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Idiot on Ebay (ohojim)
Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay
experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, type: lathe -mill -projects (and whatever other words he adds in the titles, etc.) It'll weed out the extra "junk". -- Randy Replogle (Central Indiana) |
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no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10
sellers...works like a champ! "Randy Replogle" wrote in message ... AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, type: lathe -mill -projects (and whatever other words he adds in the titles, etc.) It'll weed out the extra "junk". -- Randy Replogle (Central Indiana) |
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Nice.
I didn't know they added that feature Paul K. Dickman Rick wrote in message ... no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! "Randy Replogle" wrote in message . .. AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, type: lathe -mill -projects (and whatever other words he adds in the titles, etc.) It'll weed out the extra "junk". -- Randy Replogle (Central Indiana) |
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Rick wrote:
no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! I wish they had a feature that allows you to block a seller's items forever- I'm in NY and constantly getting the Machinery Values ebay store fantasy listings that I have to scroll through. |
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ATP wrote:
Rick wrote: no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! I wish they had a feature that allows you to block a seller's items forever- I'm in NY and constantly getting the Machinery Values ebay store fantasy listings that I have to scroll through. There's several changes to ebay I'd like to see. Unfortuately, ebay is not interested in making any changes that might decrease the number of sales they do. Specifically, I'd like to see feedback displayed only after both parties have entered it. Feedback is essentially useless because anyone posting legitimate negative feedback is almost certain to get revenge negative feedback from the other party. |
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Jim Stewart wrote:
ATP wrote: Rick wrote: no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! I wish they had a feature that allows you to block a seller's items forever- I'm in NY and constantly getting the Machinery Values ebay store fantasy listings that I have to scroll through. There's several changes to ebay I'd like to see. Unfortuately, ebay is not interested in making any changes that might decrease the number of sales they do. Specifically, I'd like to see feedback displayed only after both parties have entered it. Feedback is essentially useless because anyone posting legitimate negative feedback is almost certain to get revenge negative feedback from the other party. Even scumbags have 98% + ratings! As far as other changes, how about when you go back to the list of items, you're directed to the last item you looked at, instead of to the top of the page? |
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Jim Stewart wrote:
There's several changes to ebay I'd like to see. Unfortuately, ebay is not interested in making any changes that might decrease the number of sales they do. Hopefully ebay will realize it is the *customers* who buy things that really drive the train. -- Mark |
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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message ... Specifically, I'd like to see feedback displayed only after both parties have entered it. Huh? So that all a bad seller has to do to avoid negs is not post any feedback? Jeff |
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Jim Stewart wrote:
There's several changes to ebay I'd like to see. Unfortuately, ebay is not interested in making any changes that might decrease the number of sales they do. Specifically, I'd like to see feedback displayed only after both parties have entered it. I'll tell you what I'd like to see done differently on ebay regarding feedback viewing - I wish I could click on the red negative feedbacks and see just a list of those! I hate having to wade through hundreds of feedbacks just to look at the bad ones. Grant |
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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 04:39:04 GMT, "ATP"
wrote: Rick wrote: no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! I wish they had a feature that allows you to block a seller's items forever- I'm in NY and constantly getting the Machinery Values ebay store fantasy listings that I have to scroll through. Do they Ever? sell a machine? Hardinge HCs for $4500? weeks and weeks at a time... I emailed one such seller a while back...wanting 1995 boom time prices for obsolete machines..and he emailed back his was worth $xxxx because it was so much prettier and cleaner. I followed his auctions for about 2 months and I dont think he ever sold a thing. Gunner "Gun Control, the theory that a 110lb grandmother should fist fight a 250lb 19yr old criminal" |
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In article , Gunner says...
