Talk:EBay/Archive 1

message: Why is there no mention of eBay's upcoming seller fee increase of Feb. 18, 2005? The increases are sparking protests, the signing of petition(s), and sellers' threats to move their business to competing auction sites, all of which made the news.
*Why should there be? It's hardly a controversy when a company wants more money and the customers want to pay less. Every time eBay changes anything, there are protests, people signing petitions, and sellers threats to move their business to competing auction sites. It's been that way from pretty much day one. When eBay started charging for reserve auctions: protests. ("It's only a dollar!") Every time eBay raises any fees: protests. Every time eBay changes the layout of a page: protests. With millions of customers, with hundreds of thousands of sellers, it only takes a miniscule proportion of the customers to seem like some sort of groundswell to business reporters who know they can get an article run if it mentions eBay. At any rate, the answer to "why no mention" is always the same here on Wikipedia: if you want it mentioned, mention it yourself. Likewise to the following question about half.com -- sure, it's important, add it to the article. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 16:17, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Controversy

message: Wasn't half.com also aquired by ebay?
: Yes, it was. Several years ago, actually. David Hoag 21:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  half.com aquistion 

message: Does anyone have a more up-to-date list of the five most expensive items sold on eBay? Surely Pope Benedict's old car would be on the new list, wouldn't it? --Angr/comhrá 06:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most expensive items 

message: Recently, I heard a news report on Channel 4 in the Metro Detroit area.  This news report talked about police badges being sold on EBAY and how they lead to falsified police imposters.  Should we make an article about this controversy? --SuperDude 03:19, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police badges 

message: Why does this service, which is linked on this page, ask users for their eBay passwords?  Why not just allow users to create an account for themselves?  Is this site legitimate?
:: the idea of the service (if you read the article) is that it enables bid sniping, ie placing a bid in the last few seconds. The SnipeSwipe service places the bid on your behalf, and thus requires the auction number, and your username and password. Of course you could bid yourself, but ensuring you are available to bid in the last few seconds could be tricky, hence services like this exist. It is quite reputable, but you are right in thinking that you're ultimately trusting the company with your ebay password; whether you chose to do that is down to you. UkPaolo 22:12, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: SnipeSwipe service

message: How do you get started? What if you don't have a credit card? Does anyone know any auctions online that are free? PAypal is that like the way to go if you don't have a credit card? I hope someone can help. --Somaliafriend 18:57, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  this page should really be discussions about the eBay wikipedia article. you should ask questions about the ebay site, at the site directly. In answer to your question, however, I think you'll find that it's up to individual sellers as to what payment methods they accept. Some may accept cheque (check US), etc. UkPaolo 19:00, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently it's time for somebody to do a general article on internet auction sites in general. Gzuckier 19:23, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ebay no credit card? 

message: I'm uncomfortable with the lack of sources on these things; I'd like something more than "I heard somewhere that". --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 1 July 2005 03:27 (UTC)
:: yes, better sources would be good. Although i have to say that I have also heard most of these things, so I suspect they are widley enough known to be true. the trouble is that the auctions will probably long since have been deleted, so it's hard to document them... UkPaolo
:::Burnt toast as Elvis? Can we remove this till we have some kind of evidence, else we'll end up with a long list of questionable 'items'.sars 13:07, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
I'm putting it here for now:
* A burnt toast was sold for hundred $ because looked like a pic of Elvis. 
sars 13:08, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
Some one is currently offering there place in heaven on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4604067913 should we wait till its over before putting on here? also i can't find his full name.
*Seems to me unlikely to be a legit auction; I don't think the seller owns what they are trying to sell. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 18:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unusual items 

message: I couldn't see why User:Jpgordon felt the need to "roll back trivial self-serving irrelevancy" over the anonymous addition of reflectoporn, so i've restored it (all be it now under a heading of it's own). It's something i'd never heard of which made me laugh when I read the article, and is clearly a true phenomenen if you try google, or visit reflectoporn.com etc. I can imagine if it gets deleted here, we'll end up with a seperate article entitled reflectoporn, which would then probably go through VfD and end up merged back here. Of course, we could try splitting it into a seperate article, and see if it survives... it was clearly a big enough subject to merit a newspaper article, so perhaps a user looking it up in an encyclopedia should expect to find it... UkPaolo 1 July 2005 07:49 (UTC)
:When the first revert happened, I googled the term and got over 3,000 results.  Sounds legit, and yeah, I've seen it too.  Meh, there are less relevant things listed on this page.  I'd leave it.Chairboy 1 July 2005 16:51 (UTC)
** I have restored this section again, as per my reasoning above. UkPaolo 13:37, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reflectoporn rollback 

message: Plugwash has moved this page (to the current place). Whilst it might seem better on some systems (no capatilisation), on mine there is a big gray rectangle before the title (presumably a infinitesimal space character that would stop the E from being capatilised - but is not installed on my computer). Something needs to be done about this. --bjwebb 17:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: it was just an idea. if it causes problems then feel free to revert it. Plugwash 18:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

text: there seems to be an article with a grey rectangle before the title, which redirects to eBay, which then works correctly. The workaround is a bit of a hack, but congrats Plugwash - neat idea to use the Unicode char, and it does seem to work. UkPaolo 20:12, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What I'm saying is that the Unicode char is not on my computer - the title still doesn't work for me (but it does for you) --bjwebb 13:15, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Move 

message: I once attempted to list my soul for sale on ebay and my auction was taken down. I recieved a very lengthy form letter from ebay that had obviously been prepared for this type of auction. The jist of it was "If a human soul does exist, it would be a part of the human body, and selling parts of the human body is against ebay policy. If a human soul does not exist, you have no actual item to sell which is prohibited." So I have serious doubts as to the allegation that "many people" have done this successfully. Can someone cite? Pacian 08:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Souls