I used to sell on eBay a lot a few years ago and had an OK experience. A few times I had people try and rip me off, but fortunately the fear of bad feedback killed the transactions before they could continue.
Last week I decided to clear some tech out of my closet, so I [...]
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eBay is Designed to Encourage Ripping Off Sellers
eBay Shipping Costs for Seller 67% Higher than Originally Calculated
I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with eBay for about 8 years now. If found it handy in the past to try and sell more obscure items on eBay than Craigslist when I didn’t think I would find locals that would be willing to pay what I wanted for the item.
In all that time, one [...]
Technicolor Employee Responsible for Gears of War 2 and Fable 2 Leaks
As it turns out one of the ways that games get leaked early to the intertron like Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and that cursed early release of Fallout 3 to BitTorrent networks is by having employees on the inside of the disk-pressing process stealing them.
NEWS FLASH: Local blogger attempts to become BFFs with [...]
TSA Employee Caught Selling $200k of Stolen Items on eBay
It was reported that a Newark Airport TSA agent, Pythias Brown, was caught selling $200,000 worth of stolen personal items from people’s luggage on eBay (seller profile). These weren’t confiscated items that Brown was seller on eBay, these were items like digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices and more that he stole out of bags behind [...]
LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java
This is actually pretty awesome for any of the Java devs out there that are concerned that Java is dying and Ruby/Rails/Flavor-of-the-Month is rising up to replace it… it seems that the huge professional social networking site (no, not MySpace) LinkedIn is actually written in 99% Java except for some in-memory C++ caches that they [...]
Amazon is/was Down
Wow what caused that to happen? Amazon has been down for about 20mins, came back up briefly and is dead again right now around 11:08am PST.
S3 and EC2 both seem to be running fine though, so maybe it’s just the store front? I wonder what caused Amazon to go down that wouldn’t/doesn’t effect eBay or [...]
eBay – Sellers Cannot Give Buyer Feedback
I saw this today when I was directed to the feedback page to leave feedback on the seller that I just bought a Herman Miller Aeron from (great experience). At first it caught me off guard, my gut reaction being something like “Feedback has been limited?! WHAT?!”
but then I thought about it, and remembered a [...]
eBay Buyer, Prison Shower Sex
When you think of eBay feedback, what do you think of? Commending a good seller? Maybe dinging a terrible buyer because they took forever to pay you? Yea… me too, but maybe not this guy:
(Click to see a larger version)
Hot eBay Deals from Typos
This is a slick idea, apparently a service out there called TypoTrawler crawls eBay looking for auctions with typos in them. Why is that important? Good question… it’s important because if an item is misspelled it will have a lot less bids against it and depending on the type of auction, could go for a [...]
eBay Scam Pattern
Note: Pheebay has put up an excellent article to learn how to spot scams on eBay. Great tips.
This is the second time I’ve been scammed on eBay in the last year and it’s starting to drive me a little crazy.
The first time I was a seller and the person won a monitor from me and [...]
More eBay Auctions for Gaming Rig Up
Ok so I just did my 2nd round of tearing down the ultimate gaming rig and the parts are all up on eBay now (the only thing left now is the case):
Mushkin
2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200)
Mushkin
2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200)
Thermaltake CL-P0071 4 in 1 Heatpipe CPU Cooler
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ [...]
Do Not Use eBay's "Host your Own" Picture Hosting Option
Ok so let’s say you have a lot of auctions to post (like I do) and you want to save some money so you decide to use the “Host your Own” picture hosting option. I personally have a SmugMug account and love it, so I’m going to use that instead.
Go ahead and setup your entire [...]
Computer Stuff for Sale on eBay
Well it’s that time of the year, I’m tearing down my ultimate gaming rig that has gone completely ignored for the last 6 months and eBaying it, here are the links:
250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Drive
250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Drive
Xbox 360 Silver Faceplate *NEW*
Dell UltraSharp 2001FP 20.1 inch LCD Monitor
2001 to 2006 [...]
eBay's Developers: 40k Developers, Every 2 Weeks 100k Lines of Code
Did anyone have ANY idea that eBay was this big and complex? 40k developers and every 2 weeks they make a release that represents essentially 100k lines of code and I can’t stand their goddamn site… where is all this code going?
I did a rant a while back telling why I couldn’t stand the site… [...]
eBay: Proof That Consumers Don't Care About Quality
Caution: Venting ahead…
I’ve been eBaying on and off for about 10 years, and as I’ve gotten older and grumpier I’ve noticed more things about more pieces of software and hardware pertaining to usability that have gone from not noticing them, to absolute rage-induced comas brought on by the stupidity required for such design decisions to [...]
For Sale: 15.4" Apple MacBook Pro – 2.0Ghz, 2GB, 7200RPM 100GB HD
I just posted my MacBook Pro to eBay, if this is something you might be interested, please feel free to ask me questions. Here are some pictures of it for quick reference:
More pictures and information are available over at the auction.
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