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

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 ?

Sorry to hear about it. Isn't it a sick, sinking feeling when an
auction you are running is suddenly yanked?

At least you were given a reason.

I have now sent in THREE inquiries asking why the listing was removed,
with NO response from eBay.

Apparently they are arrogant now that they remove your auction and don't
even tell you why.

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.

Someone else will invent a better mousetrap, make a billion bucks and
get as big and arrogant as ePAY. It's a vicious cycle.

Dan

Dan here is what you do....
Grab some Ebay logo, and take a picture of it, Post it in the auction like
you would any item with photos not forgetting to put the Registered sign
next to the Ebay logo.
Just entitle it " EBAY ARE TYRANTS " and explain your case in the
description and put a 0.01 cent value on the ad.
I'll bet you it wont take a minute before they get back to you.
Furthermore, any emaikl you send to Ebay should be accompanied with a CC: to
your local consumer advocacy group, any Newsnet service you like and even
the newspapers if you have too.
It's by rattling the cage that you awake the animal.
Let us know how you make out.

--
" Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. "
"Dan Conti" wrote in message
...

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 ?

Sorry to hear about it. Isn't it a sick, sinking feeling when an auction
you are running is suddenly yanked?

At least you were given a reason.

I have now sent in THREE inquiries asking why the listing was removed,
with NO response from eBay.

Apparently they are arrogant now that they remove your auction and don't
even tell you why.

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.

Someone else will invent a better mousetrap, make a billion bucks and get
as big and arrogant as ePAY. It's a vicious cycle.

Dan

Dan here is what you do....
Grab some Ebay logo, and take a picture of it, Post it in the auction like
you would any item with photos not forgetting to put the Registered sign
next to the Ebay logo.
Just entitle it " EBAY ARE TYRANTS " and explain your case in the
description and put a 0.01 cent value on the ad.
I'll bet you it wont take a minute before they get back to you.
Furthermore, any emaikl you send to Ebay should be accompanied with a CC: to
your local consumer advocacy group, any Newsnet service you like and even
the newspapers if you have too.
It's by rattling the cage that you awake the animal.
Let us know how you make out.


I was very upset at first, as these threads indicate.

I have cooled off now, and learned a bit along the way as well.

Much of this problem I brought upon myself. I can learn from it and
move on. I may NEVER get an answer from eBay. So be it.

I've been on these groups for years, and should have known the the type
of folks who lurk here.

I didn't do anything underhanded or deceitful in my initial actions, and
I don't plan on starting now.

Dan

Dan , Forgot to mention, I had a BOSS once who ****ed me off so bad I wanted
to Kill him.
Instead, what I did was PURCHASE a YEARS SUBSCRIPTION to some hardcore GAY
S&M MAGAZINE ( paid cash off course ). And what I did was On the
APPLICATION, I WROTE HIS NAME, BUT his 3 rd door NEIGHBOR'S ADDRESS......
So guess what, the guy who received it made it a point to deliver it to MY
BOSS in person.
I would have loved to be there when he handed the S&M Gay magazine to him.
Sometimes it costs very little to get even with people and all along giving
you the satisfaction of a job well done.....( I still rejoice today just
thinking about it )....ha ha ha

--
" Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. "
"Dan Conti" wrote in message
...

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 ?

Sorry to hear about it. Isn't it a sick, sinking feeling when an auction
you are running is suddenly yanked?

At least you were given a reason.

I have now sent in THREE inquiries asking why the listing was removed,
with NO response from eBay.

Apparently they are arrogant now that they remove your auction and don't
even tell you why.

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.

Someone else will invent a better mousetrap, make a billion bucks and get
as big and arrogant as ePAY. It's a vicious cycle.

Dan

Dan , Forgot to mention, I had a BOSS once who ****ed me off so bad I wanted
to Kill him.
Instead, what I did was PURCHASE a YEARS SUBSCRIPTION to some hardcore GAY
S&M MAGAZINE ( paid cash off course ). And what I did was On the
APPLICATION, I WROTE HIS NAME, BUT his 3 rd door NEIGHBOR'S ADDRESS......
So guess what, the guy who received it made it a point to deliver it to MY
BOSS in person.
I would have loved to be there when he handed the S&M Gay magazine to him.
Sometimes it costs very little to get even with people and all along giving
you the satisfaction of a job well done.....( I still rejoice today just
thinking about it )....ha ha ha


Very funny stuff indeed, but despite what most think of me here, I am
not that type of person.