Do they Ever? sell a machine? Hardinge HCs for $4500? weeks and weeks at a time... What about that guy who wants to sell a rack of old 5Cs for 400 dollars - plus the assorted scrap metal that one would have to ship, and then pay to have disposed of at your end... Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Gunner wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 04:39:04 GMT, "ATP" wrote: Rick wrote: no, just go to search by seller tab and exlude a list of up to 10 sellers...works like a champ! I wish they had a feature that allows you to block a seller's items forever- I'm in NY and constantly getting the Machinery Values ebay store fantasy listings that I have to scroll through. Do they Ever? sell a machine? Hardinge HCs for $4500? weeks and weeks at a time... They occasionally have a real ebay style auction, with no or low reserve. The rest of the stuff is in their ebay store, where it is apparently cheap to list items forever. Maybe they are just trying to keep their inventory on the web and attract inquiries, but it seems to me the prices are so high they are scaring off most interested parties. |
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Thanks that worked. I saved my little list because advanced features
does not save the list for me. IE mill wood steam practical manual guides book quality deep chart accuracy cut how taper operation keep running build projects list I now just copy this into advanced features exclude. Randy Replogle wrote: AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, type: lathe -mill -projects (and whatever other words he adds in the titles, etc.) It'll weed out the extra "junk". -- Randy Replogle (Central Indiana) |
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Bob wrote:
Randy Replogle wrote: .... type: lathe -mill -projects (and whatever other words he adds in the titles, etc.) It'll weed out the extra "junk". Thanks that worked. I saved my little list because advanced features does not save the list for me. IE mill wood steam practical manual guides book quality deep chart accuracy cut how taper operation keep running build projects list I now just copy this into advanced features exclude. I'm not sure what you mean by "advanced features does not save the list". Anyhow, you can save a whole search by clicking "Add to My Favorite Searches" near the top right of page 1 of search results. After you save it, click the "lathe -mill -wood -steam -prac" link on http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...yEbayFavorites to do the search whenever you want. With netscape-like browsers, as you view the favorite-searches page, you can drag-and-drop the lathe-search link onto one of the tools lines at the top of browser page. (You might also want to Edit Bookmarks / Bookmark Properties to shorten the resulting tool name; I have SSell, Serbay, etc. lined up on a tool line, standing for search by seller, search ebay, etc.) Re ohojim's book listings, they look like legitimate machining books (eg, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2583630752 and http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2583630810 ) properly listed and explained, without any of the tactics proscribed in http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/...-keywords.html so I think whoever started the thread is wrong to call ohojim an idiot. -jiw |
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James Waldby wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "advanced features does not save the list". Anyhow, you can save a whole search by clicking "Add to My Favorite Searches" near the top right of page 1 of search results. After you save it, click the "lathe -mill -wood -steam -prac" link on http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...yEbayFavorites to do the search whenever you want. With netscape-like browsers, as you view the favorite-searches page, you can drag-and-drop the lathe-search link onto one of the tools lines at the top of browser page. (You might also want to Edit Bookmarks / Bookmark Properties to shorten the resulting tool name; I have SSell, Serbay, etc. lined up on a tool line, standing for search by seller, search ebay, etc.) Re ohojim's book listings, they look like legitimate machining books (eg, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2583630752 and http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2583630810 ) properly listed and explained, without any of the tactics proscribed in http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/...-keywords.html so I think whoever started the thread is wrong to call ohojim an idiot. -jiw Ok, my browser was not acting properly, but now, after rebooting it is acting as you say. |
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Don't worry... He just went nutz on Ebays' free listing day on the 26th...
When he has to pay to sell, he'll settle down... "AllenB" wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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Unless he can continue to re-list those items that didn't sell on the first
round. "Jeff Rice" wrote in message ... Don't worry... He just went nutz on Ebays' free listing day on the 26th... When he has to pay to sell, he'll settle down... "AllenB" wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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This sort of stuff has been going on as long as ebay's been around.
Tweak your search by adding things like lathe -book . Keep adding subtractions until you get back to a reasonable list of auctions. Then bookmark the search page and it'll save your search parameters. Some of mine have 10 or 15 minus signs. Paul K. Dickman AllenB wrote in message . .. Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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Simple!
