May 9, 2008
It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay
I can’t imagine trying to sell anything of value on eBay these days — it’s hard enough on Craigslist, and that’s free to post to. “The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password”
February 19, 2008
The World’s Greatest Music Collection - eBay
3m records and 300k CDs, for $3m? Bargain! /me runs off to ask for line increase on my credit cards
December 18, 2007
eBay auction: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards
“You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.” Hooray for the internet!
April 26, 2007
eBay Member Profile for tryork5ifp
Some excellent feedback given to eBay sellers. “Good Seller; reliable, fast, neat, but table manners are horrendous!” “What the..? What THE HELL is this stuff? How the HELL do you get it off? HELP!!”
November 18, 2005
is an ebay fraud seller free? | Ask MetaFilter
This is a long MeFi thread, but worth reading. Summary: Someone posts to mefi asking if it’s possible to catch an ebay scammer. Turns out said questioner *is* an eBay scammer. Collected MeFi masses turn up addresses, bio, photos, etc on scammer. Now in police hands.