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"Located in UK" search returns US sellers

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0000

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I have been doing searches (for a 256Mb Secure Digital card) but I am only interested in buying from a seller located in the UK. However, even though my advanced search includes "Items located in … United Kingdom", a number of the items it returns are from US-based sellers where they state that the items are located in the US and will be shipped from there. Examples are 2950586686 and 2950832233. 1) Is there any way that I can filter these out from my search? 2) Are they breaking any eBay rules? — Philip

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I don’t know of a way to filter them, it appears to be a quirk in the way eBay performs the search. Since the buyer is in the US and has his location listed in the US, I can’t see what rule he’d be breaking. Listing in the UK site is an option on Turbo Lister, which is an eBay product that this seller used to list his auction, and apparently the search for items listed in the UK brings up all items listed on eBay.UK, where ever the item is really located.

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ebay with its new popup ads

admin — Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 +0000

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey Im going to sue ebay unless they take their stupid ass pop ads off its spam and im getting sick of one little pop up that ebay throws up that turns into twenty popups and crashes my computer why the hell does ebay have popup ads popups will destroy your company WHAT "popups"…? I use eBay ALL the time, and don’t see any popups. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape… and NO popups. No special "popup killer" software, and NO popups. You seem to be seriously confused. BobR I never see them either, Bob, and thought there weren’t any. But if you go into eBay through the home page much (which I hardly ever do), you *will* see some. Mac

Well, now I -really- feel left out..! I just went in through eBay’s "front door" and didn’t get a single popup..!!! I’m going to sue eBay for making me feel bad..!! Wah..! (So that’s what the front door looks like now… hmm.. Video Games… Arcade Machines… stop..! stop..!!) BobR

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right somehow this stupid ass program called LOP was installed on my computer piece of crap program took over everything finally got it off after hours of figuring it out

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right somehow this stupid ass program called

Now apologize to eBay for threatening to sue them, and turn your vitriol towards the true offender.

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I wish I could ebay is easiest tho sue sue sue sue give me money for nothing while I ruin your life

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I just went to eBay.com homepage and clicked away and I did get a pop-up ad….they are doing it as it was for an eBay product the dads and grads tingy that they have plastered on their homepage. The page that popped up was; http://pages.ebay.com/merchpopup/dadgradA.html eBay always claimed in the UK forums they would never use pop up advertising….. I’m not going to be suing them for using legal but annoying advertising techniques tho

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Odd, I have spent a lot of time on Ebay lately and have *never* gotten a popup. You might check out Pest Patrol, I suspect you have a little ad program hiding on your PC that places popups and buttons so they look like they’re part of a site. Hope this helps, Paul E. Hey Im going to sue ebay unless they take their stupid ass pop ads off its spam and im getting sick of one little pop up that ebay throws up that turns into twenty popups and crashes my computer why the hell does ebay have popup ads popups will destroy your company

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muttered something like: I just went to eBay.com homepage and clicked away and I did get a pop-up ad….they are doing it as it was for an eBay product the dads and grads tingy that they have plastered on their homepage.

One of the many reasons I use Mozilla; you can turn off pop-ups without needing any third-party programs. -Bertha (not an employee, etc.) — If I want your opinion, I’ll read your entrails.

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I just went to eBay.com homepage and clicked away and I did get a pop-up ad….they are doing it as it was for an eBay product the dads and grads tingy that they have plastered on their homepage.

Worse than pop-ups, perhaps, is spyware. Each time I go to eBay, the site tries to install ‘Mediaplex’, which Spybot informs me is a known threat.

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I just went to eBay.com homepage and clicked away and I did get a pop-up ad….they are doing it as it was for an eBay product the dads and grads tingy that they have plastered on their homepage. Worse than pop-ups, perhaps, is spyware. Each time I go to eBay, the site tries to install ‘Mediaplex’, which Spybot informs me is a known threat.

Well.. that’s the final straw..!! I’m gonna suem now for sure..!! They’ve NEVER tried to install "Mediaplex" or anything else on my system…. I feel left out..! No popups either..!!! eBay sux fer sure!! BobR

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and the people who put nospam in their email addy im sure they get lots of business

I don’t seek "business" through this newsgroup. That’s what eBay is for. Nobody’s had a problem reaching me yet, and spam on this account is at a minimum accordingly. Try it sometime; you may just learn something.

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Odd, I have spent a lot of time on Ebay lately and have *never* gotten a popup. You might check out Pest Patrol, I suspect you have a little ad program hiding on your PC that places popups and buttons so they look like they’re part of a site. Hope this helps, Paul E.

