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

From: Johnny Rieben <johnny_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 29 19:11:10 2006
Message-ID: <001d01c6b364$c140f8c0$edf9e404_at_thx1138>

But the point is they are already rich and are now screwing the little
guys because of 'server issues'. They arent trying to get rich off of
this they are trying to protect the server space of higher paying customers!
They would never do this unless they were trying to protect BIGGER
amounts of money than mine. I say RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!!

Regards,

Johnny


----- Original Message -----
From: "stan ." <laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com>
To: <johnny_at_artifacts4all.com>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Ebay is ripping everybody off at least once!
(OT)


>
>
> >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.
>
> I've sold maybe 500 or more auctions on ebay - and i'm a little guy by
far.
> And yet i have never seen the phenomina you mention and i always keyword
> search my own listings to see what other comperable stuff is going for.
>
> but let's look at this for a second.
> the insertioin fee for a .99$ item is .20$
> final value fee for a 10$ item is 5.25% of the closing cost or .53$
>
> so if there is some problem with ebays search engine it's costing them
final
> value fees that are two and a half times what they are getting for your
> listing fee.
>
> doesnt sound like too logical of a nefarious plot on ebay's part to get
rich
> quick by 'stealing' insertion fees.
>
>
Received on Sat 29 Jul 2006 07:14:33 PM PDT