I have noticed that the site has got painfully slow lately, or maybe it's just me ! Don't have a problem with any other site. Sheer volume of use I suppose!
Panic over!
Don't know what the problem was but I couldn't get on to ebay for a few hours. But I'm back on now and have jacked up my bid in case it comes over all dodgy again!
Thanks for your help everyone. Strange that some people were able to access it but other not.
Seemingly unconnected people suddenly can't access a web site..... it's a DNS issue, either an ISP's DNS server has broke in some way or a DNS change is taking time to propagate.
Google DNS servers if you a) want to be bored, or b) have a real interest in it.