posted on March 3, 2001 07:26:04 AM
For 2 years AW has been so generous by allowing me to host my pictures on eBay auctions.
AW, eBay, & I have come a long way in the past two years. AuctionWatch has been my backbone and for the most part & a very reliable one. Image hosting is detrimental for success on eBay, without AW, I would still been plugging away at a 9 to 5.
I want to thank the staff for all of the long hours, commitment, and help. You have my sincerest gratitude for everything and I feel it is just for AW to now require funds for patrons to take advantage of the services offered. I know it will only improve with time as it has in the past.
It's about time AW started charging!!
I always wondered if the ads on AW's pages really paid for everything...
However, It was extremely RUDE not to inform me about this complete change of usage, I stumbled on to this information and I wonder why this change was introduced in the manner it was... Geez... Was every current employee at AW previously a used car salesman in a bad neighborhood? What gives? Why not a notice or a hint, WHY WASN'T AuctionWatch FORTHCOMING/UP FRONT/INFORMING...HONEST?
My hat's off to the staff on AW's payroll who agree with me - I know some employee's (personally) and even from the inside they feel this was a crappie way to do business and are embarrassed, I would be too.
I currently have several pictures loaded which I intended to use later this month... I guess I have to bust my ass or pay out of it - huh?
An informing eMail would have been appropriate and respectable, after all, you send me one every month anyway... I could have excepted paying for the image hosting (which is the only thing I use) BUT- AW's top poopyheads apparently got VERY greedy with the fee concept... EVERYBODY AGREES WITH ME ON THAT POINT!
I plan to make plenty of income through hard work and dedication on eBay, and I would gladly pay a reasonable fee for AW's services, but I am so offended by AW's complete lack of tact and absence of respect! I couldn't feel more betrayed and the confidence I once had in AW is now abandoned because of the blatant lack of integrity and breech of commitment of members like myself who have been treated so badly & so quickly.
This short notice was so unanticipated, and the greedy final auction fee's is so horrible.
MODERATOR:
Please make sure your CEO reads this - print it out and tape it on his monitor before you lock this thread OKAY?
SHAME on AW - I thought there was far more ethical standards & you guys could have been far more personable to the individuals who have faithfully patronized your service. The majority would stick around and contribute, but you pushed this way too far with the GREED.
I intend to pay for image hosting service, but not through AW as long as I have to pay anything other than a set fee regardless of the final price.
