IBM on a downward spiral?

[Sy Ali]

On 5/14/06, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > eBay was mentioned.. umm.  What a terrible experience that crap has
> > become.
>
> My experiences with ebay and the experiences of some of my friends have
> been pretty positive. Can you be more specific, or is this just a drive-by
> shooting at the Internet Garage Sale? ;)

* Some sellers like to hide their $20 "handling" markup.
* Some item descriptions are very vague.  It's also quite annoying to
need to ask about shipping policies.
* Shipping can add horrific hidden costs.
* UPS sucks.

* Even a repitable seller (store) can suddenly clam up, fail to ship
for no reason, lie in emails and force a paypal refund.

* I'm being spammed by eBay and they refuse to acknowledge it.  I
un-subscribed (which is a very very annoying thing to figure out) from
all their services and still my webmail-equivalent gets spammed.

Bleh.

Oh, and UPS sucks.
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