friend a car and it is saying he has been banned so I can't get the car back and he can't use it... I sure hope it sorts itself out soon.
April 23, 2008 3:41 PM
 

the six shooter said:

My wife has full usage...but I still can't use the Auction House or
Gift a Car.  I have cars I have won in limbo and cars my wife sent me that are inaccessible.  I have raced FMS2 since it came out but only 2 weeks ago purchased a one year Gold Live.  What a Blast!!!  Now that I am hooked I can't use it!!!  I paid for a service that I am not receiving...the upgrade is complete...who is going to fix my issue???  These things don't usually fix themselves. If my wife's works and mine does not...I don't see any instability I see a specific problem with my gamer tag.  I am new at this online thing with a lot to learn, but come on guys...I am 53 and don't have that many years left to race!!!  Please get me back on line!!!  The Six Shooter
April 24, 2008 2:19 AM
 

haggis4465 said:

im the same as the man six shooter my son can get on but i cant i have car waiting in limbo we use the same inter net connection yet alas he has full useage and i dont wots going on someone please tell me ,,haggis 4465
April 24, 2008 7:18 AM
 

netstdiddy said:

I am having problems getting into the auction house. I can play others online but I can not get my cars I have purchased or sold. I have not been able to do nothing for 4 days since the "upgrade" or whatever they want to call it. I want back on please.
April 24, 2008 1:09 PM
 

TH1N BLUE L1NE said:

same thing for me I have to cars sitting in auction limbo that I have sold. I may try to perform a harddrive cleanup to see if it helps.
April 24, 2008 4:19 PM
 

haggis4465 said:

if the hard drive clean u works can you please let me now how to do it thanks
April 24, 2008 7:51 PM
 

murf2728 said:

hey tried the hard drive clean up it did not work for me. I have been tring to get in the auction house since monday and still no sucess. Same of others I have cars sitting in the A House, and some gifts all together worth about 2mill. just sitting and waiting. hope it doesent get lost. knock on wood.
April 24, 2008 11:53 PM
 

abcd1234 said:

i ave been tryin to get in to auction house for 4 days and it still aint workin its so annoyin plz fix it
April 25, 2008 5:32 AM
 

SpoonHunter420 said:

just when i thought i might have been banned for buying an RSX with an anime girl on it (with her butt on the hood  =D) i find this thread. its a relief knowing that i am PROBABLY not banned. but i have 200,000 credits im waiting to cash in as well as a car so please fix the BUG!!!!!!!
April 25, 2008 8:43 PM
 

TH1N BLUE L1NE said:

Yeah the hard drive cleanup didnt work for me either. I hope they fix this soon. I finally start making some money to buy more cars and upgrades for them and now I cant access my money. This should have been fixed in a day or so its almost a week now.
April 26, 2008 7:01 AM
 

murf2728 said:

i think i just got banned for buying and selling the "nude" cars. the first offence is one week second is one month third offence is onother month forth is life.
April 26, 2008 11:05 PM
 

ryanjagger said:

this is crazy
April 27, 2008 7:33 AM
 

UnderdoneDaza said:

for goodnesssake 1 and a half weks now this is gettin really annoying :@ will you sort this damn problem out!! been paitent and waited for it to be done and nothing is happening!!!!! :@:***
April 27, 2008 2:16 PM
 

abcd1234 said:

reali when is this goin to get fixed its reali anoyin they should of fixed it by now
April 28, 2008 12:50 PM
 

SpoonHunter420 said:

so it has been a week and i still cant use the auction house?!?! WTF WTF WTF WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if i go out and pay $65 dollars for something i EXPECT IT TO WORK RIGHT!!! i am so annoyed im about to take forza back and get a different racing game that isnt sucking right now
April 28, 2008 1:10 PM
 

Orothil said:

Iam being very calm and waiting for this problem to solve only 5 days i got the gold membership just to play this game and now pooffff cant jion the AH hope i get a response on the email i send them...

Orothil
April 28, 2008 1:56 PM
 

ThaGambitUk said:

still waiting for this issues to resolve itself im hoping very sooon please
April 28, 2008 4:24 PM
 

netstdiddy said:

I am still waitin to get on. Is anyone at turn 10 listening?? If I am going to be banned for much longer could someone please give me my cars back? I have over 3 mil sitting in the house that I have been locked out of.
April 28, 2008 9:12 PM
 

netstdiddy said:

I am still waitin to get on. Is anyone at turn 10 listening?? If I am going to be banned for much longer could someone please give me my cars back? I have over 3 mil sitting in the house that I have been locked out of.
April 28, 2008 9:12 PM
 

SpoonHunter420 said:

you would think that they would say something right now and follow up on our complaints
April 28, 2008 10:01 PM
 

TRAXMONSTA said:

dude that blows
April 29, 2008 2:29 AM
 

ArmedKong said:

Hey, when is this problem going to get solved, ive been trying to to get into the auction since sunday night and it still isnt working (now 3 days later). Can someone please tell me what the problem is? Maybe its regional or something, but what evber the case may be, im waiting on several cars that ive sold and its interfearing with my game...Im paying for good service, so i expect to have good service in return...please let me know when this is going to be done with...
April 29, 2008 9:14 PM
 

Lynd08 said:

this is rubbish, earlyer today i was able to get in the auction house so i turned my xbox off for an hour and when i went back on it i was unable to get on again..............JUST PLEASE SORT IT OUT!!!!
April 30, 2008 4:16 PM
 

TH1N BLUE L1NE said:

Well at the recommendation of Xbox customer support I deleted & then recovered my gamertag. It worked for a few hours and now I am back to the same old same old. The xbox customer support rep was able to verify that I am not banned from the game that its a technical difficulty that they are working on. Yeah right were going on 2 weeks now.
May 1, 2008 11:19 PM
 

ameyyape said:

It all used to work just fine, I could race on line, join races etc. And than, one day, I was not able to join anything on Xbox live anymore. It just will give me a message that no games were found. I tried hosting one, waited for about half an hour for somebody to join, nothing happened. I looked at my network settings, and they are all good, connected to Xbox live etc, but when I go to my account settings, it will tell me that I need to be signed in to do that....but I am signed in. So I called Xbox support last Sunday. The problem would be resolved within a week they told me. So far it has been 6 days from the call....this whole problem is taking already more than two weeks all together. And every day this issue costs money. I have a gold subscription to race online with FM2, that was the only reason. I probably won't get my money back.
It is a sad thing that the people that should fix this are not listening
May 2, 2008 8:10 PM
 

sean1980 said:

i think i tried to buyout a car and never received it some people come by money pretty easy not me give me my money back please or the car charger paint job
May 6, 2008 4:46 AM
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