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Re: Another ebay scammer
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lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 04:28:53 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
An email to a bidder with the S@H phone number is bid siphoning under
eBay TOS.
And eBay TOS applies to you whether you are registered as a bidder or
seller or not.
(it applies as of the moment you view the first eBay page, your viewing
is
considered acceptance)

I know you've said you feel constrained to abide by that ridiculous
interpretation of the TOS, especially since you wish to continue to
bid on things at eBay.  But do you honestly think people who have no
desire to register or use eBay are truly bound by their TOS simply
by viewing the pages?

What if I setup a TOS at BRICKS that includes something about
sending me all gray macaroni bricks in your posession, and make it
apply as of the first moment you view the front page?  Maybe that's
more ridiculous but it seems like the same thing to me.

I do not accept that providing unsuspecting bidders with more
information that eBay or the seller is willing to provide them is
bid siphoning, nor do I accept that I am bound to refrain from such
action.  If renouncing my eBay membership is what it takes for some
to feel comfortable with me doing that, so be it.  Let's see how to
do that...

Well, I just spent 20 minutes looking through eBay and didn't find a
way to do it.  Oh well, I'll just agree not to use it anymore.



--
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  Re: Another ebay scammer
 
(...) There is a difference here. Your proposed TOS is saying that since you've visited us, you must pay. It would be like a store saying that now that you've come in the door, you must pay us. There is no opportunity to read to the contract before (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)

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  Re: Another ebay scammer
 
(...) An email to a bidder with the S@H phone number is bid siphoning under eBay TOS. And eBay TOS applies to you whether you are registered as a bidder or seller or not. (it applies as of the moment you view the first eBay page, your viewing is (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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