Are you, having trouble accessing the Priceline and Expedia Bidding board? (If you are unfamiliar with it, the board is a wonderful forum for learning of successful bidding strategies at Priceline.com) If so, you are not alone! Apparently some change at ezboard is preventing access for many people. I had emailed Sheryl and she referred me to Steve, another moderator. He granted me permission to reproduce his letter:

>
> Good afternoon. Sheryl took the liberty of
> forwarding
> your email to me as I am one of the moderators at
> the
> PricelineandExpediaBidding board and I too have been
> experiencing problems accessing the site.
>
> I have had several emails with Vanchau of Ezboard
> and
> we have figured out it is a DNS problem, but Vanchau
> thinks that it is my corporate IT department's
> problem
> and not his server's problem. Perhaps you can send
> him and email and let him know that you are having
> the
> same problem? His email is [email protected]
>
> I do have a work around solution for you. I have
> found that if I go to the site utilizing an
> anonymous
> web surfing proxy site, it then works (you are
> bypassing your local DNS server by doing this.) So,
> try this to see if it works:
>
> Go over to http://www.safeweb.com/ and then put this
> URL into the address box:
> http://pub4.ezboard.com/bpricelinean...iabidding.html
>
> Let me know if this works,
> Regards,
> Steve100

This technique works fine for me, maybe it will for you too!