lol, I think the iPhone is supposed to do that! Muhuhuhahahaaa. That's right, Walt, I was a member of eBay about 8 months after they opened... Yahoo! auctions actually had more listings at that time if I remember correctly. And I think I was among the first 2000 PayPal members or something, www.x.com indeed! And yet I missed the class action lawsuit. Darn.
r. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt" <[email protected]> To: "'Antique Phonograph List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:35 PM Subject: RE: [Phono-L] How auctions change policies: wasProtectedBiddingon ebay! Ahhh....but, before PayPal was "PayPal" they were www.X.com. Anybody remember that? They actually started after eBay I think (by a year or two or three), but quickly became the only economical option for the average Joe who doesn't own a business to use credit cards conveniently and became remotely attached to eBay. If you go to www.x.com it will dynamically transfer you to PayPal. Yes...those WERE the days Robert.... Soon, who knows, maybe this summer at say, the Union Show, just maybe....we will see the first "PayPal" branded pocket sized wireless credit card terminal, the "PayPod", secretly built by Apple... LOL (Then again, I shouldn't laugh...It may be prophetic, or is it already reality?) Walt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Wright Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:18 PM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] How auctions change policies: was ProtectedBiddingon ebay! Amen... I was a member of PayPal before eBay had ever heard of 'em -- back when everything about it was totally 100% FREE of charge! For the record, I gave up on MapQuest a long time ago, because they were soooo slooooowww, probably because of all the ads. I've been using http://local.live.com/ for a while and I love pretty much everything about it. It's an MSN concern, and I guess they have enough money, cuz there aren't any annoying ads. Not even ad banners. Best, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] How auctions change policies: was Protected Biddingon ebay! > The business plan for web based services like auctionzip is to initially > offer the service free until a > user base is built up large enough to justify charging a fee for the > service. They have a good idea how > many free users will convert to paid and how many will leave. Nothing new > here with this approach. > bandwidth is not free and if you get too large you can no longer use a > residential DSL line to host your > website. Plus, the entire idea of offering any service to the public is > to make money. Mapquest did it > with add revenue. When was the last time you used mapquest? You can not > find the map for all of > the adds. > > Rich _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.0/639 - Release Date: 1/18/2007 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
