E-Bay Strike Feb 18-25 making national news

[Shattered]

Oh, this is one of the more "heartbreaking" signatures:

Small sellers like myself will not be able to make any profit with this new fee structure & the loss of our feedback showing after 12 months is just stupid. Most alarmingly is that slap in the face to sellers when eBay says we can no longer leave negative feed on an abusive buyer who deserves it, which is a disservice to all eBayers who would not know of the buyers actions! I SAY BOYCOTT NOW! NO BUYING OR SELLING UNTIL EBAY FIXES THIS MESS! Swimswithfishes(eBay ID)

Guaranteed this guy is selling stuff he has laying around his house doing nothing.. What kind of "profit" does he expect to make? What kind of "profit" do you think he is "entitled" to?

Sell your shit at a rummage sale - you'll do better.

EDIT:

Oh, my mistake - he's not selling his own shit. He's selling shit from ANOTHER COUNTRY. Check out the last portion of his TOS:

PAYMENT! Payment to be made by USPS Money Order for US buyers. This payment is to go my father in AZ and the knives ship from Tokyo. DO NOT SEND PAYMENT TO JAPAN! I want all eBay payment to stay in the US! I can accept personal checks from US buyers with 50+ positive feedback with no negatives for non-payment. You would have to wait about two weeks or so for my slow bank to clear check though before I ship. But this is an option! Buyers from outside the USA may contact me for payment options! SORRY, NO PAYPAL! Please, no zero feedback bidders or those with lots of negatives for non-payment. I reserve the right to cancel bids of those who do not follow this policy. Thanks for reading & good luck with the auctions! Greg(swimswithfishes)

eBay can MORE than afford to lose morons like this.

Get a fucking grip.

 

[Lookout]

Out of more than what.. 500 MILLION? Incidently, SIGNING that petition only means people disagree with the fee increase - not that they're actually going to pull any auctions. It's YOU that's the idiot, dear.. You're doing the equivalent of no more than standing in front of Walmart with a sticker sign stuck to a toothpick hoping to gain attention.

IT IS ON ALL THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA...CNN, FOX, ETC...I CAN'T WAIT TILL AFTER THE 25TH OF FEB SO I CAN COME FIND YOU ON HERE AND RUB YOUR NOSE IN IT. YOU ARE ONE OF THE REASONS THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED UP. NEVER DO ANYTHING ACCEPT PROTEST. IT IS YOU WHO ARE THE MINORITY WITH THE TOOTH PICK SIGN SWEETIE. YOU PROBABLY BELIEVE BUSH IS A GREAT PRESIDENT AND THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT. YOU PROBABLY THINK BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND THE 911 ATTACKS. YOU PROBABLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE USS LIBERTY OR FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS. THIS WILL BE MY LAST COM. WITH YOU UNTIL FEB 25TH WHEN I HUNT YOU DOWN ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD AND RUB YOUR NOWE ALL IN YOUR OWN SHIT...DUMB ASS!

 

[Lookout]

God, please save us from the stupid ones, i know you said the meek will inherit the earth...are you sure you didn't mean the freeks will inherit the earth?

 

[Shattered]

IT IS ON ALL THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA...CNN, FOX, ETC...I CAN'T WAIT TILL AFTER THE 25TH OF FEB SO I CAN COME FIND YOU ON HERE AND RUB YOUR NOSE IN IT. YOU ARE ONE OF THE REASONS THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED UP. NEVER DO ANYTHING ACCEPT PROTEST. IT IS YOU WHO ARE THE MINORITY WITH THE TOOTH PICK SIGN SWEETIE. YOU PROBABLY BELIEVE BUSH IS A GREAT PRESIDENT AND THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT. YOU PROBABLY THINK BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND THE 911 ATTACKS. YOU PROBABLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE USS LIBERTY OR FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS. THIS WILL BE MY LAST COM. WITH YOU UNTIL FEB 25TH WHEN I HUNT YOU DOWN ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD AND RUB YOUR NOWE ALL IN YOUR OWN SHIT...DUMB ASS!

LMAO! Keep reading, dearheart.. the rest of what I posted is SURE to send you into an even worse frenzy.

Fact is, the more you yap about this, the more your ass gets dragged through the mud by someone that's actually "been there, done that", on a LEGITIMATE basis..not some whiney-assed "I need lunch money and mom won't give me any" basis.

