Tuesday, September 02, 2008

A suggestion for the Blog-o-sphere

Simply put.
Post enough blogs about eBays "Paypal only" mistake, and maybe they'll notice???
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Here today...R.I.P 8/20/08
Gone tomorrow.
So much for the new young leadership at eBay. May they find employment elsewhere after the fall.

An excellent blog post about eBay

Here's an excellent blog post about greedBay's wunderful new Paypal only policy and fixed shipping costs.

http://whatstickingmeofftoday.blogspot.com/

California Legislature Sets New Record, Public Underwhelmed!!!!

Wow,

Seems a majority Democratic party state legislature can't get a workable budget in place for the 10th largest economy in the WORLD!!! See left wing liberal L.A. Times article here . Two quotes from that L.A Times article sum up the majority Democrat viewpoint rather succinctly:

"The biggest obstacle to the lawmaking ambitions of majority Democrats this year was simple: No money to spend.

"How can you do anything without money?" asked Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Montebello)."

Obviously these lame Democrats can do NOTHING without spending our hard earned money on pet projects. A lesson for those guys- Learn to spend LESS money!

The lesson for us voters is........ STOP ELECTING DEMOCRATS TO STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICE!!!

Beginning of the end for eBay

Dateline: Aug 20th 2008, a date that will live in online auction history... eBay, the giant almost monopoly of online auctions has decided that they really don't want to be an online auctioneer anymore. They really, really, want to be Amazon.com junior. No more auctions. Well not at first, just find clever ways of dissuading any small sellers from selling by forcing Paypal only for payments, toss in a 3-21 (Paypal discretionary fund hold), and significantly higher final value fees, and ...ta daaa.... no more small time sellers. It really is that simple. So starting in Oct 2008 they will gradually tighten the Paypal only noose until there are only a few stalwart small sellers who haven't figured out other ways to sell and giant mega sellers who have feedback ratings in the 10000+ range. Meanwhile the rest of us will go to craigslist.org (which unfortunately is 25% owned by evilBay) or ebid.net or epier.com

Thursday, August 21, 2008

eBay snubs both buyers and sellers

Seem good ol eBay (pay and obey), headed by Lorrie Norington has decided to further shoot themselves in the foot by making sweeping changes to their auction site. For those who distrust (and rightfully so) PayPal. eBay is making PayPal one of the mandatory electronic payment option required for listing compliance.

This in itself is a questionable move.

They go on to state that payment by NON ELECTRONIC means will be prohibited. In other words, money orders and paper checks will not be allowed. along with good old CASH!!! eBay is proving to be the true "Big Brother" advocating a completely cashless online experience. Interesting that they tried the scheme first in Great Britain (home of George Orwell).

Say goodbye to cash, hello to the "one world" electronic currency. The dollar need not trade hands physically to purchase goodies on eBay. Maybe in their view the dollar will dissappear in favor of some "unified" world currency. Perhaps eBay, a San Jose, CA based company feels that ultra liberal presidential Democrat Party candidate Barak Obama will will in November and further push the USA into the pit of "one world-ism". Lets hope and pray (and VOTE) that this does not happen.

Perhaps it is time to boycott eBay....again