Just exlude the seller from your search. Go to search by seller, and near the bottom you will see a text box where you can list up to 10 sellers. Check the box that says exclude this sellers from my search and then type your search text in the search box. I get about 216 matches for live steam by excluding ohojim Nice huh? Here is a link to the ebay search for live steam - ohojim: http://search.ebay.com/search/search...eam&se=9152677 You can obviously change the search text to lathe or penis pump, or whatever suits your fancy :-) Rick "AllenB" wrote in message om... Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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Just for kicks, here is a link to the ebay search for lathe - ohojim:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...e& se=9152677 Still a lot of hits (2114), but it does cut it down from 4510 (dang that guy has a lot of stuff up!) Rick "Rick" wrote in message ... Simple! Just exlude the seller from your search. Go to search by seller, and near the bottom you will see a text box where you can list up to 10 sellers. Check the box that says exclude this sellers from my search and then type your search text in the search box. I get about 216 matches for live steam by excluding ohojim Nice huh? Here is a link to the ebay search for live steam - ohojim: http://search.ebay.com/search/search...eam&se=9152677 You can obviously change the search text to lathe or penis pump, or whatever suits your fancy :-) Rick "AllenB" wrote in message om... Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. Before, I would get 2 maybe 3 pages of results on this search, it made it easy to scan, but as a result of this idiot one now has to wade through 9 pages of listings. Hell, I don't mind if someone wants to make a buck, and sells new books via ebay, but at least this idiot could hold one or two dutch auctions instead of having over 50 listings for each book! Ebay doesn't care this guy is a big seller. |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:49:34 +0000, Rick wrote:
Simple! Just exlude the seller from your search. Thanks Rick. That's a big help. -- "There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly." -- Revi Shankar ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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There are two ways to exclude sellers. One is used during a keyword search,
and the syntax is &se=userid1[+userid2..] e.g. &se=8081126001. The other is used in category searches, like when you're looking at all metalworking items within the Seattle area and you don't want to see the idiot who sells manuals. That syntax is e.g.: &sasellerex=25119449+1796081+111379987+70671053 You should know and become familiar with both of these. This would have worked to 100% exclude Al Babin back in the day (if any are still around who remember that rascal). There is no direct way to find a seller's internal ebay number. If they have an "ebay store" then to get the sellers id place your cursor over their store in the listing and see what the url is in the status bar. It will have id/1580591 or some such. Your exclusion qualifier will then be "&se=1580591" (omit the quotes) tacked to the end of your search url. If they don't have an ebay store then get their seller id (e.g. "reliabletools") into your cut/paste buffer and go to Search-By Seller and then put some dummy keyword in and the seller's id down below and then click "Search" and examine the url of the following page - it can be inferred from that. This sounds a little tricky, and in fact, it is. But it is hugely useful and I use this all the time. Guys on this NG are so smart you shouldn't have any real trouble with it. Grant Erwin Kirkland, Washington |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:03:22 -0800, Grant Erwin wrote:
[Instructions on obtaining a seller's ebay ID # in order to exclude them from searches] This sounds a little tricky, and in fact, it is. But it is hugely useful and I use this all the time. Guys on this NG are so smart you shouldn't have any real trouble with it. Thanks for the detailed info, Grant, but wouldn't it be nice if ebay had a simple "plonk" mechanism? Heck, it'd probably cut down on their administrative costs if users could ignore errant sellers with a mouse click or two. I wonder if they could be persuaded to add such a feature? -- "There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly." -- Revi Shankar ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Grant Erwin wrote
There is no direct way to find a seller's internal ebay number. If they have an "ebay store" then to get the sellers id place your cursor over their store in the listing and see what the url is in the status bar. It will have id/1580591 Grant, You don't need the ebay store for this. Goto search by seller and at the bottom of the page search for more than one ebay id (yours plus the other guy). It will show the id numbers in the url. Regards, dave |
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I have been following this thread with some interest since this
practice of multiple listings for the same item is a pet peeve of mine. When one is on a dialup with limited bandwidth, any behavior like this uses bandwidth that one can ill afford to squander. While there has been a number of good suggestions, I have yet to see the one I use. If a seller chooses to "spam" the listings with multiple listings of the same item, I send them a short email pointing out that Dutch auctions should be used for this type of item. I also mention that if I see it occurring again I will NEVER purchase ANYTHING from them. In the end, some sellers take the hint and modify their behavior while others (Ohojim) never learn. If everyone who reads this newsgroup would send a "friendly" reminder to Ohojim mentioning that his questionable sales tactics are negatively affecting his bottom line, I suspect that this would be the last time you see this problem from him. If he doesn't get the message from your emails, by carrying through with not buying from him will definitely get the message through. TMT (Dave) wrote in message om... (AllenB) wrote in message . com... Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. [...] Often it is possible to limit the search to one category such as "Business and Industrial" and avoid the toys and games. |
