posted on September 12, 2000 04:34:40 PM new
Has anyone ever used HumanClick? Wouldn't this service be a work around for publishing phone #s, while still maintaining a level of customer service and anonymity?
posted on September 16, 2000 11:18:57 AM new
<h3><font color=green><samp>In response to the crummy way Ebay has been treating honest sellers lately, I propose a peaceful protest.
<P>We should pick a day or a week and NOT list at all. Wouldnt this hit Ebay in the wallet?
<P>Power to the people! No justice no peace! hell no, we wont go etc.,etc.,etc.
Im gonna go check out yahoo auctions...</h3></font></samp>
posted on September 18, 2000 02:34:23 PM new
Wow, I forgot ebay had my phone number and never imagined they would give this out. Thanks to this thread I've changed the required phone number field to the modem line. I would rather have someone not bid than call me up with questions. Questions can be addressed much better in an email anyway where an exchange of phone numbers can be arranged if need be. Someone could easily consume a half an hour on the line asking questions about a $2.00 item.
Let the seller decide if offering phone contact would improve his/her business. If someone doesn't want to bid on an item by a seller with no phone number but massive positive feedback let the seller suffer what ever loss results and leave it at that.
posted on September 18, 2000 06:02:42 PM new
Apparently ebay forgets there are people from other countries who shop on the site. Do they honestly expect those people to drop a big chunk of change just to say hi to a seller?
I know the only reason I'd be willing to pay the local rates for an international call is if there was a problem that couldn't be resolved via email.
If this has been discussed already, my apologies. My eyes glazed over at the number of pages I would have to read to get caught up again.
posted on September 18, 2000 08:34:08 PM new
Hmmm...
First to the people who claim "powersellers dangle themselves about". Ah baloney. All it means is they sell more, bout it. Its not like they say, "here's $1000 go listing" when others cant. It means little. To eBay bidders, they "trust" it a bit more... If ots there, not there, makes no difference to us really. I liked the free Tshirt! What a PERK!
Now what I DID say had the nay-sayers READ is that we've had some 20,000 eBay transactions completed with a 95% payout rate. Been there 3 years now. We get 5-6 phone calls a week of people wanting to pay by credit card. We sell at Amazon too, Onsale too, First Auction, dealdeal.com and others too. Still a whoppin' 5-6 phone calls a week.
People dont seem to get it... YOUR INFORMATION HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD SO MANY TIMES YOUD GET SICK JUST LOOKING AT IT.
Most states DEPT. OF MOTOR VEHICLES sell you and your information. Right now at ebay one can go in and request someones phone number. I think the phone number there should be mandatory. If any seller or buyer ends up calling a phone number that has no association with the individual (ie a fake number entered) should immiediately either be A. Account killed or B. Better yet, see if they can be "consumer scammed" into fraud and fix their wagon so to speak.
Consumers are the ones on the defense here. They are the ones who's money gets taken. Sure, vendors get whacked at times too but the consumers are what matters, w/o them, can have all the powersellers you like but aint a person buying nuthin.
So I'll focus it a bit better. We'd have no issue at all with eBay posting the phone number of anyone SELLING at the site. Again, I dont see how it curbs fraud but if it does then we are all for it. If fraud continues to escalate on the web, and as we all know? the FTC recently stated 48% of fraud on the web is happening at auctions (Can we all guess which ones?, Hint: Its not Onsale or First Auction or dealdeal.com etc) then at some point in time it'll all be mute as the site will either be gone, legislated into history perhaps or nobody will go there to buy and thus nobody there selling.
ANYTHING ebay can do to remove bad buyers and bad sellers is a good thing for the good people.
Signed: WhyNot!
posted on September 19, 2000 06:03:40 AM new
Victoria said: I would have posted how bad an idea I personally think this is, but then one of the posters, who just love everything EBAY does, would come and tell me how wrong I am, and how good this is for EBAY.
Then Whynot said: ANYTHING ebay can do to remove bad buyers and bad sellers is a good thing for the good people. Signed: WhyNot
My goodness Victoria! How did you predict that?
Hey Whynot: the ends justify the means? I don't think so. My personal data has been spread around a lot - BUT I don't have to voluntarily be part of a process that will make it easier for marketing weasels or loonies to find it. I am a casual buyer/seller and I don't need unnecessary phone calls.
