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Just wondering: Who's the eBay Alpha-male?

Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
Or Alpha-female? Or at least the official eBay old-timer? image

Go check your feedback page, and look at your "Member Since" date. What's your date?

Mine is: Tuesday, Apr 28, 1998

Dave
Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,515 ✭✭✭
    Mine says March, 2000. It should say Sept. 1997, but those eBay friggin' turd morons screwed it up.

    Apparently, when I originally signed up it was during a beta phase that required confirmation of the account once testing was done. I was using haggle.com at the time for selling and thus didn't go back to eBay for a couple years. When I went back, the account didn't work and they claimed they couldn't fix it. The dipsh!ts even refused to release my own eMail address back to me.

    So, I re-signed up with a different handle and eMail, than changed the handle back to what it was originally. They let me do that, but they still won't give me my eMail address back?

    Idiots.

    Russ, NCNE
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    Member since: Sunday, Dec 06, 1998
    ANA Member R-213302
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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 19th 2000...Definitely not the alpha male, in fact I am more like the neutered Ebay male.

    Tyler
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    nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,387 ✭✭✭
    Well, I'm there since Friday, May 14, 1999. Though I heard of them earlier.
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    dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Member since: Thursday, Jan 08, 1998 or so it says.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
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    fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    March 6, 1999

    I started off on that other site (Box Lot), but they went down.

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

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    prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    October 30, 1997

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    I received my first feedback March 31, 1996

    Link

    I was using a Lynx browser at that time. Going through a free internet provider called Nyx which was sponsered by the University of Denver.

    I remember walking to school, through 2 feet of snow, up hill both ways... image



    John Dillie
    My web site www.DenverCoin.com
    My eBay About Me page DenverCoin on eBay
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    LokiLoki Posts: 898 ✭✭
    I was around in '96 also but I didn't sell or buy anything. I was scoping it out for ideas to add/modify to my own online auction Website I was programming at the time.
    BTW, anyone remember Skippy?
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    chiefbobchiefbob Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭
    Member since Feb 21, 1998

    Happy Holidays!

    Bob
    Retired Air Force 1965-2000
    Vietnam Vet 1968-1969
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    NapNap Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Member since November 17, 1998

    Total feedback: 2

    It's not the oldest, by far, but it is a model of inefficiency that would be hard to beat!
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    gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,226 ✭✭
    Member since: Wednesday, Apr 08, 1998

    626 positives.
    0 neutrals.
    0 negatives.

    I even remember the first thing I sold. A Soundgarden CD, SOMMS, that was out of print. Sold it for something like $35. I was shocked that someone would pay that much.
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Oct, 1998... But I have almost 1200 feedbacks, red star and a power seller icon... Woooo Hoooooimage
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    Lets seeeeee...Dec 16, 1998

    Greg
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    goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    Wednesday, Feb 18, 1998
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    RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    Member since: Tuesday, Jun 15, 1999

    Looks like I got to the party somewhat late. Most of my early feedback was from buying CDs...I do remember buying an 1859 Seated Dollar in PCGS AU55 on the side at an early point in my eBaying...it was one the coins that got me back into coin collecting.

    I think I have a copy of SOMMS somewhere (buried for so long I forget what it stands for but seems familiar). I know I have a couple of their Sub-Pop releases...maybe its time to throw some CD stuff out there.

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
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    March 22, 1998
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    Wednesday, Jul 14, 1999
    169 positives. 157 are from unique users and count toward the final rating.

    Or so says Ebay. image
    Time sure flies when you don't know what you are doing...

    CoinPeople.com || CoinWiki.com || NumisLinks.com
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    I am not the alpha or anything else male...lol

    Tuesday January 17,2000.

    185 positives and one neutral from a computer outfit that charged me $50 to ship a processor that they sent for $13.18. I mentioned this in my positive feedback to them!!!

    OH WELL!!
    Gary
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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    March 17, 1999, 8 feedbacks. I'm on a blistering pace of one purchase about every five months.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    June 5, 2000 for me.
    Joe
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    Ebay Member Since
    Tuesday, Nov 24, 1998
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
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    ebay member since march 5th 99
    LOOKING FOR 1931-s merc that is nice for the grade and fb
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    LouisCampLouisCamp Posts: 468 ✭✭✭
    Member since: Sunday, Sep 07, 1997

    HaHa...Skippy the guy who fixed the stuff when it broke?


    Lou
    lchobbyco
    ANA Life-Member
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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So far it looks like "DenverCoin" is clearly the Alpha-male.

    Holy cow, feedback going all the way back to March 31, 1996. Thirteen weeks shy of 7 years. Now that's experience! I'm shocked eBay was even around then.

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
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    Hey,

    There were a few people on eBay before me. After all, I did have to muddle my way through all 7 of the items listed in the Computer category before I found something I liked.image

    John Dillie
    My web site www.DenverCoin.com
    My eBay About Me page DenverCoin on eBay
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    GilbertGilbert Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭
    12-23-02

    Does tha make me the "Zulu-male?" image
    Gilbert
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    Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 6,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Goose beat you by a day!!


    ID card thebigeng@aol.com(102)
    Member since: Tuesday, Feb 17, 1998
    Location: United States
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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Member since: Thursday, Sep 28, 2000

    i'm kinda like Russ in that i actually signed up about a year earlier on someone elses PC with their e-mail addy, got my own and re-signed only to get caught in an e-mail fiasco which resulted in a 30 day NARU!!!

    al h.image

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