posted on November 2, 2006 09:51:55 AM new
"Community Counts" is a fun way for members to join with other eBay buyers and sellers in their area for a chance to benefit their local community! From November 1 through 21, members will earn points to their registered ZIP code when they buy, sell, or use the Community Forums. When it’s over, the ZIP code with the greatest number of points will be named the #1 Community in America for 2006. The winning community will also receive a $10,000 donation to the approved local nonprofit organization of their choice. And eBay will host a party in the #1 community to celebrate their eBay achievement.
Live in a small town? No problem. Points will be adjusted per capita based on the population for each ZIP code as reported by US Census data for 2000. So, whether you are part of a large metropolitan area – or you live in a small town – every community has an equal chance of winning!
PLEASE NOTE that no individual prizes will be awarded as part of “Community Counts.” This is about celebrating communities – virtual and physical – and the role they play in the daily lives of Americans.
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posted on November 2, 2006 10:16:09 AM new
LOL, ain't that special!
Hey, they say size doesn't matter, now if the person out there that lives in the smallest community of the nation that is if it is just nation wide starts buying and say the community has just 10 people and all buy post etc to count, then would it not be 100% activity and this community had the biggest powerseller ever then they would win hands down. Ebay would get out cheap on that party for just 10 people. This is just a very bad example but how in the heck is ebay going to KNOW all the details described in your post if they ain't spying on us poor unsuspecting dopes out here. Makes ya think, they know where all the post come from everything we do, everything ---they -----KNOW ----Everything! Yikes......... (Ya have to hear the inflection in that last whale, and the music in the background. LOL)
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posted on November 2, 2006 10:26:24 AM new
I do not live in the smallest community in America by far, yet eBay says there are only 12 eBay members registered in this zip code.
If that's true, then I've met most of them.
I suggest unto eBay that when you live in the most affluent area* in the country, few people are going to feel the need to be selling on eBay. Or buying, either. In all my years of selling I have had 1 customer in the same town, and perhaps 10 within a 20 mile radius.
This misbegotten contest was born dead. Say a few words over it and bury it in the back yard.
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*Yeah, Claude, depending on whose survey you're looking at, this area beats out your slice of the Garden State.
posted on November 2, 2006 10:33:07 AM new
It is muy stupido. I think someone at eBay has a Christmas bonus based on getting eBay's traffic numbers up.
posted on November 2, 2006 10:59:08 AM new
Win by finding a way to get the numbers up?
Easy,
Fire the bozo who thought that placing Yahoo Ads up front and center on auction search pages would generate more Ebay income. Huh? Oh yeah... there are not enough listings on eBay, lets lure the buyers away from the site and get paid by click instead. NOT!
Fire the department who is building pages so full of code that anyone who does not have the latest zupper-dupper computer on a hard-wired lan can not possible use the listing forms. Of course, the added benefit of including all the spyware on user pages uses valuable server space, thereby slowing the system doen to a crawl during peak activity periods and causes search code to puke all over the user.
BTW, I have recently stripped my listings of the fun and cutesi graphics and extra pictures to see if it improved download time. Of course it did and had the side benefit of sale-through improving.
And while I am beating up on the development team. Take away their 21- 25" screens and make them write code for laptop users. Preferably Pentium 1 laptop users. I am talking code that can be viewed by Grandmaw who is still using her $2000 1999 Gateway special with a 13" screen. That would make them drop all that extra code and stop building forms with screen views that have to be scrolled to be completed.
Oh God, I could waste the rest of my day on this thread.
So do we know yet who had the pleasure of bombing PayPal/ebay this week?
posted on November 2, 2006 11:06:07 AM new
Ltray, I too just took out a bunch of graphica in my vendio templates thinking the same thing. I was even thinking about dropping all the TOS etc to make auctions short and sweet but just don't know bout doing that as yet. I know most people don't bother reading the description much less the TOS so HUM maybe I should start thread and ask every's opinion, don't want to take from this post. will do that.
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posted on November 2, 2006 11:50:21 AM new
I plug in my zip (44102) and get 0. So, what's up with that. Am I doing it wrong? Yes, this has got to be the dumbest eBay contest yet.
posted on November 2, 2006 02:10:42 PM new
I plunk in my zip code and it tells me it does not exist! I live in a fairly large city in Indiana so I know I'm here and I know at least 20 other people who sell on eBay and many more who buy. What gives?
