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

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 29 19:13:40 2006
Message-ID: <C0F13983.2D0C5%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Yo Johnny,
            First, let me say I regret I cannot see what you and Stan look
like.... wanna send me a jpg for the Meteorite Friends Page?
            Next, here is what I have found re having your auction listed
where it can be found:
1) First, select "Rocks, minerals, meteorites and
tektites" for the category.
2) Secondly, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, put the word, "meteorite"
in the item title box!
        If you do this, I find it hard to believe you will not find your
item accordingly. Of course, I could be wrong, my wife often tells
me I am.
        Best wishes, Michael

on 7/29/06 4:00 PM, stan . at laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
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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
Received on Sat 29 Jul 2006 07:12:51 PM PDT