Sorry for budding in Dan, But what you say is very true about Ebay. I
recently posted a switch key for sale and the bids were going great until
Ebay pulled the rug from under me removing the add saying that the key I was
selling received complaints from "certain " people and that it was still in
use today...blah blah blah. Who the hell does Ebay think they are ? The
authorities watch dog ?
Christ I pay at least 200$ a month in advertising not to mention the
substantial "cuts" Paypal takes off MY earnings.
Needless to say that I for one am very ****ed also and especially sickened
by the abusive Capitalistic Tyrant ways Ebay demonstrates. TOO BAD we dont
have other options as popular as FleaBay.

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" Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. "
"Dan Conti" wrote in message
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eBay, an idea that started out with good intentions, to serve the internet
community has gone the way of so many other internet services of it's
type. They think they're GOD, (along with many on these groups who think
they are almost God, or NEWGROUP POLICE at the very least).

eBay is now only concerned with MILKING the very MOST money they can from
it's customers. Try to call them on the phone? Are you kidding? Send
them an e-mail? Good luck. They don't care, and why should they, they're
the only game in town. U.S. Capitalism at it's best, but more about THAT
later...

I recently put a UNIDEN 296D and 796D scanners on eBay for sale, and also
made FA posts on these groups. Luckily, the 296D sold early with BUY IT
NOW, and for some strange reason, the 796D was bid to a price past what
the original BUY IT NOW pricing was. Yep, there's that good ole US
capitalsim at work again. No one twists arms to bid that high, and as far
as I know, ther is NO mechanism on eBay to STOP a bidder from bidding an
item TOO HIGH.

The auction was to end today. I would have had a decent return for my
scanner, and the buyer would have a brand new, in box, never opened, never
used scanner.

But yesterday eBay replaced my auction with this notice......

***This listing (5759983900) has been removed by eBay or is no longer
available. Please make sure that you've entered the item number correctly.
If the item was removed by eBay, please consider this transaction
canceled***

I DID NOT CANCEL THE AUCTION.

eBay offered NO explanation as to why they removed this auction. As far
as I know, the 796D is NOT banned for sale on eBay. They cancel your
auction, but they DO NOT refund your listing fee. They send you NO e-mail
explaining the removal. NONE. I sent them an inquiry, but so far no
response. This is NO WAY to do business.

I am now out the listing fees, and the financial reward of the winning
bid. eBay, or SOMEONE hurt me bad in this, for no legitimate reason....

Other then what I THINK happened.

Some NO LIFE, MISERABLE lurker in these groups, basically a RAT , SCUMBAG
dropped a dime on my newsgroup listings to eBay, and they removed my
auction. If you check my newsgroup post, and it's responses, you can
formulate some potential suspects for yourself.

Day in and day out these newsgroups are LOADED with nonsensical SPAM, and
hore**** to beat the band, and nothing is ever done about it. Because
someone was basically JEALOUS that my auction would bring a few bucks more
then THEY thought it was worth, they act like a RAT ******* Newsgroup Cops
and cause me harm.

Well folks, the gloves are off. I will offer the scanner on a straight
FOR SALE basis 80 ZILLION times on these groups. Since it is
unfortunately the only game in town, if I have to, I will re-post it on
eBay, but will follow eBay's rules and NOT post any FA on the newsgroups,
not even rec.radio.swap.

However, rest assured, that I will make a second vocation of reporting ANY
and ALL FA eBay posts I find to eBay ad nauseum. Even those on the
rec.swap group. eBay rules DO NOT allow posts even on a swap or for sale
newsgroup. So, all you fellow hobbyists who get censored or DUMPED by
eBay like I did, thank your fellow ASSHOLE lurker for it.

Yes, this was LONG and I am ****ED. Thanks for reading.

Dan