 | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) OK, that's fair. (...) Bizarre. So what's to stop someone from creating a one-time foofoo bidding account on eBay to get themselves out of a mess like that? --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) That won't help much, if you notice in time, the only black mark you can get is the fact that you retracted a bid. The danger in creating the fake account is that you are legally tied to it (or you used (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Christopher Lindsey said earlier today that he had "just created a throw-away account"[1] using a free email address and that the registration page at eBay said you don't need a credit card. Are there two types of eBay accounts?? --Todd [1] (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) Hmm, interesting. They were claiming you needed to use a credit card now. So much for that... They are seriously getting to the point of needing a good kick in the pants. They really aren't very friendly (though more friendly to sellers, so (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | (...) They *do* require a credit card if you try to sell something (so that they can auto-bill you for their share), but not if you're just going to bid... I also wanted to clarify that this throw-away account was created just for testing purposes; (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) as (...) I thought they had changed it, perhaps it is one of the things to come in 2Q2000 (i.e. real soon now). Frank (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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