"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several: foolish vanity,  ignorance of what is due to others, indolence,  stupidity, distraction of thought, contempt of others, and jealousy" - Jean De La Bruyere

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You Call Me The DRAMA QUEEN...

Your So Full Of SH**!

Last night I posted a question on DOND in regards to a transaction, that was made during a past game...That game was held on July 14, 2008...I also in that same round of questions NEVER said her name or called her out at anyone time, that I asked people their opinions...

SHE is the one who came out yelling and screaming profanities at me...I did not BASH her, like everyone says I did...But in the end I sure was the one called the BULLY...Yet people still BELIEVE her and take her total word for it, like she is a SAINT or something...It amazes me and makes me sick at the same time...

She also CLAIMS that it hasnt been more than two weeks, since my purchase and I also didnt pay her before she supposedly left for vacation...When in fact I  Paid on Jul-14-08 via PayPal...That was the same day, that I bought from another seller and paid them at the same time...See the auction here, that I made a purchase from her: Goats Milk and Shea Butter Loves Spell - eBay (item 220257554495 end time Jul-14-08 23:09:47 PDT)...

So lets think about this for a minute...If she was on vacation on July 14, 2008...Why did she PLAY the DOND game on that Monday night?...It puzzles me, why would someone sell an item if they are on "vacation"...Then she choose to NEVER send it to me?...

I waited very patiently, till I received an email from her (10 days AFTER my purchase) on July 24, 2008...I got an email from her saying to the effect of: "Hi healthy I am sorry about the soaps, I am sending them today. I went on vacation and didnt havee any products or computer with me. I am shipping today, and I will add another bar....because it took so long. Thanks so much"...

But those soap(s) STILL did not get shipped on that day she PROMISED to ship them...They also didnt get shipped until July 30, 2008...AFTER I had filed a paypal dispute...Then we begin to wonder what the hell is going on with a seller, when they start neglecting their responsibilities...If someone has a SERIOUS family emergency...I would completely understand and be very forgiving...

But, when I get an email like the one I received above, one begins to really wonder, if this "family emergency" is true...It would have been nice to get a short one liner email saying:"I have a serious family emergency, your items are going to be late, I am sorry"...But did that happen?...NO it did NOT!...

If I had a serious family emergency or was going on vacation...Believe me that I would NOT be playing DOND, I also would NOT be selling any items,  that I could'nt send to the person buying them...I also would prepare things ahead of time just in case, this might have happened...I also replied back to her on the very same day...She NEVER replied back to me...She only answered the Paypal dispute that I started yesterday...But, I am still the bully?

There was also a few other bloggers who had a issues with her...So the problems were not just mine...So before you throw stones at me...Read and know ALL the facts first...The one you are defending might NOT be so "saintly" after all...JMHO from experience...

I have had this SAME type of crap happen to me before with another "dearly & beloved" blogger...Things are NOT always as they seem to be people...Don't be fooled by nice smiles and good looks...Be aware and dont get screwed...

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Avon Collectible Milk Glass Lady Frog -- 315carolg

Standoff by Sandra Brown (2000) -- heavenlyitems

Baseball Tarot Cards New -- berkshirebooksnstuff

Wooden Bead 18 In Necklace Dangle Pierced Earrings Set -- darleen1956

Om SACRED SYMBOL EARRINGS fairtrade handcrafted New FS! -- stickywingz

RHINESTONE balloons GET WELL tietack pin PENNY ANTE -- sweetstuff

New M & M I Know My Colors Lift Learn Kids Wood Puzzle -- treasurechase

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Each year, between 140 and 160 officers are killed in the line of duty and their families and co-workers are left to cope with the tragic loss. C.O.P.S. provides resources to help them rebuild their shattered lives. There is no membership fee to join C.O.P.S., for the price paid is already too high. C.O.P.S. was organized in 1984 with 110 members.

Today C.O.P.S. membership is over 15,000 families. Members include spouses, children, parents, siblings, significant others, and affected co-workers of officers killed in the line of duty according to Federal government criteria.

Please Visit: www.nationalcops.org & www.NLEOMF.com

eBays' Ultimate Plan...Are You Ready?

This is a very important read, regarding eBay and their ulterior motives...This is NOT made up...This was a real post made by an former eBay employee...It was deleted twice by the PINKS...You MUST read it!

clerocks (1517) Jun-24-08 14:02 PDT  #22 of 40

FROM A FORMER EBAY EMPLOYEE: UNBELIEVEABLE!!

I posted this at the feedback forum at eBay, but it was killed by staff less than a minute later. I should have known. My ID will be toast soon anyway. This was the only other place I thought where my statement might have an impact. Do with it what you will.