Once again...

I didn't do anything underhanded or deceitful in my initial actions, and
I don't plan on starting now.

Dan

Good luck anyway Dan.

--
" Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. "
"Dan Conti" wrote in message
...

Dan , Forgot to mention, I had a BOSS once who ****ed me off so bad I
wanted to Kill him.
Instead, what I did was PURCHASE a YEARS SUBSCRIPTION to some hardcore
GAY S&M MAGAZINE ( paid cash off course ). And what I did was On the
APPLICATION, I WROTE HIS NAME, BUT his 3 rd door NEIGHBOR'S
ADDRESS......
So guess what, the guy who received it made it a point to deliver it to
MY BOSS in person.
I would have loved to be there when he handed the S&M Gay magazine to
him.
Sometimes it costs very little to get even with people and all along
giving you the satisfaction of a job well done.....( I still rejoice
today just thinking about it )....ha ha ha


Very funny stuff indeed, but despite what most think of me here, I am not
that type of person.

Once again...

I didn't do anything underhanded or deceitful in my initial actions, and I
don't plan on starting now.

Dan

That boss story was pretty good.
My first boss way back when was a scum bag.
I sent him a xmas card to the shop.
He opened it while talking to the owner of the place.
As he opened the card they both saw a
un-rolled condom that had Ivory liquid all over it.
And I wrote "to Bob, A real prick".
It took everything I had not to burst out laughing.
Needless to say, I sent him a card for many years.
Childish, yes, but the payback in front of the owner... priceless!!




Ad Hoc Guy wrote:

Good luck anyway Dan.




-- " Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. " "Dan Conti"
wrote in message
...




Dan , Forgot to mention, I had a BOSS once who ****ed me off so bad I
wanted to Kill him.
Instead, what I did was PURCHASE a YEARS SUBSCRIPTION to some hardcore
GAY S&M MAGAZINE ( paid cash off course ). And what I did was On the
APPLICATION, I WROTE HIS NAME, BUT his 3 rd door NEIGHBOR'S
ADDRESS......
So guess what, the guy who received it made it a point to deliver it to
MY BOSS in person.
I would have loved to be there when he handed the S&M Gay magazine to
him.
Sometimes it costs very little to get even with people and all along
giving you the satisfaction of a job well done.....( I still rejoice
today just thinking about it )....ha ha ha




Very funny stuff indeed, but despite what most think of me here, I am not
that type of person.

Once again...

I didn't do anything underhanded or deceitful in my initial actions, and I
don't plan on starting now.

Dan

Sky King... That was a good one. I like it. Next time try to leave a gift
wrapped box under his desk with a large brand new alarm clock inside that
goes TIC TOC TIC TOC. dont forget to put a nice note inside which says in
Latin " Tempus Fugit " ( Time flye's ) . But make sure you handle
everything with surgical gloves. he he he he . I'd like to see his face when
he finds it.
The same goes for Doberman ****.

--
" Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. "
"Sky King" wrote in message
...
That boss story was pretty good.
My first boss way back when was a scum bag.
I sent him a xmas card to the shop.
He opened it while talking to the owner of the place.
As he opened the card they both saw a
un-rolled condom that had Ivory liquid all over it.
And I wrote "to Bob, A real prick".
It took everything I had not to burst out laughing.
Needless to say, I sent him a card for many years.
Childish, yes, but the payback in front of the owner... priceless!!




Ad Hoc Guy wrote:

Good luck anyway Dan.



-- " Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. " "Dan Conti"
wrote in message
...



Dan , Forgot to mention, I had a BOSS once who ****ed me off so bad I
wanted to Kill him.
Instead, what I did was PURCHASE a YEARS SUBSCRIPTION to some hardcore
GAY S&M MAGAZINE ( paid cash off course ). And what I did was On the
APPLICATION, I WROTE HIS NAME, BUT his 3 rd door NEIGHBOR'S
ADDRESS......
So guess what, the guy who received it made it a point to deliver it
to MY BOSS in person.
I would have loved to be there when he handed the S&M Gay magazine to
him.
Sometimes it costs very little to get even with people and all along
giving you the satisfaction of a job well done.....( I still rejoice
today just thinking about it )....ha ha ha



Very funny stuff indeed, but despite what most think of me here, I am
not that type of person.

Once again...

I didn't do anything underhanded or deceitful in my initial actions, and
I don't plan on starting now.

Dan