posted on February 24, 2004 11:09:48 PM
Many I am sure were signed up with the total intent of thinking they could SELL these names. E bay will NOT purge them from the system and release them for NEW people to use. Most were done in 98 and 99. Get real e bay. release them. Most I found NEVER did ANY e bay buying OR selling......Really NEAT names. I see a pattern of Military type names as if the were out to register EVERYONE with NO intent to do anything with it except bar others from having it..... those are NOT active members they are just I.D's.....just do a search and see how many have never done anything OR had a few deals from years ago and NEVER did anything again. EVEN the phone Company re releases Phone numbers after a period of time.
1.Buyers, NEED to !. BEFORE Bidding. Thank you.
2.NPB's (buyers?) have No rights,, Posting. NEED to be BLOCKED by e bay.(But they are NOT!!!!) Upon final filing of NPB.
3.Naru's . Good riddance after 3,,,, DIFFERENT Sellers file NPB's. Negs do 0 to NARU. filing for PARTIAL fees DOES.
4.Current buyers Geographical location i.e. STATE or ZIP or CITY need be known. California cool Shades.
5.E bay need to ENHANCE F/B System. A ing period. Like 20 days of HOOPS on NPB's. Many give up. Works! 4 e bay. They keep K's of $'s. [] trade makes even MORE $..
posted on February 24, 2004 11:16:41 PM
Good idea, Jack! I didn't know about the names.
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posted on February 24, 2004 11:25:26 PM
I agree Jack, eBay should free up the millions of unused "good" names.
I signed up in Feb. 1999 & someone already had mcjane so I used my email address, was on webtv back then.
The original mcjane had 2 negs & nothing else & had not used her account for probably over a year.
One of my buyers left FB for me by mistake under her name so I emailed eBay about the confusion and asked if I could have the user ID mcjane since she wasn't using it. They changed her user ID to her email address & then gave it to me.
posted on February 24, 2004 11:48:52 PM
I just went to Powersellers and said basically the samething...The ONLY way anything on e bay will change is people knocking on their door.....I Pound!!!!!!! hahahaha........Sometimes,,,,,,they even listen.....Change is made by NUMBERS. The Numbers grew during Vietnam and we left and 1000's of lives were spared..Voices make a difference. Those who do Nothing get just that,,,,,,,,,Even a CAT Meows for food......Otherwise,,,,Gee, Everything must be just hunky dory. MEOW!!!!!!! Now THAT I can hear,,,,,
1.Buyers, NEED to !. BEFORE Bidding. Thank you.
2.NPB's (buyers?) have No rights,, Posting. NEED to be BLOCKED by e bay.(But they are NOT!!!!) Upon final filing of NPB.
3.Naru's . Good riddance after 3,,,, DIFFERENT Sellers file NPB's. Negs do 0 to NARU. filing for PARTIAL fees DOES.
4.Current buyers Geographical location i.e. STATE or ZIP or CITY need be known. California cool Shades.
5.E bay need to ENHANCE F/B System. A ing period. Like 20 days of HOOPS on NPB's. Many give up. Works! 4 e bay. They keep K's of $'s. [] trade makes even MORE $..
posted on February 25, 2004 12:04:42 AM
The ebay brochure that fluffy picked up at the show says there are about 86 million registered users. Then Ace quoted that according to a recent Auctionbytes article that there are 31.1 million active users. Unfortunately he didn't back up his info with a link and I can't find it on their site.
If it's true, that would mean that there are perhaps 50 million IDs that would be up for grabs. If ebay sent out "Use it or lose it" notifications to all of those idle accounts lots of the e-mails would bounce and some users just wouldn't care, either because they left ebay or have other accounts they're using. That leaves quite a few that would have to start buying or selling. Since buying is much easier, it would generate more activity on the site for awhile, even if they only had to buy one item to reactivate their account.