And for the love of God, stick to one topic in a thread, rather than distracting yourself into an illiterate frenzy.

 

[Lookout]

LMAO! Keep reading, dearheart.. the rest of what I posted is SURE to send you into an even worse frenzy.

Fact is, the more you yap about this, the more your ass gets dragged through the mud by someone that's actually "been there, done that", on a LEGITIMATE basis..not some whiney-assed "I need lunch money and mom won't give me any" basis.

And for the love of God, stick to one topic in a thread, rather than distracting yourself into an illiterate frenzy.

1. I Remember Now

[Instrumental]


2. Anarchy X

[Instrumental]


3. Revolution Calling

For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through


4. Operation: Mindcrime

It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure

A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn

Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign

Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed

Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure

Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign


5. Speak

They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us

I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us

Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow

The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the Word
The word is all of us

SPEAK!!!


6. Spreading the Disease

She always brings me what I need
Without I beg and sweat and bleed
When we're alone at night
Waiting for the call
She feeds my skin

Sixteen and on the run from home
Found a job in Times Square
Working Live S&M shows
Twenty-five bucks (a fuck)
And John's a happy man
She wipes the filth away
And it's back on the streets again

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

Father William saved her from the streets
She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet
She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice
He takes her once a week
On the alter like a sacrifice

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in South America

Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease


7. The Mission

In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this Holy pain

Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game

I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way

I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality

Waiting for days longer
'til sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way

My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around

I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain

Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain

They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud


8. Suite Sister Mary

[SPOKEN]
[Dr. X:] "Kill her. That's all you have to do."
[Nikki:] "Kill Mary?"
[Dr. X:] "She's a risk, and get the priest as well."

10 P.M., I feel the rain coming down
My face feels the wet, my mind the storm
Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour
Moving silent, through the streets, they're mine, they're
mine

Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall
To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall
Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin
( [Mary:] "What are you doing out in the rain?" )
She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks
( [Mary:] "I've been waiting for you. Come in." )

Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground
They made you pay in guilt for your salvation
Thought you had them fooled? Now they've sent me for you
You know too much for your own good
Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here
My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam
What we need is trust, to keep us both alive
Help us make it through the night

[Mary]
I've no more want of any faith
Binds my arm and feed my mind
The only peace I've ever known
I'll close my eyes and you shoot

No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my
lips
I pray I feed you well
Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long
For what you gave to everyone
The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed
From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red
As he died he said thank you
I just watched him bleed

[Mary]
I feel the flow, the blessed stain
Sweating hands like fire, and flames
Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite
The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight

Mary, sweet lady of pain
Always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time

No time to rest yet
We've got to stop his game
Before madness has the final laugh
Too much bloodshed
We're being used and fed
Like rats in experiments
No final outcome here
Only pain and fear
It's followed us both all our lives
There's one thing left to see
Will it be him or me?
There's one more candle left to light

[Mary]
Don't turn your back on my disgrace
The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds...so deep
The sins of man are all I taste
Can't spit the memory from my mind
I can't cry anymore

Mary, my lady of pain, always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine


9. The Needle Lies

[SPOKEN]
[Nikki:] "I've had enough and I WANT OUT!"
[Dr. X:] "You can't walk away now."

I looked back once
And all I saw was his face
Smiling, the needle crying
Walking out of his room
With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream
You'll never get away

Cold and shaking
I crawled down alleys to try
And scrape away the tracks that marked me
Slammed my face into walls of concrete
I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall

Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...
Cries your name

Wet and raving
The needle keeps calling me back
To bloody my hands forever
Carved my cure with the blade
That left me in scars
Now every time I'm weak
Words scream from my arm

Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...
Cries your name
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...
Cries your name


10. Electric Requiem

([Nikki:] "Anybody home? Mary?")
Even in death
You still look sad
Don't leave me
Don't leave me...here
I want what you feel, believe me
Turn the current on


11. Breaking The Silence

They told me to run, but just how far?
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear?
The hate in my eyes always gives me away
The tension building slowly
Now I lost everything I had in you
Nothing we shared means a thing
Without you close to me
I can't live without you

Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer me

There's no direction to my stare
No more flame burning in my heart anymore
Quiet, I keep it to myself
Until the sun sets slowly
I hear your voice in the evening rain calling
Nothing will keep us apart
No more lies and fear
There's no end to our story

Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer
I could make all the wrong seem right
If you were by my side
I'd gather all the tears you cried
And hide them deep underground

Can't look back, it's just a waste of time
Can't erase this hate from my eyes

Breaking the silence of the night
Through the streets I'm screaming
Looking for you in the neon light
Why don't you answer me?
Breaking the silence with my cries
Can't you hear me screaming?
We could make all this wrong seem right
But you never answer me


12. I Don't Believe In Love

I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel

No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in lovev I need to forget her face, I see
it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel

No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel


13. Waiting For 22

[Instrumental]


14. My Empty Room

Empty room today
And here I sit
Chalk outline upon the wall
I remember tracing it
A thousand times, the night she died.
Why? (Why?)
There's no sleep today, I can't pretend
When all my dreams are crimes
I can't stand facing them
Now who will come
To wash away my sins
Clean my room, fix my meals
Be my friend?


15. Eyes Of A Stranger

[page:] Dr. David, telephone please. Dr. David
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton

All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Everytime I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you
Every night the dreams return to haunt me
Your rosary wrapped around your throat
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep
I see your face looking back at me

And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare

Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare [Lies behind my stare]

How many times must I live this tragedy
How many more lies will they tell me
All I want is the same as everyone
Why am I here, and for how long

And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
Eyes of a Stranger midi

 

[Shattered]

Oh, neat. Queensryche lyrics.

Perhaps you could tame that shit down, and like I said, stick to a topic? It's evident you know nothing about what you speak, but perhaps you could keep up better if you didn't try to multitask.

 

[Lookout]

Oh, neat. Queensryche lyrics.

Perhaps you could tame that shit down, and like I said, stick to a topic? It's evident you know nothing about what you speak, but perhaps you could keep up better if you didn't try to multitask.

blah,blah,blah,blah,blah...vomit!...blah,blah,blahblah,blah.

 

[Shogun]

When did using ebay become a constitutional right? This thread is laughable.


If disgruntled ebay users dont like ebay's policies they are free to create their own internet auction website. A week long boycott is a joke.


And Lookout... dude... I liked Geoff and the boys in the early 90s too but their music is hardly applicable when having your ass handed to you in a thread.

 

[pegwinn]

I'd start here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/index.html?_trksid=m40

...and then read every single link you can possibly get your hands on. You can never be too informed.

Thanks for the link. I shop EBAY but normally the good deal is killed by the S&H charges. I've sold one thing and the buyer didn't leave any feedback. I've only bought a handfull of items and got all good feedback.

I remember an email from them about changes but didn't read it since I am not exactly active.

Always nice to get something new to read, thanks again.

 

[Paulie]

Thanks for the link. I shop EBAY but normally the good deal is killed by the S&H charges.

On commodities, I've found that to be the case.

There are definitely things you can get cheaper than market retail though, even with S&H added.

Also, adjust your search to a certain radius from your zipcode that you'd be willing to travel to pick up instead of having it shipped.

I actually buy fish for my fish tanks from eBayers sometimes. I pay about 1/4 of what the price would be in a store.

 

[nibor]

On commodities, I've found that to be the case.

There are definitely things you can get cheaper than market retail though, even with S&H added.

Also, adjust your search to a certain radius from your zipcode that you'd be willing to travel to pick up instead of having it shipped.

I actually buy fish for my fish tanks from eBayers sometimes. I pay about 1/4 of what the price would be in a store.

S&H especially if calculated through paypal is most often INCORRECT............

 

[Shattered]

On commodities, I've found that to be the case.

There are definitely things you can get cheaper than market retail though, even with S&H added.

Also, adjust your search to a certain radius from your zipcode that you'd be willing to travel to pick up instead of having it shipped.

I actually buy fish for my fish tanks from eBayers sometimes. I pay about 1/4 of what the price would be in a store.

You are aware that if you pick up an item from a seller, neither you, nor the seller are covered against fraud, defective merchandise, etc? Even though the auction closed on eBay, it's still considered an "off eBay" transaction, and is also grounds for them suspending both of your accounts? Also, if you ever get ripped off, even if you made payment through Paypal with a credit card, you still have no recourse, even though the seller is required to prove shipment within 7 days? All he has to do is forward Paypal an email, and you're screwed.

