"broken toy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Slack" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:07:32 -0800, routebeer <[email hidden]>Quoted message said:Quoted message said:For your protection, please be aware that eBay discourages all
transactions, which are initiated by parties other than the seller
andQuoted message said:the winning buyer in a completed eBay listing. Sales that take place
outside of eBay carry a potential fraud risk and are not eligible for
eBay services, including feedback, contact information requests, and
theQuoted message said:eBay Fraud Protection Program.
Yeah, well, I can assure you that transactions taking place INSIDE of
eBay also carry a potential fraud risk, and I'm sure eBay doesn't give
a [censored] about it. They just don't want to miss their cut of the action.I'm already soured on the whole ebay experience, not that I was exited
about it before. Between the scammers, crappy goods and shady/poorly
written ads, there isn't much hope I hold out for them.
Ebay was great when it was mostly people trying to sell individual goodies
they didn't need. It's still a good place to unload stuff like that but the
whole thing has been taken over by the regular "dealers" selling stuff at or
above regular retail. Where there used to be maybe a dozen entries to judge
when you type in "Deore XT" now there are page after page, mostly from
liquidators.
A year or so ago I put in a bid for a XXL Specialized Team jersey. I
wondered where it came from since they didn't sell anything larger than XL
as long as I'd known them. Turned out these either didn't exist or where
illegal knock-offs. I'll never know, as Ebay killed the auction after the
folks at Specialized complained.