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

From: Mark <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jul 30 13:06:50 2006
Message-ID: <000c01c6b3fa$72ef5040$fbe70344_at_dce05032006>

Johnny,

Take a pill dude and relax. Whatever issue you had with ebay I can tell you
that whatever you had ahppen was a momentary thing. I have been on ebay for
7 years and thousands of items and never hjad an issue with searches. I
would respectfully suggest you check you work, perhaps you did something
wrong.

And then I would go back and have you read your users agreement with ebay
and also every EULA that you have ever blankly clicked "accept" on as you
install the accompanying software.

NO ONE and I mean no one in this world called the internet/software takes
any responsibility for anything they do write or create. You can not hold
anyone responsibile for anything related to the net.

As for ebay, I highly doubt it is a conspiracy, ebay has way too much to
lose to do anything they could ever get caught at, and everything can be
found out by someone somewhere.

But in case you still think that ebay is up to something I have the number
of a man that used to hang out on a "Grassy Knoll" in Dallas, perhaps
together you can both get to the bottom of ebays conspiracy to prevent
searches.

Thanks

Mark M.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Rieben" <johnny_at_artifacts4all.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay is ripping everybody off at least once!
(OT)


> 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.
>>
>>
>
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Received on Sun 30 Jul 2006 01:06:07 PM PDT