Just eight days to go.........

[gf-attic]

Who'd have thought it.

[temperate_porcine]

It's so exciting, I can hardly contain myself.

[ianwhorlow]

Incredible isn't it , i have not been able to sleep, can't wait

[tony4cats]

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@ianwhorlow wrote:

Incredible isn't it , i have not been able to sleep, can't wait

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Me neither.

Remind me, what are we talking about.

[ianwhorlow]

Oh come on, you cannot be serious,where have you been hiding

[gf-attic]

Nothing to do with Prez-in-waiting Trump

[tony4cats]

Go on, Go on, gissa clue, go on, go on.

[gf-attic]

OK, you talked me into it.

Clue is a score

[ianwhorlow]

Member since: 22-Nov-96

[canvas_demon]

How do you know how long you have been a member?  

I think I must be so traumatised by the event that I have blocked out the memory of the day I joined Ebay.

[ianwhorlow]

Member since: 31-May-02 in United Kingdom

On your feedback page

[gf-attic]

Well done.

All very different back then.

There was no Ebay UK, everyone had to use the US site.

We got switched here when the UK site opened. The few Powersellers were treated like royality......for a time.

[canvas_demon]

Thank you - never noticed !

[ianwhorlow]

You deserve a medal, closest i could find

[tony4cats]

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@ianwhorlow wrote:

Member since: 22-Nov-96

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Ah, right, would never have guessed.

OK, lets open up the discussion a bit. OP, how has it been for you then, good, bad, indifferent?

[fallen-archie]

You deserve a Golden Grovel. Come on eBay if the BBC can afford it then I'm certain eBay can.😀😄😇

[gf-attic]

My 10th anniversary here was marked by Ebay sending a cake and a bunch of goodies.  Plus a visit to Ebay Towers and meets with the great and good.

Fifteenth was totally ignored.   I'll keep you posted....LOL

Back in 1990s we had special meetings for Powersellers  with Ebay laying on the goodies.  You knew the Ebay personel by name and had the home numbers of many staff. There were " Ebay Universities" and even plans to run a giant Ebay Live Convention  in London. This was abandoned but I did get to go to events in Las Vegas and Boston, USA

 Shortly after things changed as Ebay chased the big e-market players.. I'm sure Mr Disney and Mr Argos are enjoying the perks that we had for a short while.......

But some things have improved. You no longer need to put a little  warning on each listing, pointing out that if Ebay went down for more than 30 minutes in the last hour of an auction you would kill the sale and relist.

[cee-dee]

Hmmmmm, times past eh?

My most annoying recollection of the PS board was when I got an email from another PS saying some scammer had bid on his items and mine.

A quick check revealed the scammer had bid on two of my items and had bid on a whole raft of items with other sellers. Realising the scammer was going to come up with some of the crafty scams then circulating, I cancelled his bids which revealed he put on a top bid of thousands so he'd end up winning no matter how much anyone else bid.

As the scammer was still bidding on things (the list was growing by the minute) I posted what was happening on the PS board but what did ebay do? Removed my thread saying I didn't know for sure what was going to happen. (I forget who was monitoring the PS board back then).

One thing it did reveal was those shilling..... I remember some curtains had been shilled up to over £8,000...... Whether the seller(s) were doing that to see how much had been bid I don't know but really, if they were suspicious of the bidder, they should have cancelled the bids and they'd soon see how much had been bid.

Another time, I'd just sold an item for £1,200 and another PS emailed me to say that some scammer had copied my pics and was offering the item for £600 as a "second chance" offer.  Happy days?

[gf-attic]

Ebay sent me a giant cake -- that's gonna save moneyon the Christmas food bill