Gents, Firstly sorry about the typo-in my posting it should have read NON-payment. I'm sure you all knew what I meant. Good point all-the IRS is, I'm sure going to take full advantage of this change. Although bear in mind that money orders and checks leave trails too. This will just make it a bit easier I'd imagine. E-Bay isn't the only game in town, it is however the biggest by a mile. A friend of mine just quite E-Bay due to their heavy-handed actions. He made a typo on the shipping charges of an item and rather than contact him they simply pulled the auction. He joined eBid: http://us.ebid.net/ He seems happy for now, but I looked in and found a grand total of three 78s! Maybe in time. Craigs List is good too but I have had the best luck record-wise on E-Bay and I don't see any alternative for me. I don't drive so I can't do the flea markets and yard sales &c. and even with Craigs list most things generally are pick-up rather than mail. Brantley, I know what you are saying and I agree with you in the main, but a boycott will not work, for every one person that leaves one or two will up their bidding because the competition lessens and the prices drop which makes E-Bay more appealing and then someone else joins and negates the first person leaving. E-Bay doesn't care who's bidding and selling as long as someone is. They really don't care if they have a huge turnover. That's why I think the idea of a flood of complaints might have an impact. It doesn't even have to be a majority, just enough to make them take notice. The squeaky wheel principle, it has been known to work. Let's all take a step towards what Brantley opines; everyone here who uses E-Bay-at least join ebid just as an example and tell your friends in the hobby, if sellers know there are buyers there they will list there, who in their right mind would ignore a potential market? I haven't joined yet but I think I will look into the details tonight and if anyone's interested I'll report back.
Regards, John B. P.S. Also I plan on reporting my complaints about Paypal to them as well as parent E-Bay. we've got to let them know if we have complaints-they haven't hired Dionne Warwick yet, as far as I know. ;-)
