marble
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posted on May 9, 2001 08:01:39 PM new
I remember when user ID "god" listed "The World" with a starting bid of $1,000,000. He claimed it only had 54,654,234,637,476,781 miles on it.
(I always wondered if that meant it was out of warranty?)
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ketzel
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posted on May 9, 2001 08:28:50 PM new
I remember when there were two sites at
the same time --
and some of my stuff was listed on Auctionweb
and some was on eBay ...
and I miss the lizards, the live pinks,
and Pierre ...
Ketzel
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dottie
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posted on May 10, 2001 11:06:49 AM new
I remember eBay when the first kidney went up on auction. LOL
- Dottie 
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reamond
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posted on May 10, 2001 11:08:36 AM new
Selling your first kidney is easy. Selling your second can be fatal.
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PaladinLvs
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posted on May 10, 2001 11:33:58 AM new
I remember doing an ebay "ended auction search and finding some auctions. And I remember bidding on those 3 Kids and getting 50 emails from their neighbors begging me to bid higher lol!
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godzillatemple
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posted on May 10, 2001 11:54:18 AM new
I remember eBay when it was a fun place for collectors to buy and sell interesting stuff at auction...
back before people started using eBay as an on-line storefront for mass quantities of retail goods;
back when you could actually BROWSE through a category over lunch without having to sift through 70 pages of retail junk that shouldn't be in the category in the first place;
back before "professional" sellers decided that it was OK to start charging "handling" fees on the misguided notion that selling at eBay was "just another form of mail order business;"
back when sellers were part of the eBay "community," the same as bidders, and didn't treat bidders as a faceless, fungible quantity ["who cares about customer service or repeat business? If a buyer isn't happy with how I do business, there are plenty more fish in the sea...."]; and
perhaps most importantly, back when eBay management actually cared about the individual members instead of just increasing profits in order to keep the shareholders happy.
Ayup, them were the days all right....
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
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PaladinLvs
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posted on May 10, 2001 12:08:52 PM new
ROCK ON GODZILLATEMPLE....doing the happy dance!
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dottie
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posted on May 10, 2001 01:14:21 PM new
I remember eBay when Mom & Pop entrepreneurs could link to their websites from their eBay listing pages in an effort to grow their own businesses before eBay became too greedy to share the TRAFFIC that Mom & Pop brought to it's venue.
Dottie 
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corrdogg
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posted on May 10, 2001 02:27:10 PM new
[ edited by corrdogg on Oct 25, 2001 08:17 PM ]
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lattefor2
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posted on May 10, 2001 02:28:01 PM new
Thanks everyone, what a wonderful thread. I am just going into my second year and I enjoyed every one of your memories. Way to go Dottie.
Reenie
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marble
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posted on May 10, 2001 02:59:44 PM new
I'm so happy you all enjoyed this thread! Does this mean I'm a regular now?
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godzillatemple
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posted on May 10, 2001 03:20:34 PM new
marble: Sure! And a half a cup of prune juice every day will keep you that way....
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
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noteye
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posted on May 10, 2001 03:21:43 PM new
I remember when there were 50,000 items listed.
I remember listing my first item, an old Vincent Price movie poster, that had gone unsold at a yard sale for $5.00 - it sold for $75.00 - and I didn't even have a picture, just a very long and detailed description.
I remember being the first in my home town to sell there - now, there are so many selling who knows who they are.
It seems like I remember there only being two boards with the ebay people sharing the old Q&A board with helpful sellers/buyers - and then the Cafe.
I remember listing everything I could get my hands on and selling every last item.
I remember scrounging for boxes/peanuts and other packing materials.
I remember having a death in the family and receiving a sympathy card from the staff of ebay.
I remember 'top of the hour' listing and the uproar over who was chosen to 'open' the 'new and improved' eBay with their listings.
I remember having a heated-name-calling-personal-info-revealing exchange with an unhappy customer on the Q&A and no one got suspended.
I remember being excited with 200mHz.
I remember the introduction of the 'weird' category.
I remember being proud I sold on eBay.
