> From my perspective of 12 years plus as a seller, the biggest flaw in
> the system is the lack of buyer controls.
> Sellers are not allowed to select the level of security appropriate
> for each auction.
> Being able to set and select buyer performance levels would go far
> prevent fraud allowed by the one-way feedback system.
> Extortion and fraudulent "Not As Described" claims are eroding
> participation and profits more than any other factor.
> Customer service and investigations are lacking in a clearly
> insufficient and incompetent system.
> The damage to ebay/Paypal reputation will last far into the future,
> and the anger of American families will not go unpunished.
> I am shocked more than anything by the silence of broadcast
> journalism. What oddities are sold on Ebay is not interesting to me.
> What is however, is the disdain and disregard for individuals,
> families and their welfare.
> If a station were to finally nationally expose the great flood of
> fraud that is rampant on Ebay, I would not applaud, but simply say
> "Where were you?"
> I am shocked by the silence of companies like Western Union and
> shocked at the silence of the Treasury and the bankiing industry.
> I am shocked by the silence of consumer agencies and polling
> organizations.
> It is simply mind boggling, the utterly tragic lack of leadership.

> BZCN has bulding momentum with over 300 million shares already traded.
> Last years peak in mid december was .11 and its leveling at 30% up to
> day @ .0013. Just sayin if you like EBAY you have to check out its
> little but highly profitable Stock BZCN!!!!! Thank me later

> On Nov 20, 11:03 am, DayTrader <royaltycrui...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > BZCN is at a great low price and is about to begin the holiday run.
> > BZCN does most all of its business during the months of December -
> > February.  Last year BZCN hit a high of 11 cents.  Even if we get
> > halfway there that would be a 5000% pecent gain.

> > BZCN offers liqiudation for Ebay.  They pick up products sell them on
> > Ebay for a lot more then they paid for it.  They have also opened
> > another clothing store called Luckys 7 in California that sell
> > brandname clothes for less.  Kind of like Ross.

> > BZCN has positive feed back and is begining to make money.  This
> > holiday season many people are trying to save money and BZCN does just
> > that.  BZCN helps companies save money, time and wearhouse space.  In
> > these difficult time saving money is a key point to get through this
> > recession.  Do a little DD before you buy this but I think you will
> > find this stock has some huge potential and is about to start a nicve
> > run in a short period of time.- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

> From my perspective of 12 years plus as a seller, the biggest flaw in
> the system is the lack of buyer controls.
> Sellers are not allowed to select the level of security appropriate
> for each auction.
> Being able to set and select buyer performance levels would go far
> prevent fraud allowed by the one-way feedback system.
> Extortion and fraudulent "Not As Described" claims are eroding
> participation and profits more than any other factor.
> Customer service and investigations are lacking in a clearly
> insufficient and incompetent system.
> The damage to ebay/Paypal reputation will last far into the future,
> and the anger of American families will not go unpunished.
> I am shocked more than anything by the silence of broadcast
> journalism. What oddities are sold on Ebay is not interesting to me.
> What is however, is the disdain and disregard for individuals,
> families and their welfare.
> If a station were to finally nationally expose the great flood of
> fraud that is rampant on Ebay, I would not applaud, but simply say
> "Where were you?"
> I am shocked by the silence of companies like Western Union and
> shocked at the silence of the Treasury and the bankiing industry.
> I am shocked by the silence of consumer agencies and polling
> organizations.
> It is simply mind boggling, the utterly tragic lack of leadership.

> Bet their biz jet is working just fine though--maintained 24/7 unlike
> the site that actually pays for it. What a pathetic joke eBay is. It's
> been almost a year since I walked away after seven years as a member
> and four selling and never looked back.

> I still buy PLENTY on-line,just not from that smoldering heap of years
> past.

> On Nov 21, 10:15 pm, ric <ric...@verizon.net> wrote:

> >  eBay Outage Leaves Holiday Shoppers (and Sellers) in the Lurch

> > By Ina Steiner
> > AuctionBytes.com
> > November 21, 2009
> > Reading AuctionBytes: eBay Outage Leaves Holiday Shoppers (and
> > Sellers) in the Lurch

> > Problems with eBay search on Saturday morning turned into a complete
> > search outage by noon. Shoppers were unable to find items through
> > searching for items or by browsing categories. eBay said the problem
> > was due to errors in some of its backend systems in a post on its
> > System Announcement Board. The problem is affecting eBay.com and at
> > least some of its international websites, including eBay UK.

> > Users began complaining of the problem on eBay discussion boards, and
> > users also tweeted the problem using the hashtag #fail on Twitter.

> > eBay's outage policy affects only listings scheduled to end during the
> > outage or in the hour after the end of the outage.

> > Sellers are less concerned about listing fees than they are about lost
> > sales. Outages such as these are particularly painful for sellers of
> > auction format listings where a seller may be obligated to sell to the
> > highest bidder even though nobody else could find the auction listing.

> > The search outage was ongoing at 3 pm PST as we went to press with
> > this story.- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

>  eBay Outage Leaves Holiday Shoppers (and Sellers) in the Lurch

> By Ina Steiner
> AuctionBytes.com
> November 21, 2009
> Reading AuctionBytes: eBay Outage Leaves Holiday Shoppers (and
> Sellers) in the Lurch

> Problems with eBay search on Saturday morning turned into a complete
> search outage by noon. Shoppers were unable to find items through
> searching for items or by browsing categories. eBay said the problem
> was due to errors in some of its backend systems in a post on its
> System Announcement Board. The problem is affecting eBay.com and at
> least some of its international websites, including eBay UK.

> Users began complaining of the problem on eBay discussion boards, and
> users also tweeted the problem using the hashtag #fail on Twitter.

> eBay's outage policy affects only listings scheduled to end during the
> outage or in the hour after the end of the outage.

> Sellers are less concerned about listing fees than they are about lost
> sales. Outages such as these are particularly painful for sellers of
> auction format listings where a seller may be obligated to sell to the
> highest bidder even though nobody else could find the auction listing.

> The search outage was ongoing at 3 pm PST as we went to press with
> this story.