Re: Ebay's new policy on shill bidding


"family members, employees, and roommates" disallowed, they repeat it 4
times. A strange addition to the rules you say?? Not when one considers
how they're catching people.
Translation: "anyone who bids from the same PC or IP(in the same
timeframe) an item is listed from, stands a real good chance of getting
the axe"
But they don't want to say it in so many words, for then the proles
might catch on to what many already know, and take
these few simple steps to protect their privacy: A dial-up with several
local numbers available, 2 mutually non-interactive browsers, one of
which does not store cookies, or which dumps them on exit. IE can be
"fixed" in 9x OS' by making 'index.dat' in the cookies folder read-only
(after deleting it in DOS and letting IE build a new, clean one). Flush
the extant cookies & temp internet files while you're there. (lots on
the web about this) Most of the "elite" browsers (Mozilla, Opera) are
fully user adjustable, no sweat.
"bidding by individuals with a level of access to information" yea, my
bum. What do they think this is, a securities bourse?
I can assure you, they smithed the wording of that for a coupla months
to keep the hints from screaming out at people.
ebay need to face it, screwing their clientele with a larger tab for
reserve/listing fee percentages every time the muckey-mucks want bigger
helpings of cash, will really cost them. And it obviously has already
cost them....

To all the "ethics" stewards and their torches: Remember ebay is just
another honkin' web-host service, like the biggest usenet/search host
(which is probably more data intensive than ebay) and to the end user,
most are free. You see those stupid ad banners you see atop each search
page? They already paid for your listing and FVF....

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