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Hey TMT,
Yeah.... but he is SUCH a nice guy! OHO stands for One Horse Outfit, and that's him. Good seller in my books, although I agree about the band width. Blowing through his stuff can slow you down so much that you miss a bid on an item you wanted due to bid closing time-out. Take care. Happy New Year. Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario. XXXXXXXXXXXXX On 2 Jan 2004 08:31:44 -0800, (Too_Many_Tools) wrote: I have been following this thread with some interest since this practice of multiple listings for the same item is a pet peeve of mine. When one is on a dialup with limited bandwidth, any behavior like this uses bandwidth that one can ill afford to squander. While there has been a number of good suggestions, I have yet to see the one I use. If a seller chooses to "spam" the listings with multiple listings of the same item, I send them a short email pointing out that Dutch auctions should be used for this type of item. I also mention that if I see it occurring again I will NEVER purchase ANYTHING from them. In the end, some sellers take the hint and modify their behavior while others (Ohojim) never learn. If everyone who reads this newsgroup would send a "friendly" reminder to Ohojim mentioning that his questionable sales tactics are negatively affecting his bottom line, I suspect that this would be the last time you see this problem from him. If he doesn't get the message from your emails, by carrying through with not buying from him will definitely get the message through. TMT (Dave) wrote in message om... (AllenB) wrote in message . com... Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. [...] Often it is possible to limit the search to one category such as "Business and Industrial" and avoid the toys and games. |
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A lot of his stuff seems to come straight from Lindsay. I haven't looked at
his auctions lately but a while back he seemed to be listing Lindsay's books to open at higher than Lindsay's list price. "Brian Lawson" wrote in message ... Hey TMT, Yeah.... but he is SUCH a nice guy! OHO stands for One Horse Outfit, and that's him. Good seller in my books, although I agree about the band width. Blowing through his stuff can slow you down so much that you miss a bid on an item you wanted due to bid closing time-out. Take care. Happy New Year. Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario. XXXXXXXXXXXXX On 2 Jan 2004 08:31:44 -0800, (Too_Many_Tools) wrote: I have been following this thread with some interest since this practice of multiple listings for the same item is a pet peeve of mine. When one is on a dialup with limited bandwidth, any behavior like this uses bandwidth that one can ill afford to squander. While there has been a number of good suggestions, I have yet to see the one I use. If a seller chooses to "spam" the listings with multiple listings of the same item, I send them a short email pointing out that Dutch auctions should be used for this type of item. I also mention that if I see it occurring again I will NEVER purchase ANYTHING from them. In the end, some sellers take the hint and modify their behavior while others (Ohojim) never learn. If everyone who reads this newsgroup would send a "friendly" reminder to Ohojim mentioning that his questionable sales tactics are negatively affecting his bottom line, I suspect that this would be the last time you see this problem from him. If he doesn't get the message from your emails, by carrying through with not buying from him will definitely get the message through. TMT (Dave) wrote in message om... (AllenB) wrote in message . com... Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Try typing "live steam" into the search box, the same idiot has saturated the results with his book listings. [...] Often it is possible to limit the search to one category such as "Business and Industrial" and avoid the toys and games. |
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AllenB wrote:
Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Just in case someone wanted to do business with OHOJIM, it might be illuminating to read what his reply to this same situation last year (from Google). *////////////////////////////// You may be surprised to know that I agree with you! I had been working on my launch-bots for two days and was in the process of separating the ones out I didn't want to use. About 11:30 that night I got an email from eBay telling me that the next day, Dec. 26th, was a free listing day. I spent the next 3 hours purging all those I didn't intend to use, hit the launch button and went to bed about 1:30AM. When I got up the next morning, to my horror they had all launched! Including all the ones I thought I had purged which was mostly made up of duplicates! I guess by 1:30 I had gotten too punchy. This was certainly not intentional and will never happen again - I hope! At least this one time boo boo by me will be over in a very few days. Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but it seems I make the big ones! I appreciate your concern and your patience. ///////////////////* I believe Nat Cole wrote the lyrics for this one. "your story is so touching but it sounds just like a lie" Kevin Gallimore -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Idiot on Ebay (ohojim)
Guess he still hasn't fixed that bot then - he currently has over 1178