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Hey Im going to sue ebay unless they take their stupid ass pop ads off its spam and im getting sick of one little pop up that ebay throws up that turns into twenty popups and crashes my computer why the hell does ebay have popup ads popups will destroy your company

WHAT "popups"…? I use eBay ALL the time, and don’t see any popups. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape… and NO popups. No special "popup killer" software, and NO popups. You seem to be seriously confused. BobR

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I never see them either, Bob, and thought there weren’t any. But if you go into eBay through the home page much (which I hardly ever do), you *will* see some. Mac

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Hey Im going to sue ebay unless they take their stupid ass pop ads off

You go right ahead and do that. I’m getting the popcorn ready, as you probably have entirely separate malware on your system which is feeding ads based on where it sees you going, and eBay being a popular place would be a big target for that. Ad-Aware is a great program for removing such tripe, and you may just save yourself the embarassment of a misdirected lawsuit (as if I thought it would ever get past the hot-air stage).

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How old are you? — Bigolhomo www.FirstTimeGuys.com

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people are still plagued by pop ups? http://www.proxomitron.org/ thank me later.

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I’m sure Meg’s shaking in her pumps. Yeah, *you’re* going to sue eBay. Pull the other one. In the meantime, check out: http://www.panicware.com/ — Bob

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popups will destroy your company

Just like the lack of spelling and punctuation has destroyed the Internet.

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and the people who put nospam in their email addy im sure they get lots of business only from other users who know how to fix it which is only a few Sorry I didn’t go back and check my msgs maybe next time I will so I don’t get called a bad speller.

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If you havn’t figured out how to stop pop-ups by now then you are a moron and deserve to be ignored.

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wholesalers / Distributors

admin — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000

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Has anyone ever purchased a list that has actually panned out to be worthwhile ? —

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While some items can be bought at or below wholesale via eBay, you have to be cautious of seller overcharging on shipping. Many sellers sell at their cost, or a bit above, but make their money from the inflated shipping charges. To the original poster, no, these "wholesale" lists are "usually" not worth much. Vista Wholesale Novelties, As on Tv, Gifts: http://www.vistawholesale.com

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone ever purchased a list that has actually panned out to be worthwhile ? — There is no room for an additional finger in the pie. eBay prices are typically well below wholesale. See http://www.tinaja.com/auct01.asp for free and useful eBay product source listings. — Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 Please visit my GURU’s LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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While I’ve noted a few cases of abuse, more commonly I find some sellers grossly underestimate their shipping and handling costs – often just charging for postage.

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i need ideas

admin — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000

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what in the world is good to sell in ebay! any ideas or input? thanks….SK

Underwear. Everyone needs it. – - DL http://www.geocities.com/dicklong14_ca/fanclub.htm Evidently your buddy Cede

Simultaneous closing times for seller lots

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000

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In general, I’ve always felt that this is actually a BAD thing. If indeed a buyer is inclined to bid on more than one of your items to save on shipping or because they are similar items and desirable to him, there’s no time to snipe. Back when I was selling alot of Corel Photo CDs, I’ve had a buyer or two literally go down my list of closing auctions and bid on 10 or more just before they closed. So, yeah, Mister Lister, for example, let’s you post many auctions in one collection and will launch them, all closing within a second or two of each other. But even though it’s more work, when I have similar (but not identical) items, have felt it better to divy them up. — Mac (doogle)

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I’m showing my lack of knowledge here, but – I’ve noticed that some sellers have multiple items for sale (sometimes up to a dozen or more) – and all the lots close at the exact same date and time. Is there software that allows you to enter all your lots at the same time – thus making the closing time all the same? How is this done? Thanks.

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I’ve just started using Mr. Lister, which is free software you can download from Ebay that allows you to upload multiple auctions to Ebay at one time. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m showing my lack of knowledge here, but – I’ve noticed that some sellers have multiple items for sale (sometimes up to a dozen or more) – and all the lots close at the exact same date and time. Is there software that allows you to enter all your lots at the same time – thus making the closing time all the same? How is this done? Thanks.

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There are a few programs that will allow batch posting. I think even eBay has a feature for it. I use Auctiva, and they just upgraded with batch posting that’s supposed to be a snap — of course, when I tried it, I kept getting "illegal operation" errors and crashing. C’est la vie.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m showing my lack of knowledge here, but – I’ve noticed that some sellers have multiple items for sale (sometimes up to a dozen or more) – and all the lots close at the exact same date and time. Is there software that allows you to enter all your lots at the same time – thus making the closing time all the same? How is this done? Thanks.

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Mister Lister, a free eBay product. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m showing my lack of knowledge here, but – I’ve noticed that some sellers have multiple items for sale (sometimes up to a dozen or more) – and all the lots close at the exact same date and time. Is there software that allows you to enter all your lots at the same time – thus making the closing time all the same? How is this done? Thanks.

