sun818
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posted on May 4, 2002 10:38:18 PM
[ edited by sun818 on May 6, 2002 02:41 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on May 4, 2002 10:51:28 PM
>>While browsing through some items on eBay, I noticed some auctions have a gallery image of bikini models,... Obviously targeted towards people that like women.<<
Like it or not, there are people out there who like women.......
>> Does sex sell?<<
I get it.... you're kidding, right?
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kiara
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posted on May 4, 2002 11:27:54 PM
Does sex sell?
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alwaysbroke
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posted on May 5, 2002 04:48:06 AM
Anything that makes an imprint in your memory will sell.
lurking is not an option
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kahml
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posted on May 5, 2002 05:15:08 AM
So you "hijacked" this person's image into this forum for exactly >what< purpose?
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twinsoft
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posted on May 5, 2002 08:46:41 AM
I don't know what you're selling, but somehow my hand is inexplicably reaching for my wallet....
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rgrem
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posted on May 5, 2002 08:59:19 AM
I wish we could so an ebay search for "scantily-clad female gallery pix." They are really hard to find.
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Libra63
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:11:42 AM
NO According to ebay when you auction any undergarments you cannot use live models. If the picture of your item is imprinted on the original package, it can be shown. This is the statement you get when launching those auctions and it is imprinted in red. Time to send that to safe harbor. Your children might be looking at those. Remember that is my opinion.....and I am not a prude....just a mom...
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sulyn1950
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:12:29 AM
"Obviously targeted towards people that like women. And the seller is not selling bikinis... Is this an innocent attention getter? Is it exploiting women? Does sex sell? Would you report the seller?"
What would you report him to eBay for???
Many many years ago me and hubby were Christmas shopping. He hated going with me, but I always insisted.
I'm over looking at some stuff and I turned around to find my hubby (along with quite a crowd) around the perfume counter.
I walk over and this very attractive woman wearing a very low cut blouse had the entire group of men asking to see perfume located on the bottom shelf. It also seem that all the really expensive perfumes just happened to be located on this bottom shelf. 
These men (including mine) had purchased extremely expensive perfume for just about every female on their shopping list and never realized they had been "had"! 
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dman3
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:15:16 AM
What Safeharbor there is no more safe habor they have closed all suport email addresses down.
no more Ebay cops so to speak only support they offer is online.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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sulyn1950
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:22:43 AM
Oops! Didn't see Libra63's reason for reporting.....
Of course, I wouldn't let my "children" browse ebay unattended...learned the hard way with my visiting 12yoa niece and a "hot" underwear auction...
She wondered why I was fooling with what I was selling when I could sell fancy undies for a lot more! I had a lot of explaining to my sis about why her pre-teen daughter was compulsing about underwear when she came to retrieve her.
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wwtraders1
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:36:59 AM
MOM do you keep your children from the beach and swiming pools to? 
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(Quote from your Post)Libra63
NO According to ebay when you auction any undergarments you cannot use live models. If the picture of your item is imprinted on the original package, it can be shown. This is the statement you get when launching those auctions and it is imprinted in red. Time to send that to safe harbor. Your children might be looking at those. Remember that is my opinion.....and I am not a prude....just a mom...
[ edited by wwtraders1 on May 5, 2002 09:39 AM ]
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wwtraders1
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:41:00 AM
Very nice picture, a pick me up along with my morning coffee.
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Libra63
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:54:53 AM
I expect that at a Beach and even at swimming pools but not on eBay where their are rules.....
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wwtraders1
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:04:48 AM
This is a qoute from the top of the eBay reg. form. why do parents let their children
lurk on eBay any way.
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Welcome! Let's begin.
Please enter your contact information below. All required fields have an asterisk," * ".
Note: You must be at least 18 years old to register on eBay.
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kiara
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:06:14 AM
It looks like a bikini, not underwear. I'm not certain what widget the seller is selling either as I haven't checked. Maybe he is selling boring stuff and needs the hits?
Has anyone watched TV lately? Lots of ads show much more than this and they aren't selling underwear or bikinis either.
Where I live, in the summer months there are women that walk into my shop dressed like this and there are children in the store. So far never a problem. It's just life.
[ edited by kiara on May 5, 2002 10:07 AM ]
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Libra63
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:07:12 AM
Register. Not browse...
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Helenjw
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:18:50 AM
Ashcroft is probably looking for a drape, right now! HaHaHa!
Anybody that reports this to "safeharbor" is some kind of nut.
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kiara
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:58:49 AM
Okay, I found it. He is selling an informational CD. One part is Receive pictures and movies of the hottest women in the world in swimsuits.
I don't see anything that should be reported.
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NearTheSea
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posted on May 5, 2002 10:59:41 AM
It is a bikini, so. I guess you can report it, and I don't know what you'll get in response
The person is selling that 'CD that eBay wants banned!'or whatever title they use and I guess 24 bidders in a dutch auction could have been 'lured' in by a woman in a bikini.. whatever LOL
[email protected]
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yellowstone
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:00:35 PM
Where I live, in the summer months there are women that walk into my shop dressed like this
If women dressed like this are walking into your shop, I would like to know where your shop is, kiara?
Does sex sell?
sun818, You bet sex sells. Have you noticed that alot of ad banners on the internet have a pic of a beautiful woman? Especially the ads for digital cameras. They are suggesting I suppose that if you purchase their camera you can then go out and photograph beautiful women just like the one in their ad.
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kiara
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posted on May 5, 2002 09:43:42 PM
My shop is just a block or so from the beach and it is quite common here to see women walking around in bikinis. And people that are in the shop with their kids never seem bothered by it.
We also get tourists from Europe and some of the women take their shirts off to try on t-shirts and some are bra-less. When one thinks of all the bad things that go on in this world I find it amazing that a pic of an attractive female in a bikini is something for people to question.
With all the info on the CD this seller is offering, he is probably just using a selling strategy that works best.
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outoftheblue
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posted on May 6, 2002 12:41:51 AM
It's obvious to me that the picture came from the CD that the person is selling. Nothing wrong with that.
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tomwiii
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posted on May 6, 2002 04:04:35 AM
Report WHAT???
Hooter spamming?
Geeeeesh.....
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kiddo2
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posted on May 6, 2002 04:30:23 AM
E GAWD! EBAY NETCOPS! They are everywhere! Everywhere I tell you! I thought it was not cool to be a stool pidgeon?? Seems like in school it was the brown nose teachers pets that were the tattletales...ABOUT EVERYTHING, no matter how rediculous like this post! At least they got something out of it like attention from the teacher cause no one else liked them..Hee Hee, did they all grow up to be Ebay netcops??
kiddo2
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sun818
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posted on May 6, 2002 11:32:12 AM
I see infractions to eBay rules all the time. Except for spam listing thirty items at once, I could care less!
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trai
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posted on May 6, 2002 11:56:17 AM
If this is all one has to worry about, then I would think life is pretty good!
[ edited by trai on May 6, 2002 11:57 AM ]
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pelorus
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posted on May 6, 2002 02:05:36 PM
If you find any more examples of this egregious practice, please post them as well.
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tomwiii
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posted on May 6, 2002 04:12:19 PM
Hey!!!
Where da tatas go? 
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