poehitman
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posted on September 30, 2001 04:17:46 PM
For all of you who thought they have seen it all, this money wasting idea takes the cake.....
eBay has now come up with the "eBay Home Bidding Game". I just saw a commercial for it on FX and it has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. So all of you who want to know what all those fee increases are going towards instead of things like a stable site, customer service, better user programs.....this is what Meg has decided to pour eBay's money into.
Seems like she still has a bit of Mattel in her blood.
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gravid
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posted on September 30, 2001 04:33:58 PM
As if bids follow any logic or reason.
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dman3
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posted on September 30, 2001 04:39:17 PM
This is not new I was out to a garage sale just yesterday there was a ebay home bidding game out for sale at the sale.
the game has been out for some time now..
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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sparkafatty
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posted on September 30, 2001 04:42:02 PM
new, YES.. vERY NEW.........but it looks like it is also a bomb for onr by=uyer based on the early garbage sale report
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naru
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posted on September 30, 2001 06:30:23 PM
Let me guess:
If you buy the game,they come around every week and change the rules and take away the dice.
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wlaschin
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posted on September 30, 2001 07:29:51 PM
You do not buy the game, you pay ebay $10.00 a month for the honor of it sitting in your house and $5.00 each time you want to play (even if no one else shows up).
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kept2much-07
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posted on September 30, 2001 08:18:30 PM
What's next? A Meg doll?
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wbbell
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posted on September 30, 2001 08:23:45 PM
Hasbro will sell the Meg doll.
The Auction Guild will sell the pins and the voodoo juju!
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kept2much-07
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posted on September 30, 2001 08:42:06 PM
Naru your user name reminds me of my childhood. When I was a kid I had a dog named Naru. When Hasbro makes Meg they will have to give her the dog Naru as her first friend(?).
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naru
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posted on September 30, 2001 10:14:19 PM
kept2much
Named myself Naru because when I first found this board I kept thinking NARU, what on earth is NARU and why are people so upset about it? The dim bulb finally flickered on.
I must confess every once in a while feeling sorry that Meg gets kicked around so much.
However it doesn't take very long for eBay to institute boneheaded policy # 8765 before the feeling goes away.
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dc9a320
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posted on October 1, 2001 01:13:39 PM
I laughed so hard when I saw the commercial. It looks like they want to hook^H^H^H^Hinterest kids in eBay, eBay awaiting the day they become actual bidders.
Jest Questions:
- Will the "board" game make kids be bored of eBay before they ever get to bidding?
- Will the game incorporate concepts like "snipe" and "deadbeat?"
- Would flooding the "market" with lots of identical copies of cheesy products be considered a good thing or a bad thing in the game?
- Though eBay obviously wouldn't, how would you incorporate the concept of a system crash (partial or full) or "input error" message into a game?
- Will those brought up on the game treat all of eBay as a game?
- What's next? "eBay: the Movie" ????
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
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computerboy
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posted on October 1, 2001 01:34:02 PM
I wonder if there are little game pieces that look like Meg and Pierre?
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cougarls88
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posted on October 1, 2001 02:52:50 PM
"Though eBay obviously wouldn't, how would you incorporate the concept of a system crash (partial or full) or "input error" message into a game? "
That one's easy--dead batteries!
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