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http://auctionsubmit.com does just what you are inquiring about, and is free.

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Did your email change Ebay?

admin — Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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How about doing your investigating BEFORE you list an item, especially as a newbie? The people who have listed their PC games in the Photo-Electronics:Games category did so by their own free will, not eBay’s. I’m not saying the category is correct. But, it appears to be where the masses are placing their auctions. Also, for what it is worth, a good number of folks will argue that categories are not as important as good titles and descriptions. This is based upon the idea that many people do keyword searches to find items they are looking for. You’ll find eBay is probably a lot more difficult to change than to work with its faults. Mike Tedeschi – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – You are new to eBay. You have a pc game to sell. You click SELL. First window you see is a page with major catagories. You look and see this setup link: _Computers_ , software,games,…etc. You complete the auction setup in that catagorey. You view your auction catagorey for others selling pc games and see maybe one other pc game. Then you find the vast vast majority(90%) of pc games for sale are in Photo-Electronics:Games, NOT COMPUTERS,as you were first directed to. Look, don’t tell me I can switch catagories,thats not the point. There’s a blatant error in the setup SELL page. Noone is selling pc games in: Computers. I emailed them last month and they say they have forwared my suggestion to their catogorey review board.No change. I think they automate replies with keywordings. Go see for yourself. Hundreds if not thousands of pc games listed under Photo Electronics:Games. A new user should not be misdirected so. I wonder if a few of you wouldn’t mind forwarding this email to eBay (after confirming). If for no other reason,to see if eBay needs a lot of emails to set them into some kind of action, even if it’s not a really serious issue or flaw. I suppose there are bigger issues, so maybe…nevermind. jdc

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How about doing your investigating BEFORE you list an item, especially as a newbie?

Be gentle; the very definition of "newbie" is probably "person who makes a lot of irritating mistakes", irritating to self and others. The people who have listed their PC games in the Photo-Electronics:Games category did so by their own free will, not eBay’s.

Right: in US jingoese: "…the right of the people to peacably assemble…". I’m not saying the category is correct. But, it appears to be where the masses are placing their auctions.

Just like Net newsgroups; give time for a crowd to assemble, then start selling tickets while you can, before the flock veers away. Also, for what it is worth, a good number of folks will argue that categories are not as important as good titles and descriptions. This is based upon the idea that many people do keyword searches to find items they are looking for.

Very good idea, the whole point of searching is to get the information seen in mind but somewhere just out of reach on the web site. You’ll find eBay is probably a lot more difficult to change than to work with its faults.

Speaking from within eBay Product Development, you have no idea how much harder. The categories issue is under pretty much continuous review and categories are split, changed, whatever works, on a fairly regular basis. They still need even more splitting to make the volume of each smaller, so that searching a particular category for an item of the type to be found there gets less painful, but then the categories themselves, as in the present complaint, become harder to find. It’s a puzzlement. We could probably use a good librarian, book indexer, or other classification specialist online and inhouse, and for all I know may have several. I just read http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001005S0004 that university enrollments for librarians in the UK are the only ones going up faster than the ones for web technologists. May be a cause and effect relationship there. Also, there is more than one way to slice a pie. Take a look at http://www.links2go.com for a fairly novel approach to a net wide problem: how to get the information seeker to the information in the least painful way possible. This searching, indexing, classifying, categorizing business is not a done deal by any means, there are still huge grounds for improvement, at eBay and elsewhere. Don’t expect perfection ever, the problem is much too hard. Do expect that eBay is constantly aware of and working the issue, and that incremental improvements will continue. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Mike Tedeschi You are new to eBay. You have a pc game to sell. You click SELL. First window you see is a page with major catagories. You look and see this setup link: _Computers_ , software,games,…etc. You complete the auction setup in that catagorey. You view your auction catagorey for others selling pc games and see maybe one other pc game. Then you find the vast vast majority(90%) of pc games for sale are in Photo-Electronics:Games, NOT COMPUTERS,as you were first directed to. Look, don’t tell me I can switch catagories,thats not the point. There’s a blatant error in the setup SELL page. Noone is selling pc games in: Computers. I emailed them last month and they say they have forwared my suggestion to their catogorey review board. No change.

