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notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
I just logged into ebay and a customized intro page popped up with "New items for Me". They had 10 of my own auctions up there hoping I would bid on them (and that's all, nothing from anyone else). Reminds me of the genius that plugged a power strip into itself and couldn't figure out why it didn't power up...

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    Reminds me of the genius that plugged a power strip into itself and couldn't figure out why it didn't power up...

    LMAO
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    Yup, Its called PureCommiss(TM).

    You Sell & Buy to ONLY yourself, skipping the middle-man (Customer) and sending the Fees directly to EBay.

    1.) You save on Shipping
    2.) No Pesky Scammers to worry about.
    3.) Save on PayPal
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Yup, Its called PureCommiss(TM). You Sell & Buy to ONLY yourself, skipping the middle-man (Customer) and sending the Fees directly to EBay. 1.) You save on Shipping 2.) No Pesky Scammers to worry about. 3.) Save on PayPal >>



    My turn to LMAO...
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,026 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Target marketing
    They know what you have been looking at and they want you to buy what you're interested in ?

    I'm just guessing.
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Uh Jerry,
    Don't you like your coins well enough to bid on them???? It's called shill bidding and works
    wonders. Maybe you now have a backdoor to HIGHER prices???

    lol
    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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    CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    And you don't have to worry so much about customer satisfaction, or those DSR's...image
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    ResRes Posts: 1,086


    << <i>Uh Jerry,
    Don't you like your coins well enough to bid on them???? It's called shill bidding and works
    wonders. Maybe you now have a backdoor to HIGHER prices???

    lol
    bob >>



    Ebay hasn't done enough to promote shill bidding by hiding the bidder names, now they're actually encouraging you to bid on your own auctions.
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,503 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just logged into ebay and a customized intro page popped up with "New items for Me". They had 10 of my own auctions up there hoping I would bid on them (and that's all, nothing from anyone else). Reminds me of the genius that plugged a power strip into itself and couldn't figure out why it didn't power up... >>



    Please go to Whining Wednesday™ ! image
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,531 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just logged into ebay and a customized intro page popped up with "New items for Me". They had 10 of my own auctions up there hoping I would bid on them (and that's all, nothing from anyone else). >>



    Sounds like they are encouraging you to shill your own auction.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think thats called the eBay economic stimulus and recovery policy deployment initiative of 2009; stimulus bidding for short.
    theknowitalltroll;
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    DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    is Bernie Madoff running Ebay now!!image
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,026 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ... a hint of the news :


    SAN FRANCISCO (Market.Watch) -- While Google Inc. has long been in a position to accumulate data about Internet users, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company on Wednesday took its first significant public step toward making use of that information to help it target advertising.

    Google said it's begun testing an "interest-based" service that examines what its users do on a variety of related Web sites to help it deliver both text and display advertising to them. Display advertising is key for Google, as it expands its focus beyond text-based, search advertising.

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    SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,123 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of the genius that plugged a power strip into itself and couldn't figure out why it didn't power up...

    What a revolting image that is.













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