Browsing the blog archives for June, 2008

Open Letter to eBay Customer Service department. . .

any goodwill that you may think that you are earning by using a real person to call instead of a recording is squandered if the person has never read the script before and sounds like an idiot.
Exhibit A:

Cyber Smooches!-H

Should You Report Deadbeat Buyers to eBay? Yes!

With the threat of negative feedback removed, in theory, unpaid item reports should be way up. However, eBay says that is not the case.
Ian Steiner has an article on this topic on her blog. In specific, she cites another article where sellers are specifically warned against filing UPIs (Unpaid Item).
I usually agree with Ian on [...]

eBay Rage and Realism

I know that I have been very negative lately in my eBay posts. I am angry about a lot of things that they are doing as are a lot of people. But I wanted to take a quick moment to look at the other side of the coin. After all, I have a tendency to [...]

On second thought, maybe all this eBay brouhaha is all an elaborate ploy in reverse psychology. . .

You know you keep reading that eBay was just a fad, that is on the way out, that no one uses it anymore, etc? What if this is all an elaborate ploy?
Remember when I said that prices were still really good, especially at this time of year. Take a look at this. Hey, I love [...]