 

[Shattered]

S&H especially if calculated through paypal is most often INCORRECT............

There is no "correct" shipping cost, so long as it doesn't fall under eBays definition of "fee avoidance", which is usually 50 times the actual shipping costs. It's up to you to decide what the item is worth to you.. Sellers ARE allowed to charge for packing materials, time to pack and drive to the post office, etc. That's why it's called "shipping & handling".

If it's a $10 item, and shipping charges are $8.95, and insurance is $1.10 (which sellers are NOT legally allowed to mark up), you have to decide if you're willing to pay at least $20.05 for that particular item, and bid accordingly.

"Fees" are the most common things people bitch about on eBay, but every freaking one of them is too damned lazy, or too freakin STUPID to do their homework

 

[Lookout]

When did using ebay become a constitutional right? This thread is laughable.


If disgruntled ebay users dont like ebay's policies they are free to create their own internet auction website. A week long boycott is a joke.


And Lookout... dude... I liked Geoff and the boys in the early 90s too but their music is hardly applicable when having your ass handed to you in a thread.

No one got their ass handed to them except the other person and of course ebay soon. People are abandoning ebay by the thousands. No one said anything about it being a constitutional right, I don't know where you got that from. We will see who has the last laugh. Ebay does not make ebay happen, the people who sell do. They can have as many buyers as they want, but without sellers they are nothing and they have no business. How about this...you go to work one day and everything you had agreed to at hiring had changed. Your salary went down and your boss had the right now to slap upside the head everytime he felt like it. Wow, it's not your "constitutional right" to work there but I bet you would be pissed off. I bet you might even quit. Some fat suit that knows nothing about selling online and dealing with the general public is making decisions about the businesses that many have built from scratch. He is making stupid changes without understanding what goes on between seller and buyer on a personal level. People that have a problem with people standing up for themselves are a problem. I am so sick of people sitting on their dead lazy ass and whining about how "we can't win", "They are too big and we are so small" Wha, Wha, Wha. Anyone defending ebay and their policies either doesn't have a clue what they are defending or they work for ebay...Period.

As of right now it looks like I will be taking my product's to:
Ioffer
bidville
overstock
amazon
To all the EBay fanboys. No one will take my place, most of the items I sell are only sold by me. The Xbox 360 cooler is made for me only via a 20+ year long contract because I helped developed it for the 360, so if someone steps in to fill that void on eBay I will make money in the lawsuit. My feedback speaks for itself, I sell good products at great prices and ship out very fast with priority mail. On average I list 150-300 items a week. On most of those items I pay the $20 extra to post in the Featured Plus section, so if I do not sell at least 5 items I do not even break even.
So to all of the EBay fanboys that keep trying to disrupt what we are doing hear, I say this: just because you like giving EBay the tongue as the are dry screwing you in the butt, does not mean the rest of us do.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3xfT0c99g&NR=1[/ame]

Check out power sellers unite and the ebay message boards and see for yourself whats happening. This strike is going to happen. The selllers are already taking their business to other auction sites. Those that remain behind and do not get on board with this movement WILL get swallowed up by the big machine and go down with the ship.

Since my last post...Ebay listings have dropped another 200,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Shattered]

No one got their ass handed to them except the other person and of course ebay soon. People are abandoning ebay by the thousands. No one said anything about it being a constitutional right, I don't know where you got that from. We will see who has the last laugh. Ebay does not make ebay happen, the people who sell do. They can have as many buyers as they want, but without sellers they are nothing and they have no business. How about this...you go to work one day and everything you had agreed to at hiring had changed. Your salary went down and your boss had the right now to slap upside the head everytime he felt like it. Wow, it's not your "constitutional right" to work there but I bet you would be pissed off. I bet you might even quit. Some fat suit that knows nothing about selling online and dealing with the general public is making decisions about the businesses that many have built from scratch. He is making stupid changes without understanding what goes on between seller and buyer on a personal level. People that have a problem with people standing up for themselves are a problem. I am so sick of people sitting on their dead lazy ass and whining about how "we can't win", "They are too big and we are so small" Wha, Wha, Wha. Anyone defending ebay and their policies either doesn't have a clue what they are defending or they work for ebay...Period.

