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Wow, some lucky guy won a PSA Ruth card for a buck!
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Wish I would have know about this earlier, but it sold so fast I would not have had a chance to win it unless I was sitting at my PC all day constantly hitting refresh. I wonder if a card collector won this, or just a profiteer?
PSA Babe Ruth Card for a Buck
PSA Babe Ruth Card for a Buck
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Brian
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RIP GURU
Steve
<< <i>We should report them and see if they ban themselves >>
I'm sure they'll just open another account!
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<< <i>Textwonder if the buyer used the 30% live.com discount and got it for .70 cents >>
That would be classic!
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Good job eBay.
MSNBC article on Ebay's Doorbuster promotion
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Is anyone surprised?
Steve
Bids placed by scripting tools are now so widespread that some eBay auction sellers pulled pranks in recent days and began inserting the word "Holiday Doorbusters" into their descriptions so automated tools would be tricked into purchasing them. In one case, a member sold several $1 pictures of his pet with this warning:
"This is picture I took of my cat with my Cannon Powershot Camera after she overheard that people where using scripting to purchase HOLIDAY DOORBUSTERS items on eBay. Not responsible for poor scripting techniques."
MSNBC.com article
<< <i>Quote from MSNBC.com article on the eBay promotion:
Bids placed by scripting tools are now so widespread that some eBay auction sellers pulled pranks in recent days and began inserting the word "Holiday Doorbusters" into their descriptions so automated tools would be tricked into purchasing them. In one case, a member sold several $1 pictures of his pet with this warning:
"This is picture I took of my cat with my Cannon Powershot Camera after she overheard that people where using scripting to purchase HOLIDAY DOORBUSTERS items on eBay. Not responsible for poor scripting techniques."
MSNBC.com article >>
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And it was against the rules set in place by ebay.
Steve
The easy remedy - after the fact - is for EBAY to force the "cheaters" to litigate
any attempts to claim the prizes. An HONEST - non-RICO - enterprise would
do that in a flash.
..........
I was at the USPS a while ago. The lines were HUGE. MOST of the folks in line
were either talking about or listening to BASHING stories about the "contest."
EBAY can ill-afford the kind of publicity and word-of-mouth that this MESS is
going to generate.
.............
Such contests can EASILY be made fair. It almost seems like everything JD
does is intentionally designed to wreck the company.
I suspect that everybody is going to be shocked at the number of longtime
sellers who exit EBAY during the early part of 2009. Google search-results
are ALL that is needed to sell items; EBAY is nearly redundant.
Steve