[meteorite-list] Ebay is ripping everybody off at least once! (OT)

From: Bob Evans <bobe5531_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 29 18:15:47 2006
Message-ID: <000401c6b35c$89e90230$6400a8c0_at_yourae066c3a9b>

Never seen that before. Every item that I have wanted to bid on within the
last few minutes was always available, for years now.
However, that doesn't mean that ebay doesn't freeze up, even with seconds
left in a auction which it certainly does.

Just the nature of the net.

Relax Johnny .......... Im sure ebay isn't out to get you.
Im sure ebay would want every auction to end in big money.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Rieben" <johnny_at_artifacts4all.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Ebay is ripping everybody off at least once! (OT)


> Hello Met-List members,
>
> It saddens me to inform you all of a nefarious problem with eBay.
> The majority of you have probably sold items on eBay before and have had
> both success and failure. But did you ever wonder why certain sales fail
> so
> miserably? I have come across something that many of you are probably not
> aware of and it involves the eBay search function. I have had several very
> bad
> auctions on ebay where more than half of the items do not sell. I just
> found
> out
> today by doing the search functions myself that these items could be found
> NOWHERE!!! This is not the first time this has occurred but in the other
> instances it was only a few scattered items among 50 or more listings.
> I contacted eBay on their ONLY available live-help source which is the
> chat.
> They kept repeating that there was nothing they could do and when I asked
> to be connected to someone who could do something they suggested email.
> As all this was going on my auctions ended and I lost LOTS of money to low
> bids and no bids. Some of my specimens went for .99 and were worth 10
> times
> that or more.
>
> When your items are unavailable in the search function just minutes before
> ending ...that is a true CRIME! The vast majority of bidding is in those
> last few
> minutes!
>
> Anyway I just thought I would warn you all of what is going on since this
> isnt
> the first time and I am sure it wont be the last.
>
> If you value your time and money
> then you may want to watch your auctions carefully especially in the last
> few
> hours/minutes. I also believe that these are in a sense 'criminal acts'
> since there is
> no way to recoup the losses for eBays 'problems'.
>
> Just thought I would let you all know what monopolies like eBay are doing
> to
> their
> customers.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Johnny Rieben
> Artifacts4all
> www.artifacts4all.com
>
>
>
>
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Received on Sat 29 Jul 2006 06:15:45 PM PDT