auctions listed. "axolotl" wrote in message ... AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay experience. I regularly type "lathe" into the search box, to see what auctions are ending in the next few days, now thanks to this idiot I get hundreds of listings for books, many with the same title, it makes it very difficult to browse the other auctions. Just in case someone wanted to do business with OHOJIM, it might be illuminating to read what his reply to this same situation last year (from Google). *////////////////////////////// You may be surprised to know that I agree with you! I had been working on my launch-bots for two days and was in the process of separating the ones out I didn't want to use. About 11:30 that night I got an email from eBay telling me that the next day, Dec. 26th, was a free listing day. I spent the next 3 hours purging all those I didn't intend to use, hit the launch button and went to bed about 1:30AM. When I got up the next morning, to my horror they had all launched! Including all the ones I thought I had purged which was mostly made up of duplicates! I guess by 1:30 I had gotten too punchy. This was certainly not intentional and will never happen again - I hope! At least this one time boo boo by me will be over in a very few days. Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but it seems I make the big ones! I appreciate your concern and your patience. ///////////////////* I believe Nat Cole wrote the lyrics for this one. "your story is so touching but it sounds just like a lie" Kevin Gallimore -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Idiot on Ebay (ohojim)
axolotl wrote:
AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay (snip) Just in case someone wanted to do business with OHOJIM, it might be illuminating to read what his reply to this same situation last year (from Google). *///////////////// You may be surprised to know that I agree with you! I had been working on my launch-bots for two days and was in the process of separating the ones out I didn't want to use. About 11:30 that night I got an email from eBay telling me that the next day, Dec. 26th, was a free listing day. I spent the next 3 hours purging all those I didn't intend to use, hit the launch button and went to bed about 1:30AM. When I got up the next morning, to my horror they had all launched! Including all the ones I thought I had purged which was mostly made up of duplicates! I guess by 1:30 I had gotten too punchy. This was certainly not intentional and will never happen again - I hope! At least this one time boo boo by me will be over in a very few days. Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but it seems I make the big ones! I appreciate your concern and your patience. ///////////////////* His excuse THIS YEAR: (e-mail from OHOJIM, sent to me) "Oh man! I screwed up! " "It's even worse than you think! It was 2am and I did something wrong! I'm still trying to figure out what it was because I sure don't want to do that again! I'd taken a sleeping pill about 9:30 with my prostate medicine so I could go to sleep and I went in to check the computer one last time. I saw that Friday was a free listing day so I told my wife I had to go back to the shop. I didn't remember the sleeping pill until I realized I just couldn't think and I was getting sleepy as hell. That was about 1am I kept at it until 2am and just gave up and went home. I didn't think I'd "gotten any auctions launched until about noon the next day when they all began to show up! " "At least half of them will be gone by Monday and all of them by Friday. " "Thanks for your patience! " "Jim " " |
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Idiot on Ebay (ohojim)
Thanks for posting this interesting email.
You might want to point out this thread to him (I strongly suspect he already knows about it). I think we have a good idea as to his ethics in regards to his business practices...as least I do. He won't have to worry about me doing ANY business with him EVER on Ebay. TMT Ms. Manners wrote in message . .. axolotl wrote: AllenB wrote: Some idiot called ohojim is really spoiling the ebay (snip) Just in case someone wanted to do business with OHOJIM, it might be illuminating to read what his reply to this same situation last year (from Google). *///////////////// You may be surprised to know that I agree with you! I had been working on my launch-bots for two days and was in the process of separating the ones out I didn't want to use. About 11:30 that night I got an email from eBay telling me that the next day, Dec. 26th, was a free listing day. I spent the next 3 hours purging all those I didn't intend to use, hit the launch button and went to bed about 1:30AM. When I got up the next morning, to my horror they had all launched! Including all the ones I thought I had purged which was mostly made up of duplicates! I guess by 1:30 I had gotten too punchy. This was certainly not intentional and will never happen again - I hope! At least this one time boo boo by me will be over in a very few days. Everybody makes mistakes from time to time but it seems I make the big ones! I appreciate your concern and your patience. ///////////////////* His excuse THIS YEAR: (e-mail from OHOJIM, sent to me) "Oh man! I screwed up! " "It's even worse than you think! It was 2am and I did something wrong! I'm still trying to figure out what it was because I sure don't want to do that again! I'd taken a sleeping pill about 9:30 with my prostate medicine so I could go to sleep and I went in to check the computer one last time. I saw that Friday was a free listing day so I told my wife I had to go back to the shop. I didn't remember the sleeping pill until I realized I just couldn't think and I was getting sleepy as hell. That was about 1am I kept at it until 2am and just gave up and went home. I didn't think I'd "gotten any auctions launched until about noon the next day when they all began to show up! " "At least half of them will be gone by Monday and all of them by Friday. " "Thanks for your patience! " "Jim " " |
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