I remember Scott, Bevski, Zina, Charles & Pongo, to name a few.
I remember almost every customer being a 'return' customer.
I remember the first time I sold something for $1,000 and the first time I sold something for 99cents.
I remember 'wishing' there were more items to bid on.
I remember hearing the 'rumor' eBay was going 'public' and the people who helped build eBay would be rewarded.
noteye
My thoughts on this issue have gone 'Un-Surveyed' and may not be of importance to the P.T.B.
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raglady1
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posted on May 10, 2001 08:54:06 PM new
I remember Malcolm and Louise, two of the first customer service reps.
I remember when you could only list a certain number of items per hour, if you didn't get your listings in before ebay had their quota filled for that hour you had to wait until the next hour to try again
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taintboy
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posted on May 11, 2001 03:30:10 AM new
I remember when all relists were free.
I remember when "Cyberyenta" got suspended and how everyone was going to boycott eBay because of it.
I remember saying "HA HA" when "Cyberyenta" got suspended.
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zeenza
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posted on May 11, 2001 08:55:55 AM new
OK. You all went and made me very depressed.
I add all the above and then some.
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ttrove
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posted on May 11, 2001 01:30:56 PM new
I remember when Pierre answered his emails personally.
I remember the old "Auctionweb"
I remember when Skippy was hired to start helping Pierre as he was also working a job at the time as I remember.
I remember the 10 cent listings with free relistings (I even found a old invoice the other day showing the 10 cent listing fees)
I remember how excited I was to get to 10 feedbacks as the highest seller at the time only had around 80.
I remember when you could scan everything listed as there were that few items.
I remember when Pierre personally had to change the feedback to a new email address by hand.
I left Ebay for over 2 years due to the slowness it expericenced and since I have returned I miss the customer service I remember them once having.
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fonthill
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posted on May 11, 2001 07:21:14 PM new
Got a few more!
I remember ebay when you could list two items in the middle of the night and get two consecutive ebay auction numbers!
I remember ebay when some dealers would send items before you paid!
I remember ebay when you could remember everyone's name you bought from and sold to.
I remember ebay when sniping was considered unsportsmanlike and that you should at least declare your interest early in the auction so that others knew who would be playing at the end!
Finally, I remember when you had to explain what ebay was to other people because they had never heard of it before!
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fonthill
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posted on May 11, 2001 07:30:55 PM new
PS:
I also remember ebay when I could sell Nazi poker chips, leopard hats, crocodile purses and "Chanel-like" suits...
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sasoony
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posted on May 11, 2001 07:37:37 PM new
I remember when Clinton was the President of the United States. Ebay sales were good, the economy was strong, gas was cheap, and there was no energy "crises".
Now we have Bush. Americans are going to suffer.
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sasoony
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posted on May 11, 2001 08:00:22 PM new
The only humor I can find in the Bush tragedy is watching and listening to Republicans who voted for him,..."Ummmmm, I don't know what I was thinking". But thats California Republicans Bush has betrayed. Wait until the economy tanks. Bush's chance of getting re-elected are the same chance Bush Sr. had.
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ddicffe
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posted on May 11, 2001 08:29:51 PM new
sasoony:I don't know what your political rant had to do with this wonderful thread, so I will not go there.
I remember my first major purchase on ebay was an 11th century coptic bible on vellum with hand painted/drawn illustrations. Spent $700.01 to win it, and have been in love with it ever since!!
I remember my first sale, a first edition of C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" that had 11 bids and sold for $63.19 (not too bad for a quarter pick-up at a yard sale) .
I remember being the only one in my department at work using ebay. Now, it seems to be a prerequisite.
I also remember the HONESTY and INTEGERTY that went with the title "Ebay seller".
And lastly, I remember the letter I recieved from a seller with my purchase that thanked me for allowing them to be the 10th person to leave me feedback, thus earning me a star. With my book they sent me a $5.00 gift certificate to Barns and Noble.
I miss that stuff!!
Rick
BTW, nice to see you in here, godzilla!!
In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth.
