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Re: YUK - Ebay may be down ALL DAY

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From: kelly england
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
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My experience, selling since the beginning of ebay has been positive. When
they are down, they extend the auction. They purchase servers routinely to
keep up with the demand.  Slowdowns on the internet are inevitable with
traffic increasing...get a faster connection if possible. My only complaint
is because of lack of competion, which is not their fault.   I also started
doing poorly because of market trends and other things...still no really the
fault of ebay. I'm not a cheerleader for them, just my personal experience.
Reverend Tweek <tweek@netcom-NO.SPAM-com> wrote in message
news:FDDJs3.6KH@moraga.ness.com...
| Daniel Ganek  <ganek@radionics.com> wrote:
| >kelly england wrote:
| >>
| >> Where in  this post does it mention suing anyone???
| >
| >Contacting the State's ATtorney is close.
|
| I believe that there was another posting which suggested it as a route
| to go since the eBay agreement led to binding arbitration rather than
| a law suit.
|
| >Given the network
| >volume they experience I don't see how Elric can say that they don't
| >have the technology.
|
| I understand *why* Elric doesn't like them, and it is a valid reason. I
| don't see how his reasons justify his going on a witchhunt against them
| for every tiny flaw he finds.  (IMO, he should stick to the main problem
| he has and it will lend more credibility to his arguement.)  IIRC, Elric's
| problem has to do with eBay having a secret list (or no list at all) of
| additional banned items (fully legal scanners is one such item which
| comes to mind, but if they pick up cellular frequencies, even if they are
| fully legal as is, and you mention it,   Whack!, it's a shut down
auction.)
|
|
| >eBay is a private company and can set whatever policies they want.
|
| The problem comes when they set forth one policy in writing, and then
| change the rules in the middle of the game, no notice, no written change
| in policy... just the "You are now on double super secret probation" for
| violating policy...  and no indication of what they policy was or is.
|
| However, going to the friggin AG because eBay had a major system
| problem?  That's comparable in my mind to suing Safeway because they
| closed one of their stores for a few days because one of their freezer
| cases set the lint collecting underneath on fire and caused some
| considerable damage to the store.
|
|
|
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| | Had your share of stoopid(tm) people? |
|
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|
| |  http://www.io.com/~tweek/cocowhine/  |
|
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From: "kelly england" <crystalunicorn@home.com>
Subject: Re: YUK - Ebay may be down ALL DAY
Date: 1999/06/15
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