hair2dye4
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posted on November 12, 2002 12:54:15 PM
Ok I took a break and went shopping on ebay as soon as I placed a bid I got a Hallmark pop up ad to win an ebay shopping spree! What's up any ideas? I don't want junk mail so I passed but is it to add more money for ebay and won't it make buyers upset? curious...
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jayk1998
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posted on November 12, 2002 01:32:56 PM
I work for an internet company and surprisingly, our advertisers want pop-up ads. You'd think that wouldn't be the case, since most internet users hate them.
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geppeta
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posted on November 12, 2002 05:28:50 PM
Is this the latest we can expect from ebay? Anyone else seen these? Good grief....
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gina50
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posted on November 12, 2002 06:32:49 PM
Yes ~ I complained about this on another thread here last week that was talking about ebay being slow. Well, no wonder !
About 2 weeks ago I started getting them. You can always tell when they're coming because whatever page you are trying to display doesn't and comes to almost a complete stop and then that ebay page pop up shows up!
What really ticks me off is the ebay page that it takes me to is not even anything I would have interest in.
Also, when you are trying to bid on something and that happens, ouch !
That's a great way for ebay to drive away buyers & sellers don't you think
NOT gina50 on ebay
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tooltimes
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posted on November 12, 2002 07:37:15 PM
There was a thread here about a month or two ago when ebay announced they would start using popups on their site.
I found it on the old AW message center search page
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/3527568.htm
[ edited by tooltimes on Nov 12, 2002 07:44 PM ]
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ohmslucy
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posted on November 12, 2002 09:19:07 PM
I got a pop-up this evening when I placed a bid. Very annoying... Maybe I'll take a look at the eBay chat boards later on and see how other folks feel.
Here's how I handle this nonsense...
Junk mail from the PO goes in the trash bin for recycling - never gets read.
Junk email gets deleted without opening.
Pop-ups get closed immediately without reading. Website doesn't get accessed again.
Anything with geocities in the name doesn't even get looked at.
JMHO... to which I'm entitled...
Me
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tooltimes
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posted on November 12, 2002 09:59:19 PM
I open snail mail that is junk mail and dig out the free reply postage envelope and place all the junk that doesn't have my name on it that envelope and mail it back to the sender. If enough people did that that junk mail of that nature would all but stop.
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throughhiker
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posted on November 13, 2002 03:55:52 AM
ohmslucy, RIGHT ON! I agree whith all your points.
I can't believe Ebay is stooping to this low life tactic. What gets me is this. Does anybody know anyone who buys from a telemarketer or junk mail or popups? But somebody must or they wouldn't go to the trouble and espense.
If one has fast access, popups are an agravation, but with dial-up popups are maddening. As gina50 noted, when a popup is coming in, it brings everything to a hault and popups typically take a long time to download because the add companys what us to see all those nice graphics that have not been compressed for the web because they could care less. My guess is that most add programers and big companys have had fast access for so long now that they don't remember the pain when a large file is downloading on dial-up. I believe that about 75% still use dial-up. Unfortuneatly, due to my situation, I am relegated to dial-up so I spend a lot of time cursing popups.
If popups happen with every bid, I predict some folks will stop bidding. Add sales tax and they will get in the car and go to town.
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tooltimes
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posted on November 13, 2002 06:59:22 AM
I know a few people that are very happy to see both ebay and AOL using the popup ads. The popup killer software makers. The new generation of popups are often defeating the old popup killer software and new software/updates are often needed to retain sanity.
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nharmon
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posted on November 13, 2002 07:29:52 AM
I hate those stupid pop up ads. I bid on some tennis shoes for my daughter just now on Ebay and a Hallmark pop up appeared. I do not like them- ugh!
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pat1959
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posted on November 13, 2002 09:46:44 AM
Here's a pop-up stopper that works for me--and it's FREE! Other versions, from this company can be purchased, but this one works fine.
Now if you like to snipe, as I do once in awhile, you have to turn the 'stopper' off or the pop-up snipe-window will not work.
https://www.panicware.com/
Sorry, don't know how to make it a clickable link...
Pat
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trai
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posted on November 13, 2002 10:59:42 AM
https://www.panicware.com/
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