posted on April 23, 2007 10:33:51 PM new
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TECH FAILURES, FRAUD, LIES AND LAW SUITS
WELCOME TO EBAY
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ebaY is eliminating the last version of the list your item form on 7
May, even though the new one does not work, is barely compatible with
the Windows platform and reportedly not at all compatible with the MAC
operating system. WebTV users report they can no longer use ebaY at
all, to buy or sell. As always there are more glitches than working
parts.
ebaY has been taking advantage of their sellers again, defrauding them
out of unearned fees. What ebaY has been doing , is relisting sold
items and double listing items. Unless the seller spends the time to
track and catch all these double listings, they are charged for them.
Even when the seller finds the errors, they have to fight with ebaY to
get their listing refunds. ebaY has been known to tell the seller that
it is the seller's fault, so they don't have to refund the fees. This
is a lie, and ebaY is well aware they have a problem. In addition, ebaY
glitches have caused photos to be stripped from listings, forcing the
seller to re-upload them and charging the seller a second time. The
problem in ebaY stores is so bad, we heard from a seller who was told by
his store representative that it was unfixable and he should close his
ebaY stores down. Many of these duplicate listing and relisting sold
items problems seem to stem from the time ebaY changed their listing
numbering system. Charging these unearned fees, caused by ebaY
glitches, is fraud, particularly since ebaY is fully informed that these
problems keep occurring, and even know what is causing it, but won't or
can't fix it.
Nothing has changed on the hijacked account counterfeit front. The
problems have not gone away, and ebaY has done nothing about it, except
to delay even further the indexing of the items of legitimate sellers.
The hijackers, who appear to have full access to ebaY's back end, don't
appear to have any problem getting their items to index immediately,
only the legitimate sellers. ebaY's system remains fully compromised.
ebaY continues to spend more time trying to hide the information than
actually finding a solution, but then they need something to inflate
their profitability numbers.
There are several law suits against ebaY surfacing. One seller filed a
law suit on 20 Feb 07 for Breach of Contract, Breach of Good Faith and
Fair Dealing, Tortious Interference, Conversion, Intentional Infliction
of Emotional Distress, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress,
Libel-Defamation (contempt & ridicule), Libel-Defamation (Imputation of
Dishonesty, Libel-Defamation (Imputation of a Crime). I am sure many
sellers out there who have had their accounts closed without cause, had
ebaY send inflammatory emails to all their bidders, and prevented
sellers access to their accounts to complete transactions already
committed to, feel the same way. TAG will report on this suit as we get
information.
The patent injunction law suit against ebaY will get its day in court on
12 June 2007. US District Court Judge Jerome Friedman set a court date
to decide the petition for an injunction against ebaY to stop ebaY using
Buy It Now. In MercExchange v.
ebaY, a jury found the ebaY guilty of willful infringement in 2003.
Judge Friedman's long-awaited hearing is set for 12 June 2007 at 11:00am
in the Norfolk, Va., US District Court.
At the beginning of April, Michael Malone of Collin County, Texas filed
an antitrust law suit against ebaY for steering buyers and sellers to
use ebaY owned PayPal for payments. Mr Malone filed the suit in federal
court in San Jose, Calif., claiming the company engages in "illegal
tie-in and steering practices" that lead customers to pay above-market
fees for transactions.
In the more bad press department, a program ran on ZDF.DE on 22 April
about ebaY and ebaY power seller/shiller drum-partner. The program will
run again on 25 April.
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/18/0,1872,1020210_idDispatch:5096641,00.html
ebaY reported an 52% increase in profitability this quarter. TAG just
does not see it. ebaY listings and users have decreased, they lost
China, and looks as if they are going down the tubes in the UK. Germany
is not doing well, and the same with the US. Even with PayPal, it is
hard to believe they have really increased profitability that much.
Have we learned nothing from Enron? Who is watching the ebaY hen house?
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posted on April 23, 2007 11:58:48 PM new
Very interesting article, thanks.
I am currently on official vacation from Ebay but still try to keep up.
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posted on April 24, 2007 12:56:14 AM new
THANK YOU Agate!
I have blisters from typing so many error complaints and calling in system problems. I too had noticed many duplicate listings and could not believe I was making that many mistakes but with trying to correct all the other problems I am encountering, I had written the duplicate listings off as my mistake.
I have stopped reporting the problems because it just takes too much time and it seems the problems with eBay are becoming insurmountable.
Just yesterday I had found another problem with Store listings that makes me wonder if buyers can even purchase an item when they do manage to find it.
I have had no sales on items that I would have normally sold 8 to 10 of this month.
Store sellers, check this out:
Try to send your store listings to Fixed Price.
I receive this error on many of them:
[i] These listings cannot be edited, because of following restrictions:
Item #xxxxxx -
The Item Specifics of the above item have been updated. You may want to review the listing before relisting or remove it from the list of items to be relisted.
Please do one of the following:
(No suggestion given!)
To edit different listings, click the Back button. [/i]
These listing all have low hit counts and no sales. I am talking about items I normally sell 5 to 10 of a month! I CAN edit listings one at a time and see no errors in the listing when I do the revision. The error magically disappears when I try send them to Fixed Price again.
I decided to leave the item in the Store and not send them to Fixed Price. Thats right eBay, no extra peanuts for You today! It will be interesting to see if they start selling again.
[ edited by LtRay on Apr 24, 2007 01:03 AM ]
posted on April 24, 2007 03:26:30 AM new
Ist dis ze BAD NEWS?
"Abzocker bei Ebay!
Wie man sich schützen kann
Wer hat nicht schon mal bei Ebay etwas erstanden oder verkauft? 20 Millionen Deutsche pokern bereits online mit. Das Internet-Auktionshaus, das nach nur sieben Jahren einen Umsatz von 1,4 Milliarden Dollar erwirtschaftet, gilt als sicher und zuverlässig. Dennoch gibt es auch hier Abzocker, die Kunden mit Tricks und Manipulationen zu täuschen versuchen. ML Mona Lisa ist einem dieser Fälle für die aktuelle Sendung nachgegangen..."
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posted on April 24, 2007 09:18:34 AM new
Geez, I thought that it was me doing the double listing. I did think that Ebay had a hand in that matter. I have had this happen too frequently lately where an item is sold then a few weeks or months later, it sells again. I know that I only listed it once. When I have to inform the buyer that I had sold this item in the past, a few are reasonable, a few are not. I am waiting for an undeserved negative from one of the unreasonable buyers.
thanks Ebay, once again, you have muck it up.
Why can't you leave it alone?
mama
posted on April 24, 2007 11:25:36 AM new
Nevermind the fact that ebay stock price is about 1/2 of what it was 2 years ago. ebay spends billions buying other dot coms.
posted on April 24, 2007 11:34:04 AM new
LtRay, I don't remember having that problem before, but I got error messages:
* Error:API.BIZ.2191224 on 50 items I'm trying to relist. I believe they were once in my in my store, I sent them to auction a month ago without problem, but now they won't relist to auction.
Edited to add, the error messages came up on the review page of eBay's bulk relister - I went ahead and submitted them all without revision and they appear to have relisted
[ edited by pixiamom on Apr 24, 2007 11:37 AM ]
posted on April 24, 2007 01:10:03 PM new
"problems seem to stem from the time ebaY changed their listing
numbering system."
I guess I missed when this happened. I did notice a while back that the numbers seemed longer than they'd been earlier.
Was there an announcement about it?
I do recall a thread here where people were noticing that all their items had the same 5 or 6 digits at the beginning of the numbers.
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