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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Reading comprehension skills? Check. TS Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle-Motion.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sometimes it helps to read all the words: EBay Will Close Half.Com Site By End Of 2004 Source: Forbes SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Reuters) – Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (nasdaq: EBAY – news – people ) plans to close its Half.com Web site at the end of 2004, by which time it will have merged all the items for sale on that site into the appropriate categories on the eBay site, a spokesman said on Thursday. Half.com, which eBay bought in the summer of 2000 for $241 million in stock, features books,… Alice I’ve heard it’s because they’ve been charging "illegal" fees within their shipping / handling fees.
Even worse, they have been showing –gulp– favoritism to their better customers!!!! — 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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It was kinda expected that HALF.COM would close sooner or later. Uhhh you did know that HALF.COM and EBAY.COM or not the same site now didnt u?????
I got the sense that eBay bought out Half.com due to the fact that it presented a decent alternative to auctions — items permanently up for sale, without bidding requirements or timeouts. eBay has now incorporated this feature into the eBay site, so phasing out Half.com makes sense from the standpoint of corporate strategy. Raab
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is
You are impling that "ebay will be shutting down". When I accessed the link you provided it told us something different that everyone has probably known in the last 2 months about half.com. Please be careful who you say is "shutting down", say half.com NOT ebay. johnml43
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Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle-Motion.
Love that movie. — Hand me down my soup and fish I am gonna get my wish.
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Another X-No-Archive spammer. I wouldn’t want his "news" lost in the archives. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Path: newssvr16.news.prodigy.com!newscon07.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodig y.com!prodigy.com!news.cc.ukans.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!pln-w!spln!dex! extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews4 Newsgroups: alt.marketing.online.ebay Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Lines: 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: p-182.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: newsmst01.news.prodigy.com alt.marketing.online.ebay:385379 By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
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Just a question for the group. Which do you find more disturbing, that this idiot posted a URL to support his claim that contained an article that didn’t have anything to do with what he was claiming, or the fact that he considered a March 2003 article summary hot news? I’m sure it was just a troll and he got what he was fishing for.
Many people have no idea. If you look on Google, all of the reply author’s posts are hanging in thin air, replying to an original post which is not there. The author posts X-No-Archive because all he (or she) wants is the flurry of activity his troll/spam originally generates here in the group. Good luck.
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I’ve heard it’s because they’ve been charging "illegal" fees within their shipping / handling fees.
You heard that? And what is illegal ? If I sell you a piece of paper, and charge you $100 shipping & handling, how is that illegal? To e-mail me, remove theobvious from my e-mail address.
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It was kinda expected that HALF.COM would close sooner or later. Uhhh you did know that HALF.COM and EBAY.COM or not the same site now didnt u????? I got the sense that eBay bought out Half.com due to the fact that it presented a decent alternative to auctions — items permanently up for sale, without bidding requirements or timeouts. eBay has now incorporated this feature into the eBay site, so phasing out Half.com makes sense from the standpoint of corporate strategy.
Totally ‘big business ethics’ – buy your competitors out and then shut them down. 
— Niel Humphreys
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Thanks for that news flash KZIZ, you idiot! Do you have any other year-old news to share with us?
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently.
Man…..my heart dropped when I first saw this topic. Glad it’s not true. Beth
Sheesh! If that upset your delicate nature, I can’t imagine how severely traumatized you must have been when you heard the Mars Explorer was having problems. http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/spirit01.html
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I’ve heard it’s because they’ve been charging "illegal" fees within their shipping / handling fees. You heard that? And what is illegal ? If I sell you a piece of paper, and charge you $100 shipping & handling, how is that illegal?
whoosh… (I was playing off a previous post that claimed "Not only are you prohibited by eBay’s terms from charging the buyer for your listing, final value, and PayPal fees, calling them "shipping" is fraud. Charging them through the Internet is wire fraud.")