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sasoony
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posted on May 11, 2001 08:48:00 PM new
>"I don't know what your political rant had to do with this wonderful thread, so I will not go there."<
I associate strong eBay sales with a strong economy. And I suggest you take a hard look at what the Bush administration is doing before you accuse anyone of political ranting. Anyone who doesn't sense that something is very wrong must be in a coma. Have a nice weekend.
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ddicffe
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posted on May 11, 2001 09:09:11 PM new
sasoony: This will be my only comment about "what Bush is doing": is your memory so short that you cannot remember Alan Greenspan raising interest rates 5 times in the first 2+ quarters in 2000? That has more to do with what is going on in our economy now then our newly elected president does. Greenspan knew that it takes approximately 1 to 1.5 quarters to show what interest rate hikes will do to any economy, yet he did this in the first two plus quarters last year. We are now reaping that seed he and Clinton so abley planted.
Rick
In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth.
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petertdavis
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posted on May 11, 2001 09:19:12 PM new
Gee Rick, when are you going to get over Clinton? What on earth made you bring him into a thread about "the good-old eBay days" anyway!?!?!?
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sasoony
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posted on May 11, 2001 09:34:37 PM new
LOL....In Rick's defense he didn't bring Clinton into this thread. (Although he did bring Greenspan in ?????)
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Lisa_B
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posted on May 11, 2001 10:13:13 PM new
LOL Dottie, you really took me down Memory Lane . . . .
I remember Cyberyenta's aptitude for rooting out the baddies . . . .
I remember when eBay had to get some traffic tickets from Exodus . . . or something like that . .. .so we on AOL could access the site . . . .
I remember Skippy's Lucite Boxer shorts . . . .
I remember when you had to leave a neutral for yourself if you wanted to respond to a negative . . . . or the twenty negatives one person might choose to leave for you because they're friends with someone who was mad . . . .
I remember when "Victorian necklace" really meant "Victorian necklace" . . . not "something I threw together last night with some beads I bought on eBay . . . "
I remember going to antique shows and hearing all the dealers gripe about how eBay was stealing their business. (My how the tide is turning . . . .)
I remember when ALL of my merchandise went on eBay.
I remember when I actually relisted stuff . . .
I remember a time when I didn't know who Jeff Buckley was . . . .
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DDICffe
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posted on May 12, 2001 03:47:31 AM new
I have a wedding to go to, so I will make this brief:
My favorite eBay memory is being relived right here:
WE ARE ALL BEHAVING LIKE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE A GOOD TIME OF IT!!!!!!!!!!
Rick
ps: Greenspan, you know, the guy who controlls the economy.
In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth.
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noshill
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posted on May 12, 2001 10:28:28 AM new
I remember eBay when it was Auctionweb.
I remember eBay when Skippy disclosed that the whole site was being run on 2 Pentium 200Mhz computers.
I remember when Skippy posted this snake picture on the Q&A board and scared the women.
I remember when eBay acted with sincerity and integtry.
I remember eBay before Meg. See above.
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frenchyy007
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posted on May 12, 2001 10:28:53 AM new
Boy I am glad I found this. I wondered if anyone was feeling like I am.. I have been off for awhile .JUST GOT A COMPUTER. I have been trying to relist on my auctions. Everything is sure messed up. I feel I can't put my items in the catagory I WANT.For instance I had some Miniature paintings, I wanted to put them in Collectable Miniatures. No such thing they wound up in Home and Garden Home Funishings, amomgst several pages full of wallpaper and candles.Which were from power sellers, AND DUTCH AUCTIONS. IF I WAS LUCKY I could find a small sellers item thrown in now and then. I never did come across the miniatures after looking threw 80 or more pages.If any of you are power sellers I am sorry. I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THERE WAS POWER SELLERS WHY COULDN'T THEY BE PUT IN SPECIAL SECTIONS WHERE PEOPLE COULD LOOK FOR THAT ITEM IF THEY WANTED SEVERAL DIFFERANT KINDS,AND SO THE REST OF US WOULD HAVE A CHANCE. THANKS (
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