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Section seems incorrectly titled. While the first bullet has to do with buyers' concerns, the other two do not. The section seems generally more concerned with public and legal controversy surrounding eBay. Any ideas for a better title or a better arrangement of the information?
Removed the following from the end of the Profit and transactions sections due to POV bias:
", although this system is far from perfect as ebay's stubborn refusal to take a proactive role against abuses of its listing policies means that at any given time there are several dozen people selling feedback on ebay."
Any comments?
Requesting a seperate article listing notable, famous, odd, controversial, significant, or noteworthy auctions. Examples include the grilled cheese sandwich, various celebrity auctions, hoaxes and banned auctions, joke auctions, extravagant auctions or excessively bid auctions, etc.
Why is there no mention of eBay's upcoming seller fee increase of Feb. 18, 2005? The increases are sparking protests, the signing of petition(s), and sellers' threats to move their business to competing auction sites, all of which made the news.
Wasn't half.com also aquired by ebay?
The "ebay fraud" link at the end under the "related topics" secion simply redirects to the top of the page again. Somebody should either remove the link, or create an actual article on ebay fraud, and make the link go to the right place.
Good grief, a small piece of paper with a picture of a sportsman on it sold for almost as much as a small aircraft. I'll never understand the Americans' fascination with these card-type thingies. — JIP | Talk¨
is completely POV. "eBay had gotten away with..." implies that there is something wrong with eBay setting its own prices for its own services. The "virtual monopoly" line, likewise, is POV, and needs substantiation. The history is also incorrect; buyers do not pay "percentage fees" except in a small number of categories (if that). I suggest this paragraph be retooled if not removed; it's hardly a controvery (as I said above) when a company raises its prices and customers would rather pay less. I'd like someone neutral to come in and comment on this, since I'm clearly biased in favor of eBay. But I don't think things like "feeBay", "fleeBay", "pee-Air", and all the other nasty names a tiny minority of eBay users have come up with in their whine-fests are in the least bit encyclopedic. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 00:46, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone have a more up-to-date list of the five most expensive items sold on eBay? Surely Pope Benedict's old car would be on the new list, wouldn't it? -- Angr/ comhrá 06:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
The section has been renamed "some expensive items" due to the lack of referenecs on what the most expensive items are. Shawnc 02:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Recently, I heard a news report on Channel 4 in the Metro Detroit area. This news report talked about police badges being sold on EBAY and how they lead to falsified police imposters. Should we make an article about this controversy? -- SuperDude 03:19, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
I added two sub-sections under the heading "trivia" and felt like posting the fact that I did in the talk page because I am not sure if those facts that I added were true. I had read about them in an issue of Wired but cannot seem to locate the said issue. If someone were to checkup on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
-- Nelson 00:20, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
Why does this service, which is linked on this page, ask users for their eBay passwords? Why not just allow users to create an account for themselves? Is this site legitimate?
How do you get started? What if you don't have a credit card? Does anyone know any auctions online that are free? PAypal is that like the way to go if you don't have a credit card? I hope someone can help. -- Somaliafriend 18:57, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm uncomfortable with the lack of sources on these things; I'd like something more than "I heard somewhere that". -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 1 July 2005 03:27 (UTC)
I'm putting it here for now:
sars 13:08, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
Some one is currently offering there place in heaven on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4604067913 should we wait till its over before putting on here? also i can't find his full name.
I couldn't see why User:Jpgordon felt the need to "roll back trivial self-serving irrelevancy" over the anonymous addition of reflectoporn, so i've restored it (all be it now under a heading of it's own). It's something i'd never heard of which made me laugh when I read the article, and is clearly a true phenomenen if you try google, or visit reflectoporn.com etc. I can imagine if it gets deleted here, we'll end up with a seperate article entitled reflectoporn, which would then probably go through VfD and end up merged back here. Of course, we could try splitting it into a seperate article, and see if it survives... it was clearly a big enough subject to merit a newspaper article, so perhaps a user looking it up in an encyclopedia should expect to find it... UkPaolo 1 July 2005 07:49 (UTC)
Plugwash has moved this page (to the current place). Whilst it might seem better on some systems (no capatilisation), on mine there is a big gray rectangle before the title (presumably a infinitesimal space character that would stop the E from being capatilised - but is not installed on my computer). Something needs to be done about this. -- bjwebb 17:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
"A British man auctioned off an "air guitar" which included a shipping price of $8."
Was it definitely $8? Not £8, as he was British?
I once attempted to list my soul for sale on ebay and my auction was taken down. I recieved a very lengthy form letter from ebay that had obviously been prepared for this type of auction. The jist of it was "If a human soul does exist, it would be a part of the human body, and selling parts of the human body is against ebay policy. If a human soul does not exist, you have no actual item to sell which is prohibited." So I have serious doubts as to the allegation that "many people" have done this successfully. Can someone cite? Pacian 08:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
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Section seems incorrectly titled. While the first bullet has to do with buyers' concerns, the other two do not. The section seems generally more concerned with public and legal controversy surrounding eBay. Any ideas for a better title or a better arrangement of the information?