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Sometimes it helps to read all the words: EBay Will Close Half.Com Site By End Of 2004 Source: Forbes SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Reuters) – Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (nasdaq: EBAY – news – people ) plans to close its Half.com Web site at the end of 2004, by which time it will have merged all the items for sale on that site into the appropriate categories on the eBay site, a spokesman said on Thursday. Half.com, which eBay bought in the summer of 2000 for $241 million in stock, features books,… Alice
I’ve heard it’s because they’ve been charging "illegal" fees within their shipping / handling fees.
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis.
Welcome back McCreedy. To e-mail me, remove theobvious from my e-mail address.
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Just a question for the group. Which do you find more disturbing, that this idiot posted a URL to support his claim that contained an article that didn’t have anything to do with what he was claiming, or the fact that he considered a March 2003 article summary hot news?
Both! :)
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Dont you just love it when people make it up as they go along?. Go back and read it again!!!!
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Just a question for the group. Which do you find more disturbing, that this idiot posted a URL to support his claim that contained an article that didn’t have anything to do with what he was claiming, or the fact that he considered a March 2003 article summary hot news?
I’m sure it was just a troll and he got what he was fishing for.
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Just a question for the group. Which do you find more disturbing, that this idiot posted a URL to support his claim that contained an article that didn’t have anything to do with what he was claiming, or the fact that he considered a March 2003 article summary hot news?
Mark S’ (goatlike) replied: Both! :)
I find it disturbing that you consider *both* to be more disturbing! What I especially liked about the OP was his/her creative approach to the article summary. All that stuff about massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis.
Walter Mitty pales to insignificance in comparison! Show this person a queue at a bus stop and he/she’ll root out a conspiracy in no time! …Perhaps. On sad reflection, though, the OP is probably actually just a third-rate troll, rather than an imaginative genius. — John http://rarebooksinjapan.com
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It was kinda expected that HALF.COM would close sooner or later. Uhhh you did know that HALF.COM and EBAY.COM or not the same site now didnt u?????
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
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Man…..my heart dropped when I first saw this topic. Glad it’s not true. Beth
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html They are shutting down Half.com which they announced ages ago, not ebay itself. Even says so in the headline. Lori — Looking for sexy fashions in leather, pvc, shoes, accessories and more? Visit my online store at www.sensualelegance.com NOW WITH OVER 3500 ITEMS ONLINE AND MORE ADDED DAILY! For spiritual, magical and mystical items, see www.mysticconvergence.com http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mysticconvergence/ & http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/sensualelegance/
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
No. Read what the story actually says. It says eBay will be closing its subsiduary half.com. sPoNiX
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Just a question for the group. Which do you find more disturbing, that this idiot posted a URL to support his claim that contained an article that didn’t have anything to do with what he was claiming, or the fact that he considered a March 2003 article summary hot news?
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Boy, a whole flock of ‘em flew over that time. — 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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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
They are shutting down Half.com which they announced ages ago, not ebay itself. Even says so in the headline. Lori — Looking for sexy fashions in leather, pvc, shoes, accessories and more? Visit my online store at www.sensualelegance.com NOW WITH OVER 3500 ITEMS ONLINE AND MORE ADDED DAILY! For spiritual, magical and mystical items, see www.mysticconvergence.com http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mysticconvergence/ & http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/sensualelegance/
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By the end of 2004 Ebay will be shutting down permanently. This is due to the massive amounts of lawsuits against Ebay from buyers and sellers, which is leading to financial crisis. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/420462.html
Sometimes it helps to read all the words: EBay Will Close Half.Com Site By End Of 2004 Source: Forbes SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Reuters) – Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (nasdaq: EBAY – news – people ) plans to close its Half.com Web site at the end of 2004, by which time it will have merged all the items for sale on that site into the appropriate categories on the eBay site, a spokesman said on Thursday. Half.com, which eBay bought in the summer of 2000 for $241 million in stock, features books,… Alice
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