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Sorry about my "empty" post. I also have lost interest in eBay. As Ross points out, Ebay is being used more as a "store front". Ebay and PayPal are linked and I refuse to use PayPal. Meg Whitman, the...
View Articleebay, love/hate you
1. using ebay as a store front makes a lot of sense. especially if you take into consideration that its one of the most successful ecommerce sites. 2. whats dishonest about using a program to buy items...
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It stopped being an auction site when sellers were allowed to set a reserve price that was the same as the retail price.
View ArticleCure for sniping
Sniping can be fixed by extending the auction by 5 mins if anyone bids in the last 5 mins.
View Articlebleh.
eBay auctions have become too commercialized for me to care to deal with them anymore. Everyone knows how to exploit the system to sell the item for more; they auto-bid on an item just to raise the...
View ArticleI Really Like Ebay
I'm able to use it to get hard to find older things. Parts for my cars (an '86 and a '91), old NES games, an entertainment center that could hold my huge CRT television, CRT computer monitors, etc.. I...
View ArticleRe: ebay, love/hate you
The point is that bots ruin it for the average person who signs in every once in a while to bid. Even if they bid with like...10 seconds left... a bot will usually steal that away from you. You'd have...
View ArticleRe: bleh.
Much of the time the Buy it Now price is only a few bucks higher than the final auction price depending on what you buy. Most importantly, there are so many people on eBay now that you have an absolute...
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Sometimes you can find some hard-to-find items on eBay, like camera equipment that is out of production, and get a good deal on it. But there are too many times that auctions mysteriously get bid up....
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eBay used to be a fair system. But then everyone went a developed a bunch of bots to automatically outbid you at the last second of the auction. It's impossible to win anymore so what's the point. Now...
View ArticleRe: Cure for sniping
That's no cure...that's a bigger problem...THE AUCTIONS WOULD NEVER END!
View ArticleRe: Online Auctions No Longer Fun
That's not always the case. Some of the merchants on there are quite legit and in some cases, charge a whole lot less than brick and mortar stores or even other web sites. My gripe has always been the...
View ArticleNeed it Now
eBay still has the advantage in being able to find almost anything you could possibly be looking for. Whatever it is, someone somewhere has one for sale. But I am not a collector on the "hunt", when I...
View ArticleOOP Books
Like others have said, eBay is useful to find those rare or outdated items. I recently bought an Out of Print book for a decent price. Here's a tip: you can create an RSS feed from any search or...
View ArticleRe: Re: Cure for sniping
Actually they will who ever is trying to cheat the system will get it but they will be paying closer to the max price they set for the item
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For awhile, I used Ebay as a store front. It worked decently well, I actually got a fair bit of traffic from it to my real website. I also made quite a few sales. The problem was I got a lot of bogus...
View ArticleRe: Too many cheaters
Sorry but there's absolutely nothing wrong with sniping. If you want to win an auction "honestly", put your full bid on there, if it doesn't win it wouldn't matter since the other party obviously...
View ArticleRe: Re: ebay, love/hate you
Then make a REAL bid, not something that just barely beats the current highest bid; if you want it that badly you should be willing to pay for it. If they bid more than you, regardless of when or how...
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