Removed the following from the end of the Profit and transactions sections due to POV bias:
", although this system is far from perfect as ebay's stubborn refusal to take a proactive role against abuses of its listing policies means that at any given time there are several dozen people selling feedback on ebay."
Any comments?
Requesting a seperate article listing notable, famous, odd, controversial, significant, or noteworthy auctions. Examples include the grilled cheese sandwich, various celebrity auctions, hoaxes and banned auctions, joke auctions, extravagant auctions or excessively bid auctions, etc.
Why is there no mention of eBay's upcoming seller fee increase of Feb. 18, 2005? The increases are sparking protests, the signing of petition(s), and sellers' threats to move their business to competing auction sites, all of which made the news.
Wasn't half.com also aquired by ebay?
The "ebay fraud" link at the end under the "related topics" secion simply redirects to the top of the page again. Somebody should either remove the link, or create an actual article on ebay fraud, and make the link go to the right place.
Good grief, a small piece of paper with a picture of a sportsman on it sold for almost as much as a small aircraft. I'll never understand the Americans' fascination with these card-type thingies. — JIP | Talk¨
is completely POV. "eBay had gotten away with..." implies that there is something wrong with eBay setting its own prices for its own services. The "virtual monopoly" line, likewise, is POV, and needs substantiation. The history is also incorrect; buyers do not pay "percentage fees" except in a small number of categories (if that). I suggest this paragraph be retooled if not removed; it's hardly a controvery (as I said above) when a company raises its prices and customers would rather pay less. I'd like someone neutral to come in and comment on this, since I'm clearly biased in favor of eBay. But I don't think things like "feeBay", "fleeBay", "pee-Air", and all the other nasty names a tiny minority of eBay users have come up with in their whine-fests are in the least bit encyclopedic. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 00:46, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone have a more up-to-date list of the five most expensive items sold on eBay? Surely Pope Benedict's old car would be on the new list, wouldn't it? -- Angr/ comhrá 06:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
The section has been renamed "some expensive items" due to the lack of referenecs on what the most expensive items are. Shawnc 02:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Recently, I heard a news report on Channel 4 in the Metro Detroit area. This news report talked about police badges being sold on EBAY and how they lead to falsified police imposters. Should we make an article about this controversy? -- SuperDude 03:19, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
I added two sub-sections under the heading "trivia" and felt like posting the fact that I did in the talk page because I am not sure if those facts that I added were true. I had read about them in an issue of Wired but cannot seem to locate the said issue. If someone were to checkup on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
-- Nelson 00:20, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
Why does this service, which is linked on this page, ask users for their eBay passwords? Why not just allow users to create an account for themselves? Is this site legitimate?
How do you get started? What if you don't have a credit card? Does anyone know any auctions online that are free? PAypal is that like the way to go if you don't have a credit card? I hope someone can help. -- Somaliafriend 18:57, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm uncomfortable with the lack of sources on these things; I'd like something more than "I heard somewhere that". -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 1 July 2005 03:27 (UTC)
I'm putting it here for now:
sars 13:08, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
Some one is currently offering there place in heaven on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4604067913 should we wait till its over before putting on here? also i can't find his full name.
I couldn't see why User:Jpgordon felt the need to "roll back trivial self-serving irrelevancy" over the anonymous addition of reflectoporn, so i've restored it (all be it now under a heading of it's own). It's something i'd never heard of which made me laugh when I read the article, and is clearly a true phenomenen if you try google, or visit reflectoporn.com etc. I can imagine if it gets deleted here, we'll end up with a seperate article entitled reflectoporn, which would then probably go through VfD and end up merged back here. Of course, we could try splitting it into a seperate article, and see if it survives... it was clearly a big enough subject to merit a newspaper article, so perhaps a user looking it up in an encyclopedia should expect to find it... UkPaolo 1 July 2005 07:49 (UTC)
Plugwash has moved this page (to the current place). Whilst it might seem better on some systems (no capatilisation), on mine there is a big gray rectangle before the title (presumably a infinitesimal space character that would stop the E from being capatilised - but is not installed on my computer). Something needs to be done about this. -- bjwebb 17:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
"A British man auctioned off an "air guitar" which included a shipping price of $8."
Was it definitely $8? Not £8, as he was British?
I once attempted to list my soul for sale on ebay and my auction was taken down. I recieved a very lengthy form letter from ebay that had obviously been prepared for this type of auction. The jist of it was "If a human soul does exist, it would be a part of the human body, and selling parts of the human body is against ebay policy. If a human soul does not exist, you have no actual item to sell which is prohibited." So I have serious doubts as to the allegation that "many people" have done this successfully. Can someone cite? Pacian 08:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)