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BiddlesBank
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I am referencing an article I posted on my website. EBAY FEEDBACK EVOLUTION
The article will only be there for the rest of the week so if interested in how the Ebay feedback system developed and why it still does not function perfectly click on the link.
Comments, corrections, and different experiences welcome.
I am referencing an article I posted on my website. EBAY FEEDBACK EVOLUTION
The article will only be there for the rest of the week so if interested in how the Ebay feedback system developed and why it still does not function perfectly click on the link.
Comments, corrections, and different experiences welcome.
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Jerry
Seriously though, I liked the openness of Ebay back then. But alot of what Ebay did back then was prior to scammers being able to figure out how to take advantage of a trust-based system. The world has certainly changed.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
<< <i>The world has certainly changed. >>
No it hasn't. It just took a little bit for the scum to wake up to the fact that they could infect eBay.
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<< <i>The world has certainly changed. >>
No it hasn't. It just took a little bit for the scum to wake up to the fact that they could infect eBay. >>
Good point. Still, it's more fun to reminisce about the good old days. Pisses my kids off, too.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
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<< <i>The world has certainly changed. >>
No it hasn't. It just took a little bit for the scum to wake up to the fact that they could infect eBay. >>
Good point. Still, it's more fun to reminisce about the good old days. Pisses my kids off, too. >>
When did Ebay get strated? 1998?
Larry
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Ebay history
Will’sProoflikes
just my two cents, good info, but distracting presentation.
<< <i>"I think BiddlesBank meant 1999. Yes, you could." >>
As Ed McMahon said, "You are correct sir!"
SORRY ABOUT THE TYPO. Then my ISP shut down.
Actually my first feedback I received is still posted on ebay from Jan 11, 1999
WELCOME TO EBAY AND THANK YOU FOR BIDDING - Martyschmitt Jan 11 - 99.
But weird things happened back then like the dotlib scam that is talked about in the article: EBAY FEEDBACK EVOLUTION
It's just that we had the ability to contact each other and talk about the sellers as your email address was available to everyone and if something screwy was going on you could warn each other. Now Ebay has made that kind of interaction between bidders very difficult.
Jerry
i saw it once, it was pretty entertaining
<< <i>is that called cash cab?
i saw it once, it was pretty entertaining
Yes it was Cash Cab. The question was Web Auction was the 1st name to what big internet auction site. Then the driver went on to describe everything about eBay. So, the answer to the question was eBay. When I 1st came up on the net I didn't know nuttin! I thought eBay and Yahoo auctions were the same group!
Jerry
Will’sProoflikes
<< <i>ttown, I couldn't get your link to open. Also, I saw on a game show...the one where you ride in a cab. It had a question about what eBay was first called. It was WebAuction. Was anybody registered when eBay was called that?
Jerry >>
Here you go:
The History of eBay
eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals.
In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in Meg Whitman to sustain the success. Meg had studied at the Harvard Business School and had learned the importance of branding at companies such as Hasbro.
Meg culled her senior staff from companies such as Pepsico and Disney, created an experienced management team with an average of 20 years of business experience and built a strong vision for the company -- that eBay is a company that's in the business of connecting people, not selling them things.
They quickly shed the image of only auctioning collectibles and moved into an array of upscale markets where the average sale price (ASP) is higher. ASP is a key metric in determining eBay's transaction fees, so increasing the ASP became an important item. By forging partnerships with namebrands such as GM, Disney and Sun, eBay has managed to do exactly that. Sun has sold
$10 million worth of equipment and it now lists between 20 and 150 items per day.
The Business Model
eBay has built an online person-to-person trading community on the Internet, using the World Wide Web. Buyers and sellers are brought together in a manner where sellers are permitted to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through listed items in a fully automated way. The items are arranged by topics, where each type of auction has its own category.
eBay has both streamlined and globalized traditional person-to-person trading, which has traditionally been conducted through such forms as garage sales, collectibles shows, flea markets and more, with their web interface. This facilitates easy exploration for buyers and enables the sellers to immediately list an item for sale within minutes of registering.
Browsing and bidding on auctions is free of charge, but sellers are charged two kinds of charges:
When an item is listed on eBay a nonrefundable Insertion Fee is charged, which ranges between 30 cents and $3.30, depending on the seller's opening bid on the item.
A fee is charged for additional listing options to promote the item, such as highlighted or bold listing.
A Final Value (final sale price) fee is charged at the end of the seller's auction. This fee generally ranges from 1.25% to 5% of the final sale price.
eBay notifies the buyer and seller via e-mail at the end of the auction if a bid exceeds the seller's minimum price, and the seller and buyer finish the transaction independently of eBay. The binding contract of the auction is between the winning bidder and the seller only.
In 1999 I got a email from Pierre himself.
I had complained about a negative feedback I got from a scam artist when I warned other ebayers of the scam.
Eventually Pierre himself send me an email stating: "I should wear the negative feedback as badge of honor for doing my duty to warn others."
However I have not know of any instances where anyone wearing a "badge of honor" is being commended by Ebay or anyone else for that matter.
Ebay never would remove that negative even though they paid out a lot of money in the form of Ebay insurance to bidders caught in the scam.
Do they still provide the automatic $250 scam insurance like they did back then??