A month is far shorter than a software development cycle. For lots of enterprises, software updates range from twice a year to once every two years. Here at eBay we are lunatics, we try to do a rollout a week, but that doesn’t mean in the door and out onto the site in a month. A month probably won’t get the Marketing Requirements Document written, reviewed, and approved, among all the other changes competing for attention, though that’s a guess. That then has to be translated from Marketing’s "wouldn’t it be nice if the user experience was" to Engineering’s "here’s how we plan to support the user doing" in an Engineering Requirements Document. Then you go from that architecture level document through design, code, unit test, debug, system integrate, test, debug, quality assurance in depth testing and user friendliness testing, debug, rollout to production. Then the real debugging starts, as scenarios never envisioned in testing hammer our "poor defenseless" code, as of yesterday, at almost 900 megabytes per second, in and out, a new record. My particular contribution (really low level internals stuff invisible to users, except as quicker bug fixes if all goes well, sorry) has been underway since early June, and is just this past week starting to trickle into the production code, to give you a little more realistic set of expectations for the necessarily glacial pace of changes in large, easily broken, difficultly modified, software source code bases. I think they automate replies with keywordings. Go see for yourself. Hundreds if not thousands of pc games listed under Photo Electronics:Games.

On the bright side, I cannot think of anything _else_ that would go in such a category, except perhaps handheld games, and if you are advertising to game players, best to advertise where their eyes are already looking. A new user should not be misdirected so.

Were your first experiences driving a car perfectly smooth? Probably very little in the owner’s manual was of help at all. It isn’t really fair to expect that your first try will be as easy as your hundred and first try. The eBay site is, and advertises itself to be, a tool, a "facilitator" in the words of the help pages. Like all tools, skill grows with use. I wonder if a few of you wouldn’t mind forwarding this email to eBay (after confirming). If for no other reason,to see if eBay needs a lot of emails to set them into some kind of action, even if it’s not a really serious issue or flaw.

It is amazingly unproductive to try to provoke email carpet bombing of eBay; for every issue you have with the site, something like 19 million other users have each probably got a separate "eBay’s worst feature" all picked out, not likely to be yours. On the other hand, with 19 million users, I’m guessing, just guessing, mind you, that we are doing at least a little bit right, and that after you get over your first use of a new tool hurdles, you will find something you like about the site too. I doubt it will be the Photo Electronics Games category, though! ;-) I suppose there are bigger issues, so maybe…nevermind. jdc

We have a fellow in public relations (VP in charge of, to be precise, or, in the really just _lovely_ press term, "corporate flack") who just loves to hear about ways we are doing things well and ways we could do things better, so consider your message forwarded. Speaking just for me, not the folks who sign my paycheck, as ever. Cheers! xanthian. ===== random archival quality quote ===== Guilty of thread drift again. — Kent Paul Dolan.

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HI JDC, I know that ebay has been trying to fix some of the screwy categories. They recently re-did the jewelry category which was a real mess. I sell mostly pottery and glass in those categories there are misspellings, and several cases of porcelains in the pottery category and vice versa. Frustrating, yes. When it will be fixed? Your guess is as good as mine. Jessica – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -You are new to eBay. You have a pc game to sell. You click SELL. First window you see is a page with major catagories. You look and see this setup link: _Computers_ , software,games,…etc. You complete the auction setup in that catagorey. You view your auction catagorey for others selling pc games and see maybe one other pc game. Then you find the vast vast majority(90%) of pc games for sale are in Photo-Electronics:Games, NOT COMPUTERS,as you were first directed to. Look, don’t tell me I can switch catagories,thats not the point. There’s a blatant error in the setup SELL page. Noone is selling pc games in: Computers. I emailed them last month and they say they have forwared my suggestion to their catogorey review board.No change. I think they automate replies with keywordings. Go see for yourself. Hundreds if not thousands of pc games listed under Photo Electronics:Games. A new user should not be misdirected so. I wonder if a few of you wouldn’t mind forwarding this email to eBay (after confirming). If for no other reason,to see if eBay needs a lot of emails to set them into some kind of action, even if it’s not a really serious issue or flaw. I suppose there are bigger issues, so maybe…nevermind. jdc

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You are new to eBay. You have a pc game to sell. You click SELL. First window you see is a page with major catagories. You look and see this setup link: _Computers_ , software,games,…etc. You complete the auction setup in that catagorey. You view your auction catagorey for others selling pc games and see maybe one other pc game. Then you find the vast vast majority(90%) of pc games for sale are in Photo-Electronics:Games, NOT COMPUTERS,as you were first directed to. Look, don’t tell me I can switch catagories,thats not the point. There’s a blatant error in the setup SELL page. Noone is selling pc games in: Computers. I emailed them last month and they say they have forwared my suggestion to their catogorey review board.No change. I think they automate replies with keywordings. Go see for yourself. Hundreds if not thousands of pc games listed under Photo Electronics:Games. A new user should not be misdirected so. I wonder if a few of you wouldn’t mind forwarding this email to eBay (after confirming). If for no other reason,to see if eBay needs a lot of emails to set them into some kind of action, even if it’s not a really serious issue or flaw. I suppose there are bigger issues, so maybe…nevermind. jdc