Saturday, November 17, 2007

Honestly, how does this only have 50 views?

I thought this was unbelievable...check it out... NYC acappella.



Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Kidney anyone? (PIC)

So apparently eBay let's you skip that whole indexing wait game cycle thing if you're selling something in high demand.

Kinda like my left kidney...

Clicking makes it bigger!

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

More proof


Fully searchable immediately. So why the lies?

eBay is BS'ing us! PROOF! PIC!


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I'm sick and tired of eBay's BS! I used to love the site, but this corner cutting and blatant lying is crossing the line. I try to use their site whenever I wish to sell something of mine, but I (as well as a great many other sellers) have been having very interesting findings.

I'm not sure if you all are aware, but eBay claims that listings go through an "indexing cycle" before they are searchable. They claim it's for Trust and Safety reasons--> See here

Now, that's all well and good, but why does it take so long? I've listed about 30 items in the past two weeks and none have indexed in under four hours. NONE.

This is not a rant. I found out that they're just blatantly lying. Feeling curious, I went and questioned one of their Live Help reps after something very interesting happened. What happened? Well, I decided that I wanted to move a laptop I'm selling from my eBay store and list it as a Buy It Now item. I was experimenting with settings, so I wanted to list it in the future...tomorrow. Well, I did and a paid an extra dime to do that. But, when I was looking at it in the scheduler, I noticed I entered the wrong date. I didn't choose this Sunday, but I instead chose NEXT Sunday. So, I went back and fixed it, but changed it to start in 15 minutes.

Low and behold, my laptop showed up immediately. NO indexing delay. NONE.

Wow, this must be a miracle! Oh, but then I remembered that it's 2007 and not 1997.

Anyway, I went over to Live Help and asked about the process. They claim that it's an automated process and does not involve manually checking each listing. So, what's the issue?

I gave it another go. I wanted to make sure I wasn't just a witness to an eBay miracle.

I decided to list a "Bic Mechanical pencil" but this time I chose to purposely list it way in the future using the scheduled listing feature. I then went back and immediately revised the listing to start at the next available slot...10 minutes later.

Guess what happened after 10 minutes? My pencil listing was immediately searchable! So eBay stop cheating us! Stop stealing our listing time!

And here are pics to prove it-->