After Chicago, my only desire is to be heard.

There will be those who will not believe me and I sympathize. I wish
the facts were fiction but to deny what I know would be to live in a
fairyland of make-believe. I understand that the bulk of this
“manifesto” reveals a plot so against the spirit of eBay that it will
be dismissed as lie. So be it. I cannot force the world to accept it.
All I can do is state the truth as I know it and leave it to you and
to your common sense and experience to judge.

The deck is stacked against me. Aside from the natural resistance to believe I know that the boards are stocked with eBay’s tools. Their goal will be to discredit me. I will be accused of being a “disgruntled”, “paranoid”, and “emotional” seller.

Their words will be specially chosen for effect. That is part of the function of the tools and I am not fazed by it. However, to protect my own identity within the corporation, I cannot be too specific lest the details single me out to the powers that be. What I intend to reveal is common knowledge to many in the management division behind the scenes.

By the way, the tools are not only the mouthpieces that promote the
policies. The psychological tactics employed by the powers that be are far deeper and grander than that. The subtlety of the method is remarkable.

The tools come in a wide range of flavors with their own, individual “characteristic” rhetoric. From those who are “for” the policy - and spread various degrees of hostility toward the sellers - to those who are “against” the change - and spread panic and further the divide with the buyers. Both serve the same exact purpose: a manipulation designed to remove the more involved and savvy small to large sellers who will not fit into eBay’s future business plan.

First, let me correct the record regarding the concept of sellers
extorting positive feedback. While the violation was known to happen, the activity amounted to less than a tenth of a percent of the yearly transactions. Further, it involved sellers whose feedback percentages were below 80%. The absolute majority of sellers did not engage in such practices. Nevertheless, the powers that be could not resist the fact that promoting this notion of feedback extortion as a wide-spread phenomenon would be the perfect cover with which to hide the true intentions of the policy.

The powers that be want to transform eBay into an overstock warehouse venue. A kind of outlet store for the internet much like a cheaper and streamlined version of Amazon. From a strictly business point of view, given the size of eBay and the growing costs of doing business, it makes a certain kind of sense to shift gears.

Think about it: when eBay started, sellers were about rare and unique items but here and now the majority of items are common, used counterparts of what can be found new online at retail sites. Truly rare and unique items are sold at real auctions; the “stuff in your attic” isn’t glamorous enough and won’t keep eBay afloat any longer.

The trend away from the rare and unique to the big box retailer is not new. Several years ago the powers that be noticed that the big
“powersellers” were simply listing items that existed in their retail
stores or inventories. Thus the concept of “buy it now”, “best offer”, and “eBay stores” were created. It was the nascent stage of the plan yet to be. Little by little, without the population noticing, the mechanisms required to replicate the average retail storefront were already in place - and with its rise came the slow, steady downfall of the auction format.

Yet outright pursuit of a retail venue would have led to a major
problem that at the time could not have been surmounted. The vast
majority of people, on and off line, know eBay as precisely the place
for auctions of rare and unique items. The sellers and buyers held
onto that perception too but in truth their opinion even involvement
in new and improved version of eBay is irrelevant by a certain
Machiavellian calculation made by the powers that be. As part of the plan, eBay calculated thus: even if they lost the sellers as part of the change, the buyers will be coming back to buy regardless of who or what operated within the retail-outlet venue.

No, it was the stock holders who the powers that be feared.

Only the stockholders had the power to change the direction set forth by the CEO and the board. So it became imperative to change the equation. Part of the plan is to devalue the stock gradually so that investors merely dumped the stock as opposed to wanting managerial change ala Yahoo. Then to buy back the stock at lower cost and to such a volume that no rebellion against the powers that be were possible.

By the end of July that phase of the plan will be successful and their rest of the plan will be revealed without fear of backlash from those who otherwise would have had the power to pull eBay back from the brink. Indeed, if you believe the current changes are obvious signals that small sellers are not wanted - be prepared - you have seen nothing yet.

So far what have they done?

All they have managed to do is silence a seller’s ability to warn others about buyers (half of the purpose behind the original idea of feedback), burden you with higher and higher fees, dangle “treats” like discounts while setting the bar of eligibility so high that the rewards cannot be reached. and, by the way PayPal deals with “complaints” leave you vulnerable to fraud.

What if worse was yet to come?

They know if you do not feel safe that you will not use eBay. The
changes that have been enacted only eliminates the small sellers.
Meanwhile they want to eradicate the mid-sized seller too. And they want to ensure that both do not return.

