Aw, c'mon guys... of course Ebay wants to control everything about its
auction site. If any of us owned Ebay we would want to do the same --
business is business. The things people are complaining about are hardly
"latest changes" -- this was all old news back in 1998 when I first
started selling on Ebay. Even at that point they would not allow a new
username to be registered with a .dot com in it and it was *always*
against Ebay policy guidelines for Ebay bidders and buyers to contact
each other to try and do a deal off outside of the Ebay system. Back
then, their system was so transparent (accidentally, not by design or
intent) that they didn't really have any way of preventing it, and so it
happened a lot. And I mean a lot. I did it, so did most others who were
around back then. Ebay finally started actively campaigning against
off-site transactions in 2000 and by 2003 had made it much more
difficult for bidders and buyers to get together outside of the Ebay
system. But you can still do it today: All you have to do is send the
seller a question using the Ebay mail system -- and don't check the
"hide my address from the seller" box -- and indicate in the message
that you want to talk about something and that the seller is "welcome"
to reply to you "personally". If seller is so inclined he will get what
you mean and send you a reply to your private address with his private
address and then you reply to him -- viola, you're both doing business
off the Ebay site.
-- JR
Bruce Hershenson wrote:
It's worse than you know! They not only are trying to move *ALL*
communication (even after-sale communication) to being forced through
their own system, but they want to make it a "crime" to contact biders
or buyers any other way than through their system!
I *USED* to think having a dotcom user ID (emovieposter.com
<http://emovieposter.com>) meant something, but now it really doesn't.
And it is just a matter of time before they take those away too.
It is like living in a ghetto 100 years ago. First the authorities
take one "right" away from the ghetto dwellers, and they say, "well,
we can deal with that" and then they take away another, and another,
and another, until finally no one has any rights left at all,
Bruce
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de
<mailto:texasmu...@web.de>> wrote:
I second Kirby on this one. I used to throw in bids for good
measure, just to have my user-id show. Fortunately, I registered
back in '99, when
filmposter(dot!!!)net was still allowed... I stopped doing this
since they are hiding the bidder names.
Did you notice, that at some point eBay has made it completely
impossible to contact a seller directly after you won an item? No
more seller's email address, and even retracking
contact data from eBay will give you the address and (sometimes) a
phone number, but no email contact.
Nowadays, Big Brother eBay wants to monitor ANYTHING.
Maybe it's just me, but I find this extremely annoying.
Helmut
Am 23.08.2009 um 17:42 schrieb Kirby McDaniel:
Not missing a thing. And bring back the transparency of the
entire system - where you can see the buyers, contact them
etc. See who is bidding
against you etc. Sure, it might bring some communication
between the members, result in more than a few off-site deals,
but it would be
better and probably more remunerative for ebay than the
present morass.
K.
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