4 Feb
2004
4 Feb
'04
8:37 p.m.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
Considering that eBay is nothing more then a middleman
between a buyer and a
seller I can see why they would not want it to be easy for people using the
system to communicate between each other through eBay. You can easily ask
any seller a question you want for any active auction.
Right, and with a valid eBay account you can always directly contact other
users to offer stuff. True, some of the more goody-two-shoes users may
turn you in, but I wouldn't doubt that eBay has some filters in place to
flag these messages for review and then restricts accounts where this is
happening.
My only problem with eBay to date is not being able to
browse auctions more
then a month old to find out the selling price history (or availability) of
things I want to add to my collection. I haven't been burned by them yet so
I cant comment on their customer support over disputes.
Yes, that sucks majorly. Wired a couple issues ago had a top 100 ideas
kinda article, and one of them was for eBay to keep the listings up past
30 days. Such an unfriendly company...
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