Deadlord39 wrote:Fuck lowering mortgages. I refuse to pay for someone who was too stupid or greedy to get a proper mortgage. And I am not paying a dime more in taxes, neither town, state, nor federal.
Plaag wrote:Canada erects a fence along its border, but still illegal Americans find ways across ShaneG.
bclarkie wrote:That doesn't even take into consideration how much it might cost you in property value decreases from foreclosed homes in your area.
jasonw1239 wrote:The bad guys in the mortgage scenario seems to be the nice people that approved the loans and then patted themselves on the back with billions of dollars in bonuses over the last two decades.
mbassoc2003 wrote:A little eBay advice needed here from all you guys with more experience...A guy sets up a brand new eBay account, and immediately buys an expensive item from me...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110300404250&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT&ih=001The PayPal account is also listed as being unverified. Now eBay have already hit me for their Final Valuation fee, and if I pull out of the transaction I lose money to eBay. And if I ship the item I stand to lose a lot more.The only solution I can see is to refund the buyer his money less the final valuation fees and complete the refund if and when eBay provide a refund to my account.There is no way of stopping zero rated buyers or unverified buyers at all, is there?And I don't suppose anyone here lived is Redondo Beach, CA, do they?
Badmike wrote:True. I do believe people were swindled, but cmon. If someone is only asking for $100 down and payments of $1000 a month on a $250,000 home, you need to have the functioning brain power to realize something is up. Because of their stupidity and the bank and mortgage companies greed I am going to be paying the bill for this.Mike B.
mordrin wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:There is no way of stopping zero rated buyers or unverified buyers at all, is there?I don't sell, so I don't know if there's a special eBay rule about it, but I don't think so.
mbassoc2003 wrote:There is no way of stopping zero rated buyers or unverified buyers at all, is there?
JohnGaunt wrote:I don't know how old mba's posting is, but eBay sellers can set certain thresholds for buyers:. . . http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/buyer-requirements.html
Badmike wrote:You can only block buyer's with negative ratings, which is pretty darn close to useless since Sellers can no longer leave negs. Plus, the buyer would have to actually have a negative rating (like , -1) to fall under the guidelines. Ebay's business is to make sure there are no blocked buyers, since that only strangles their cash flow.
JohnGaunt wrote:*blink*Well, that's useless. And the minimum thresholds are rather high for two of the other options ("Buyers with Unpaid Item strikes", "Buyers with policy violation reports"). . . http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... references
megnelwil wrote:"From 12th March 2009, private sellers pay no Insertion Fee per item that they list, providing they list the item using the auction format in an eligible category and set a starting price of 99p or less. Please note that we've also revised Final Value Fees. We've simplified the previous tiered structure and Final Value Fees for private sellers are now 10% of the final selling price, up to a maximum of £40."10% FVF PLUS Paypal fees? And you get a 10p (hmmm, wasn't it 5p?) saving in return. Good, I suppose, if you have a ton of junk that you can keep re-listing until it shifts. But another fee increase if you usually start off items at 99p targetted in the FV £10-20 range, such as typical RPG material. And straightforward robbery if you don't get the free insert because you start items at higher than 99p.Serious question - when was the last time eBay gave something back to its customers? I don't mean 'free' gallery images in return for fee hikes higher than the 15p it used to cost for an image, I mean a real benefit to offset their voracious demand for ever higher fees? And they've even buggered the interface and the search tools to add insult to injury. Monopolies are never healthy.
Badmike wrote:Ebay just came out with their July Seller's update that details all the changes they will make in the next year or so...Holy Crap! In a good way (if you are a seller)...Reading through the entire missive, it is a massive rejection of everything that has been done the last two years. The rollbacks on policies are incredible; I kept thinking to myself as I read them "Ebay is in some deep, deep doo-doo.". The huge slice Amazon has taken out of the market and out of Ebay's profits is very, very obvious in the types of concessions Ebay is now giving sellers. Let's just say if you have a measly 100 sales a year, and $3000 in sales, you are eligible for Powerseller status, which has been lowered. Reading through the info, by their standards, I will be eligible for the highest discounts and status once these changes roll around in April (and I've done little or nothing the last few months, and don't expect to change anything in the next few months, to make my listings more "buyer friendly". Fuck them)Ebay is discontinuing several worthless selling features.Ebay is giving non-paying buyers a kick in the nuts by allowing the seller to give the buyer a certain amount of time to pay...after this time, a non-paying buyer status is automatically entered and the buyer is NOT allowed to give feedback to the seller....Buyers are given only 4 days to pay...Resolutions take only 30 days now, not 60 days, and the process does NOT require back and forth...Reading through the changes, it becomes painfully obvious that Ebay has failed in their infamous 2008 directives and is futilely attempting to return to the "golden age" by rolling back customer-friendly policies.Sadly, it is too little to late and I predict little changes in the fortunes of ebay....[url]http://pages.ebay.com/sell/July2009Upda ... #whatisupi[/url]Mike B.
