mballai
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posted on September 26, 2000 07:48:25 PM
I had an auction close and discovered that the bidder had a dead email address. I waited a couple of days just to be sure I'd never get through or hear from them before reporting this one to Safeharbor. Sure enough they NARU'd this one in about a day. I tried the second high bidder to no result.
Now you would think that with the millions of dollars in technology, eBay could figure that this one doesn't need a NPB alert and that it is beyond stupid. Nope! Got to send an email to a dead email address and wait ten days before collecting.
They must have given the dog medicine to the staff. Brain waves are truly absent. Call the coroner.
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ecom
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posted on September 26, 2000 07:57:01 PM
That's how Meg and Pierre keep the incomplete auction percentages at such a low level.
By increasing the number of steps and inserting 10 days between them, alot of people don't bother asking for a refund.
Its like coupons. How many people actually follow through with all the steps required to redeem them?
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amalgamated2000
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posted on September 26, 2000 07:58:18 PM
If the buyer and seller mutually agree to terminate the transaction, you are not required to wait.
In situations like this, I send the buyer an email saying that since they are NARU'd I will assume that they wish to terminate the transaction unless they respond immediately and tell me otherwise.
When the email is bounced back (or if they fail to respond if their email is working) I take that as an agreement to terminate the transaction and report it as such. The credit is granted immediately.
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macandjan
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:06:14 PM
One day when he was about 13 Al invented sex.
Sadly he was in no position yet to have it classified.
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Peachy77
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:09:32 PM
ROFL... the title of this thread deserves an award! 
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:15:52 PM
No, Al Gore took the initiative in creating ebay.
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Borillar
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:33:31 PM
>>sigh!<< It's really just too bad that when bright communications engineers want to build something, say, like the Internet, they actually need a politician as a sponsor in Congress. That politician builds the oversight, obtains the funds, clears the way of regulations impeding progress, and so forth. In other words, they need a politician to go to bat for them in Washington.
A poor choice of words on Al Gore's part has led to the laughable notion that he created the Internet single-handedly! He shold have clarified his statement to reveal that he was the politiician with enough vision to sponsor and work like hell to get the Internet through congress.
Well, another laugh, another day.
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bobbysoxer
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:36:33 PM
Is it true that George Junior invented PayPal?
not bobbysoxer on eBay
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misslany
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posted on September 26, 2000 08:50:23 PM
Bobbysoxer - probably not. I don't think George Jr. can even pronounce "Paypal".
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mballai
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posted on September 26, 2000 09:24:19 PM
At least Gee Dubya wouldn't pull the low life tactics of PayPal, but All Gore likes to say he would do anything...but mean anything for money...more like PayPal.
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macandjan
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posted on September 26, 2000 09:26:40 PM
The reason it is so funny is that it really is a window into how people think in Washington. Some menials (the actual creative people) developed an idea for their masters (companies and universities) and my aides and writers assembled a bill to facilitate it which after being briefed on I introduced in session. I'm the guy in front of the camera - it's mine. If they did not take credit for what others do ugly reality would intrude. None of these politicians really make anything but war and taxes.
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cathammer
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posted on September 26, 2000 10:25:51 PM
Now I'm confused. I thought Al and Tipper were the inspirations for the Pierre and Meg characters.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
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amalgamated2000
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posted on September 26, 2000 10:31:55 PM
On a side note, for those who are actually interested in Al Gore's purported claims regarding the internet, here's a quote from Vint Cerf, the man whom most people credit with actually "creating" the internet:
"Before this becomes a tempest in a teapot, it is fact that while
a senator, VP Gore was instrumental in legislation that followed
the NSFNET to create what was called the High Performance Computing
and Communication initiative (HPCC/NREN) which later led to the Next
Generation Internet program. I don't know that the quote shown is accurate,
but it is fair to say that VP Gore has been a very strong proponent
of the development and use of Internet-based technologies for at
least 12 years, and continues to be a strong advocate to this day.
I'm grateful for his support and that of the administration in the
development and use of Internet.
Vint"
Just thought some might find that interesting.
Also, my favorite factoid about Vint Cerf is that what he actually created was the Internet Protocol, known as IP. Cerf was the first propenent of including internet communications in a variety of "appliances" - not just "computers", but everything from refrigerators to automobiles. The motto for this initiative, which Cerf had emblazoned on a T-shirt:
"IP in Everything."
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bobbysoxer
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posted on September 26, 2000 10:41:01 PM
misslany
LOL!!!!
I bet "Junior" can pronounce draftdodger!
not bobbysoxer on eBay
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on September 26, 2000 10:55:17 PM
We can all be sure Al Gore, along with Tipper, invented censorship.
Al Gore, hope Hollywood loves ya!!
:\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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mballai
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posted on September 27, 2000 08:13:39 AM
Whether All Gore took the initiative or not doesn't impress me. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I think we'll see initiative number two is to tax the hell out of the Internet, as taxing is what Democrats are genetically predisposed to do.
I forgot to mention that this was more than eight years ago so maybe he used up his second high-tech initiative when he somehow lost all those emails kept from the eyes of the special prosecutor.
[ edited by mballai on Sep 27, 2000 10:35 AM ]
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SEABHS
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posted on September 27, 2000 10:23:03 AM
yee haaaa I am with you!!!
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glassperson
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posted on September 27, 2000 06:46:47 PM
Check Doonesbury today or yesterday about what George W. mis-said yesterday or today! Hilarious: "Higher education is not my first priority". Obvious! Texas U.- want to rebuttal? And I am an independent!
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Borillar
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posted on September 28, 2000 12:16:29 AM
mballai: you said, " . . . as taxing is what Democrats are genetically predisposed to do.
Then what do you have to say about the fact that Republicans have historically raised taxes twice as high as Democrats ever have? Check your facts and you'll see that people have taken the time to verifiy this Republican rumor and discovered the horrors that the republicans turn out to be twice as bad.
I am not a Democrat, but I **HATE** liars on both sides of the isle!
Go! Ralph Nader, Go!
"A vote for either the Democrats or the Republicans is the only way you can be able to throw away your vote."
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kellyb1
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posted on September 28, 2000 12:24:49 AM
Moderators,
it seems this thread is wayyy off the topic, and has become a thread on political opinions, not issues relating to ebay. Though many are funny, I think this isn't place for it, with so many topics to go through.
Thanks,
Kelly
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misslany
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posted on September 28, 2000 12:25:46 AM
bobbysoxer - LOL - I'm sure Junior pronounces that one just fine, having had the help of some of "daddy's" people.
Go Al!!
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MichelleG
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posted on September 28, 2000 12:30:48 AM
Everyone,
I'm inclined to agree with Kelly. This thread may have started eBay related but has derailed into something else entirely so I am locking it. If anyone would like to continue this political discussion, please start a thread in the Round Table.
MichelleG
Moderator
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