If it is true that 5,000,000 are available at any one time, and if we assume
that each auction lasts on average 1 week, then there are about 130,000,000
items available over the course of a year (even more if there are list
specials, etc. So the question is "what percent of these turn out to be
bad?" We would then need to compare this % to the 0f bad transactions
outside of ebay (i.e. the consumer store world). Given that ebay allows us
to get many items that are not sold elsewhere, we would need to temper our
response accordingly vis-à-vis the percents discussed above.
Has anyone completed such an analysis? I am not trying to take ebay's side
here, I am just curious as to how often a bad transaction occurs. I suspect
if we could look at the raw numbers, it would turn out that the number of
bad transactions is quite low relatively speaking.
-Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Williams [mailto:skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:41 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: wclark@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] EBAY Issues (Please use restraint)
Bill, Just in case you didn't realize it, this topic has been beat to death
here and on many other lists over the past years.
Suffice it to say that when you facilitate the selling of 5,000,000 items at
one time, there's a lot of room for scheisters, con-artists, jerks, and
dishonesty. When buying/selling on Ebay, read their rules/advice, use
common sense, realize that you seldom get something for nothing, and be
careful about buying new items below the best-advertised prices.
Please, let's not let this thread overwhelm us.
Skip
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>From: William Clark <wclark@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "'Olympus List'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] EBAY Issues
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:51:10 -0400
>
>Hey all,
>
> I have been on this list for about 7 months now (very informative)
>but have seen many list members with issues about ebay. I am curious as to
>why this is. I myself have only used ebay 27 times for low value items, so
>I am unsure what the issues are. I am just curious. Any info on this?
>
>-Bill
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