Arnhemjim
Corporal
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2009
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Fellow Forum Members,
I was recently advised by e-Bay that I was “celebrating” a decade of participation in their “enterprise”. Have to explain that I have only been a buyer, and not a seller. Miraculously I have never been disappointed or “burned” within either the e-Bay auctions or PayPal banking system. “Knock on wood,” I have apparently been extremely lucky!
A few years ago I originated, and still maintain, 4 guides on e-Bay, and judging by the “hits” they have proven very helpful. With that established level of approval I was encouraged to establish my own blog, and have incorporated all 4 guides within the new blog.
Over the same span of time I have seen an increasingly heavy hand of e-Bay management imposing restrictions on items allowed for auction, firearms and German WWII items (even toy soldiers) as specific examples. Simultaneously they have implemented “revenue enhancement” provisions on one hand, and at the same time done little or nothing about proven unscrupulous individuals, both buyers and sellers, who are blatantly gaming the system. I, along with the rest of the forum membership, have been reading an increasing number of horror stories regarding e-Bay actions and in-actions (depending on which is profitable to them and/or politically correct).
My question to the forum is, would it be worth it as a “vote of protest” to delete my guides from e-Bay (now they are on the blog)? That is if I can (they my have back-up copies), or would it be merely a hollow and pyrrhic victory not worth the effort?
Regards,
Arnhem Jim
I was recently advised by e-Bay that I was “celebrating” a decade of participation in their “enterprise”. Have to explain that I have only been a buyer, and not a seller. Miraculously I have never been disappointed or “burned” within either the e-Bay auctions or PayPal banking system. “Knock on wood,” I have apparently been extremely lucky!
A few years ago I originated, and still maintain, 4 guides on e-Bay, and judging by the “hits” they have proven very helpful. With that established level of approval I was encouraged to establish my own blog, and have incorporated all 4 guides within the new blog.
Over the same span of time I have seen an increasingly heavy hand of e-Bay management imposing restrictions on items allowed for auction, firearms and German WWII items (even toy soldiers) as specific examples. Simultaneously they have implemented “revenue enhancement” provisions on one hand, and at the same time done little or nothing about proven unscrupulous individuals, both buyers and sellers, who are blatantly gaming the system. I, along with the rest of the forum membership, have been reading an increasing number of horror stories regarding e-Bay actions and in-actions (depending on which is profitable to them and/or politically correct).
My question to the forum is, would it be worth it as a “vote of protest” to delete my guides from e-Bay (now they are on the blog)? That is if I can (they my have back-up copies), or would it be merely a hollow and pyrrhic victory not worth the effort?
Regards,
Arnhem Jim
