The rules and restrictions for selling are approaching the dumbfoundedness
of the US tax code.

It's been said before that the direction eBay is choosing, is to be a huge
membership of high volume power sellers, that in reality offer nothing but
throw-away cheap crap, that I can get locally if I wanted it.

I do enjoy finding a lot of cool crap that the smaller sellers pick up at
places I can't get to (an auction/liquidation across the country).

When the interesting stuff is gone because the smaller sellers are forced
out, eBay will very likely become an online version of a Chinese city
marketplace.

But then again (most of ?) American consumerism is about buying products
that insure the job security of the waste management companies.

--
WB
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metalworking projects
www.kwagmire.com/metal_proj.html


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:45:14 -0500, the infamous Pete Keillor
scrawled the following:


Sounds like me. Looks like I'm done with ebay. I haven't been on
there in a while anyway.

I continue to find excellent buys at eBay in a vast array of niches:
clothes, hardware, software, electronics, computer, books, music,
woodworking, metalworking, etc., but I hate what they're becoming.
Damn, how can they continue shooting themselves in the feet like that?
They're -voluntarily- expunging millions of loyal customers. Maroons.

After hearing horror stories (nobody I know has ever had a problem
with account freezes from them) about PayPal, I opened a separate free
bank account specifically for PayPal. No problems in 6 years with
that, either.

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The only difference between a rut and a grave...is in their dimensions.
-- Ellen Glasglow