OTOH, it would look bad for ebay if their user base dropped by millions within a few months.
posted on February 25, 2004 04:15:42 AM
If a user can change his id in 30 days then the one they had is idle. Right? I never could understand why the user names didn't go back into the data base either. It seems like wasted space. Can a user that hasn't used his user ID in 5 years come back and use it again right away?
posted on February 25, 2004 04:24:59 AM
I wonder how they would do that? It could be problematic. If you are a casual buyer, let's say only at Christmas time and an arbitrary time of say six months was set, you would lose your ID. I have two IDs, one I seldom use, probably haven't used it in a couple of years, but would not want to lose it. Sometimes I go three or four months without buying or selling. I'd like to know I could take a year off and be able to come back to my Ebay account.
posted on February 25, 2004 04:29:02 AM
Great thread Jack and I agree that something SHOULD be done about it; recently I thought about opening a new ebay account just for buying as my current account is used for buying and selling.
I went to the 'search by bidder" and must have tried at least 100 different names and they were ALL taken; even a few that I thought no way someone would have thought of that name....wrong....taken.
The only possible names I could think of that were usable were 'gobbledegoop' jumble of letters and numbers that made no sense at all!
So I agree ebay DOES need to purge out all those user names that have never had ANY activity or not had any activity for a couple years at least!
I will send email to ebay about this; maybe if enough people do it will help; but as someone stated earlier it won't look good when ebay suddenly 'drops' a couple million uers!
posted on February 25, 2004 04:43:56 AM
The WEIRDEST THING! lorettab1 is NOT my name on ebay; and after I posted my message awhile ago I thought maybe THAT would be a good name to use on ebay....went and did a 'seller search' and yup, lorettab1 name DID come up....Registered in Jan '01, in AUSTRAILIA, NO feedback, no activity at all! Darn I coulda used that name!
posted on February 25, 2004 04:56:04 AM
Unfortunately, as soon as eBay started bragging publicly about how many registered users it had, that doomed any future attempt at cleanup.
Consider: it's only going to get worse over time. People, sadly, pass on to the world beyond. And then there are those people who had one "bad" experience, like my mother, who will never use eBay again. If you think you might want a particular username in the future and no one's got it, reserve it now. That's all I can say. Sorry, Jack.
posted on February 25, 2004 10:36:34 AM
In our Akron Ohio newspaper today, there is an article in the biz section inre eBay University coming to Cleveland soon ... and a "company spokesman Hani Durzy" gave input,
"At any given time, there are 20 million items for sale on eBay.com. Those goods totaled $23.8 billion in 2003 -- $894 of which was sold every second in the fourth quarter.
The auction site also has 95 million registered users in 28 countries. Durzy said that goes a long way toward explaining the popularity of eBay University. The seminar, which is taught by eBay employees and consultants, has grown every year since its birth in 2000."
... I guess what I'm trying to say, is the number of registered users, was reportedly 95 million, as of today's printed article.
posted on February 25, 2004 10:54:26 AM
Since most of us suspect the number is made-up anyway, I guess it doesn't much matter *which* imaginary number they use when they talk to the press.
"eBay now has 350 million registered users in the US alone!"
Snort.
By the bye, the brochure I quoted from with the 86 million number is copyright 2004.
posted on February 25, 2004 11:07:26 AM
fluffy, on your Vegas show thread yesterday you gave a link to the ebay clothing selling page. When I looked at it I saw this figure.
eBay brings you 75 million potential new customers
posted on February 25, 2004 11:27:07 AM
Jacks Truck fleet now touts 100 trucks and Growing!
1.Buyers, NEED to !. BEFORE Bidding. Thank you.
2.NPB's (buyers?) have No rights,, Posting. NEED to be BLOCKED by e bay.(But they are NOT!!!!) Upon final filing of NPB.
3.Naru's . Good riddance after 3,,,, DIFFERENT Sellers file NPB's. Negs do 0 to NARU. filing for PARTIAL fees DOES.
4.Current buyers Geographical location i.e. STATE or ZIP or CITY need be known. MISSION ACOMPLISHED! Thanks E bay!
5.E bay need to ENHANCE F/B System. A ing period. Like 20 days of HOOPS on NPB's. Many give up. Works! 4 e bay. They keep K's of $'s. [] trade makes even MORE $..
6.E bay Re release Millions of DEAD I.D's Even the PHONE Company does after a period of time.
!. BEFORE Bidding. Thank you.
. NEED to be BLOCKED by e bay.(But they are NOT!!!!) Upon final filing of NPB.
. Good riddance after 3,,,, DIFFERENT Sellers file NPB's. Negs do 0 to NARU. filing for PARTIAL fees DOES.
California cool Shades.
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