For the mid-sized seller the DSR became the tool of choice. The powers that be raised the level of what is a good seller artificially high. No manipulation is required; they know exactly the effect of the policy. This is why buyers are told that 4 is a good score and sellers are told that 4.9 yields discounts and higher listing placements. As long as that fractured point of view exists, eBay does not need to interfere with the DSR as has been suggested, the buyers will be killing the sellers naturally.

By August there will be no pretense and the intentions of the new and improved eBay will be clear. The following is only a partial list of the rules that will be imposed. It comes from a memo that circulated within my corner of the managerial department the week before Chicago. I cannot be too specific about certain items and I cannot reveal details of the latest additions without endangering my anonymity.

1) Neutrals will be converted to negatives complete with red icons and reduced feedback scores. Afterward neutrals will not be offered as a choice of feedback.

2) The entire process of feedback will be automated. Buyers and
sellers will chose standard feedback from a list. For sellers this
operation will be performed automatically upon the buyer winning. For buyers there will be an extra free line with which to add a few
comments about the seller without restriction to content. Replies will not be allowed.

3) The implementation of a stricter rules regarding shipping. From the boxes, packing, labels and tapes to where you can buy postage. Orders have been placed for prototypes of “eBay” boxes. UPS and FedEx will be instructed not to accept “eBay” merchandise if it’s not inside “eBay” boxing. They will know, of course, because when sellers buy the “eBay” postage from the “eBay” source, a detailed list of contents with item numbers will be available to the shippers upon scanning a bar code. As for those who continue to use USPS, another level of quality control will be implemented - buyers will be asked, upon confirmation of delivery, if the seller used “eBay” standard shipping items. Naturally, no verification of the buyer’s truthfulness will be attempted, and continued ‘infractions’ will result in suspension. eBay will have other ways to check if a seller is not using the “eBay” equipment - as they will be required to buy at cost the supplies immediately after items are listed. (This is such a large scale operation behind the scenes that I feel comfortable sharing as much of it as I know.)

4) Sales taxes will be included automatically; shipping cost and sales taxes will be used to determined FVF.

5) Item descriptions will be “standardized” with templates which
include the posting of a new, universal return policy. Only yearly
subscribers to the retail-outlet venue can opt out of these universal return policies but even they cannot alter the template structures being devised.

6) Strikes against buyers will be eliminated as the whole concept of a buyer and bidding will be altered. FVF will be calculated when payment is submitted.

7) Time to Close will be eliminated entirely. Best Match will be the
non-alterable default. Best Match is a system that caters to the needs of shoppers not bidders.

8) Placement within Best Match will be determined by several factors, the most important of which will be the extra display features added onto the listing.

9) DSRs can be removed by retailers and powersellers who pay a certain yearly fee.

10) The end play itself which consists of four phases:

A) the main focus shifts to retail sellers whose fees are on a per
listing basis. B) stores will be replaced by a classified section, fees will be based on yearly subscriptions and FVFs. C) occasional auctions will be conducted for unique items (celebrity auctions, items that have been featured on the news, etc.)  and D) total elimination of auctions for regular sellers

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There much more to this post...You can find it below in the comments section...Please read and heed this info...They do NOT want small, medium or even large sellers anymore...Get out while you can...There is a really bad STORM coming to eBay...Find cover...

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Each year, between 140 and 160 officers are killed in the line of duty and their families and co-workers are left to cope with the tragic loss. C.O.P.S. provides resources to help them rebuild their shattered lives. There is no membership fee to join C.O.P.S., for the price paid is already too high. C.O.P.S. was organized in 1984 with 110 members.

Today C.O.P.S. membership is over 15,000 families. Members include spouses, children, parents, siblings, significant others, and affected co-workers of officers killed in the line of duty according to Federal government criteria.

Please Visit: www.nationalcops.org & www.NLEOMF.com

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Each week a bunch of bloggers get together on TUESDAY, to meet on Rooster613's blog to post a sale starting at a penny. We then repost the list and otherwise promote each others' "Penny Ante" auctions and sales throughout the week...

