eBay might have the rubes thinking that code magically appears, by calling them “glitches”, but that is rarely the true.

This is another case of eBay taking already written and implemented code and turning it on. Before it’s time.

Like the BM (Best Match) glitch of last year. Where an eBay “glitch” caused BM to become the default. BM is no longer glitching, is it?

Computer glitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch
A computer glitch is the failure of a system, usually containing a computing device, to complete its functions or to perform them properly. It frequently refers to an error which is not detected at the time it occurs but shows up later in data errors or incorrect human decisions. While the fault is usually attributed to the computer hardware, this is often not the case since hardware failures rarely go undetected. Other situations which are frequently called computer glitches are:

* Incorrectly written software (software bug)
* Incorrect instructions given by the operator (operator error) (this might also be considered a software bug)
* Undetected invalid input data (this might also be considered a software bug)
* Undetected communications errors
* Computer viruses
* Computer security cracking (sometimes erroneously called “hacking”)
* Another human error unrelated to the computer