As of right now it looks like I will be taking my product's to:
Ioffer
bidville
overstock
amazon
To all the EBay fanboys. No one will take my place, most of the items I sell are only sold by me. The Xbox 360 cooler is made for me only via a 20+ year long contract because I helped developed it for the 360, so if someone steps in to fill that void on eBay I will make money in the lawsuit. My feedback speaks for itself, I sell good products at great prices and ship out very fast with priority mail. On average I list 150-300 items a week. On most of those items I pay the $20 extra to post in the Featured Plus section, so if I do not sell at least 5 items I do not even break even.
So to all of the EBay fanboys that keep trying to disrupt what we are doing hear, I say this: just because you like giving EBay the tongue as the are dry screwing you in the butt, does not mean the rest of us do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3xfT0c99g&NR=1

Check out power sellers unite and the ebay message boards and see for yourself whats happening. This strike is going to happen. The selllers are already taking their business to other auction sites. Those that remain behind and do not get on board with this movement WILL get swallowed up by the big machine and go down with the ship.

Since my last post...Ebay listings have dropped another 200,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And after all that effort, you're still just as dumb today as you were yesterday. Your 300 items don't mean shit to anyone. Coolers? Pfft.

Ever wonder why you can't sell 5 items?

 

[Lookout]

And after all that effort, you're still just as dumb today as you were yesterday. Your 300 items don't mean shit to anyone. Coolers? Pfft.

Ever wonder why you can't sell 5 items?

You have already proved to everyone on this board that you are a dumb ass and have no idea what you are talking about...Must you continue?

 

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And you are right my small number of items mean nothing. But multiply that by at least so far 30,000

 

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You have already proved to everyone on this board that you are a dumb ass and have no idea what you are talking about...Must you continue?

Actually, what I've proven is that I know eBay like the back of my hand, and your only problem with it is you and your putrid little friends get busted for breaking the rules.

Incidently, they tried this whole strike thing before - never went anywhere, because only the insignificant peons like yourself who don't make any money anyway are the ones complaining..

For those that don't know, "Powerseller" status can be made by selling ONE item - it's not really anything that's going to give you any real bargaining power. Nothing but an ego boost.

 

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There is no "correct" shipping cost, so long as it doesn't fall under eBays definition of "fee avoidance", which is usually 50 times the actual shipping costs. It's up to you to decide what the item is worth to you.. Sellers ARE allowed to charge for packing materials, time to pack and drive to the post office, etc. That's why it's called "shipping & handling".

If it's a $10 item, and shipping charges are $8.95, and insurance is $1.10 (which sellers are NOT legally allowed to mark up), you have to decide if you're willing to pay at least $20.05 for that particular item, and bid accordingly.

"Fees" are the most common things people bitch about on eBay, but every freaking one of them is too damned lazy, or too freakin STUPID to do their homework

I guess I am lazy. I use a sniping program. The amount I enter is my ultimate max. So if the s&h is 10, and I enter 30, the software bids twenty.

BTW sniping doesn't seem to help me win more. A limit is a limit and as long as I have the self discipline to not bid early I will often lose out as the price goes above my max long before the snipe.

 

[Lookout]

Actually, what I've proven is that I know eBay like the back of my hand, and your only problem with it is you and your putrid little friends get busted for breaking the rules.

Incidently, they tried this whole strike thing before - never went anywhere, because only the insignificant peons like yourself who don't make any money anyway are the ones complaining..

For those that don't know, "Powerseller" status can be made by selling ONE item - it's not really anything that's going to give you any real bargaining power. Nothing but an ego boost.

Sorry, I would love to continue this friendly chat with you but I unlike yourself I have things to do to unite more people and actually get something accomplished. You are nothing more than a distraction to anyone trying to get something done. Good luck with the whining and sitting on your dead lazy ass. I hope someday you actually find hope, strength and the ability to pry your whiney dead lazy ass off your chair and roll up your sleaves and get involved with anything that isn't tearing others down that are trying to make a difference. You have already laid down and given up and will also get run over by the big machine...It really is too bad because we need everyone we can get to make things like this happen.

Do nothing and nothing will come of it. Do something and you could cause things to change. It is a good thing you are not in charge of anything because it would surely fail. You have a defeatis attitude and stand in the way of progress.