You can set your watch by it. Every time there’s a post about eBay that mentions “free shipping” somewhere in it and you get some clown who says one of the following two things:
“There’s no such thing as free shipping!”
or the hilariously moronic
“I went to the post office and asked for the free shipping….” [insert paraphrase of “they said there was no such thing” or “they had no idea what I was talking about”]
Every time I read one of these my reaction is basically, “OMG, shut up, shut up, shut up!” Continue Reading »
A very big thank you to everyone who entered, promoted or retweeted my
little contest! I actually didn’t pass 3,000 followers (I went to bed with
2992 and woke up to… 2989. I offended 3 people by going to sleep?) Since I
started this contest with 2,902 followers, I still consider it a success. 
And I intend to reward another lucky follower when I finally do pass 3,000
so stay tuned. 
I had 20 Twitter accounts that entered. My plan was to use Tweetaways but apparently
their contest limit (though unlisted) is too short to use for this as it would
eliminate early entries. So I decided to use Random.org’s
Random Number Generator instead. I numbered all the entries (in order form
newest to oldest) and then asked the generator for a number with a minimum of
1 and maximum of 20.
So the number generator spat back (drum roll, please)…. 16! Which means that
our winner is
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(I meant to post this on last Friday and I forgot. Sorry about that! My brain is apparently still on summer vacation.)
eBay recently announced a long overdue change in how they handle DSRs. Starting August 24th, if a sell offers free shipping and the buyer selects that option, when they leave feedback the buyer will be unable to leave a rating for shipping cost and the seller will automatically get 5 stars in Shipping Cost. The fact that buyers could rate the shipping cost anything less than 5 stars when the shipping was free was always a bit ridiculous so this change is a welcome relief from what was always a silly policy.
You can read the official release here.
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