Get Well Greeting Card Polar Bear Penny Ante -- luvyacards-0

3 blue Rhinestone faceted bracelets jewelry new lot -- bengaltiger55

lot of 2 Dora & Pokemon Kites BNFS -- lucky3boyz

1987 Centennial Evangelical Free Church mission plate -- rooster613

Spiced Tea Mug Mat and English Breakfast Tea NEW -- caldonia_maggie

~♥~ PINK GLASS BEAD PIERCED EARRINGS ~ SILVERPLATED ~♥~ -- tresjoliecafe

HEATING PAD OR COLD PACK HERBAL LAVENDER NECK WRAP -- jasonandalaine

Decorative Craft Paint Brushes Set Of 7 New MIP -- sweet_rose_treasures

Handbag - Tan W/Brown Trim - NWOT -- barb7895

FRANKLIN MINT " AMERICAN EAGLE" PLATE PENNY ANTE!!! -- queenie71

BIG RED MAGNETIC BEAUTIFUL LIPS..FOR MY PENNY ANTY with FREE SHIPPING! -- serrebro

Lemongrass & Eucalyptus Goat's Milk Soaps 1.1 lbs -- janice4518

Used 8 MB PlayStation 2 Memory Card by Sony -- lejones.304

Vintage DUKES OF HAZZARD General PENNY ANTE GAME -- ramblunrose

10 assorted Homemade Soaps ~Penny Ante~ -- kandjsmom04

Avon Collectible Milk Glass Lady Frog -- 315carolg

Standoff by Sandra Brown (2000) -- heavenlyitems

Baseball Tarot Cards New -- berkshirebooksnstuff

Wooden Bead 18 In Necklace Dangle Pierced Earrings Set -- darleen1956

Om SACRED SYMBOL EARRINGS fairtrade handcrafted New FS! -- stickywingz

RHINESTONE balloons GET WELL tietack pin PENNY ANTE -- sweetstuff

New M & M I Know My Colors Lift Learn Kids Wood Puzzle -- treasurechase

Lot 5 Costume Jewelry Faux Pearl Necklaces Bracelets -- bringsavingsintoyourhome

JERKY DIRECT - NATURAL TURKEY JERKY - ORIGINAL - 2 BAGS -- healthyjerky4u

NEW go USA (red,white&blue) auction JTBA Penny Ante -- aswegrow2

OVER $65 WORTH OF COUPONS, FOOD SHAMPOO CLEANING & MORE -- crazy_mooz

SPEEDO SPLASHER GOGGLE KIDS AGES 3-8~PENNY ANTE -- sweetchevyangel

_________________________________________________

Feel free to repost this list on your own blog...The more places it gets posted, the better for our sales!  But be sure people know to go to Rooster's blog for sign-up, so we get all the sales in one place. Be sure to bookmark Rooster's Blog and go there on Tuesdays to find the latest sign-up post for each week's game.  

(The Penny Ante game was invented by a blogger named crazy_mooz. She later passed it on to ladykikiforever, who passed it on to rooster613, the current host.)

My Top 100 Sites List is NEW and really needs more FREE Advertisers!...We would so appreciate you joining us!...You can advertise your websites, eBay stores and so much more!...

Click the bright pink button above and sign up with us today....It only takes a few minutes of your time and is fast, easy, also secure....We hope to see you soon! 

All of these wonderful top site lists will drive TONS of needed traffic, to your website(s)...Why pay someone to advertise your websites, when you can do it yourself and for FREE!

Each year, between 140 and 160 officers are killed in the line of duty and their families and co-workers are left to cope with the tragic loss. C.O.P.S. provides resources to help them rebuild their shattered lives. There is no membership fee to join C.O.P.S., for the price paid is already too high. C.O.P.S. was organized in 1984 with 110 members.

Today C.O.P.S. membership is over 15,000 families. Members include spouses, children, parents, siblings, significant others, and affected co-workers of officers killed in the line of duty according to Federal government criteria.

Please Visit: www.nationalcops.org & www.NLEOMF.com

Hosted this week (July 22-29) by rooster613 --WELCOME!!!

Each week a bunch of bloggers get together on TUESDAY, to meet on Rooster613's blog to post a sale starting at a penny. We then repost the list and otherwise promote each others' "Penny Ante" auctions and sales throughout the week...

Get Well Greeting Card Polar Bear Penny Ante -- luvyacards-0

3 blue Rhinestone faceted bracelets jewelry new lot -- bengaltiger55

lot of 2 Dora & Pokemon Kites BNFS -- lucky3boyz

1987 Centennial Evangelical Free Church mission plate -- rooster613

Spiced Tea Mug Mat and English Breakfast Tea NEW -- caldonia_maggie

~♥~ PINK GLASS BEAD PIERCED EARRINGS ~ SILVERPLATED ~♥~ -- tresjoliecafe

HEATING PAD OR COLD PACK HERBAL LAVENDER NECK WRAP -- jasonandalaine

Decorative Craft Paint Brushes Set Of 7 New MIP -- sweet_rose_treasures

Handbag - Tan W/Brown Trim - NWOT -- barb7895

FRANKLIN MINT " AMERICAN EAGLE" PLATE PENNY ANTE!!! -- queenie71

BIG RED MAGNETIC BEAUTIFUL LIPS..FOR MY PENNY ANTY with FREE SHIPPING! -- serrebro