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May 27, 2006 at 8:55 pm #23247glwParticipant
Just letting off some steam about THOSE TWATS AT EBAY!!!!!
Those stupid fools over at eBay have censored my listing for a Fernandes Revolver Pro electric guitar because they think it’s some kind of fire-arm, and now the listing won’t show up on any searches.
I’ve removed all the offending words (i.e. “Revolver”) but it’s still not working. Does anyone have any tips as to what I could do to fix this? (Yes, I have tried contacting them… Guess what? No reply.)
That listing cost me over £6 in fees. And if I cancel it I still have to pay the fees. I’m absolutely furious about this. Six quid for a listing that nobody can see!
I’m not having a good day today. The telly exploded this afternoon, so now I’m going to have to shell out for a new one.
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June 8, 2006 at 3:52 am #72583lee_UKParticipant
Still very disturbing, give ’em a taster Mike.
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June 7, 2006 at 9:14 am #72554MichaelParticipant
😆
I wasn’t browsing them either Lee, I found it via http://www.museumofhoaxes.com – some folks believed that no real city council could possibly have so many ‘weird’ folk employed. It however, was real. very real.
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June 7, 2006 at 9:09 am #725621bassleftParticipant
A lot of people are jostling for the job of Deputy Prime Minister, why not Mike?
My only worry is that he won’t get the idea of playing croquet at Dorneywood. “Never mind the ****in’ hoops, I’ve just knocked the ****in’ ball into the next county. Eat that, Flintoff! Do I earn six runs?”
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June 6, 2006 at 10:09 pm #72546lee_UKParticipant
Is that all you have to do? look around real UK city council websites?
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June 6, 2006 at 6:21 am #72575MichaelParticipant
if it was the creepy guy or woman, the pics are from a real UK city council website. I’d say a lot of ex circus folk moved there.
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June 5, 2006 at 7:51 pm #72537lee_UKParticipant
When he changed it last night he used a verystrange one just before the Winwood, it was very disturbing, i saw it for about a minute before he got the Winwood uploaded.
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June 5, 2006 at 9:28 am #725561bassleftParticipant
Well, Lee. Mike’s avatar is giving you (Win)wood, now I hope 😆
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June 5, 2006 at 6:40 am #72560lee_UKParticipant
talking of tampons, when are you going to change that great fat tampon of an avatar you have there Mike? it realy does make the stomach churn, and the testicles retract in a wincing sort of way, i much prefer the David Brant one.
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June 5, 2006 at 6:33 am #72585MichaelParticipant
Especially one featuring tampons. Terrorists hijacking tampons. HOLLYWOOD.
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June 5, 2006 at 6:30 am #72550lee_UKParticipant
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Must agree with glw, Lee. It’s not so much “clever Big Brother is watching you”. It’s more like “Thick web trackers will offer you cut-price tampons because you once bought your Mrs a bikini on coverthebits.com”[/quote]
Nothing like a good conspiricy theory to keep you on your toes.
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June 5, 2006 at 6:20 am #72573MichaelParticipant
Maybe a quick paint job of the auction url on the image would help a little. Placed at the bottom of the image on a neat black line or something. Like a CNN news tracker sort of thing.
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June 4, 2006 at 7:58 am #725651bassleftParticipant
I went through the grinding process of reporting Chinese hijackers to eBay (see G-Site posts, passim). It seems that, now, Fleeb puts up a message that we’re not supposed to bid on them. Like, eBay only wants people in SE Asia to be ripped off.
Must agree with glw, Lee. It’s not so much “clever Big Brother is watching you”. It’s more like “Thick web trackers will offer you cut-price tampons because you once bought your Mrs a bikini on coverthebits.com”
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June 3, 2006 at 2:44 am #72578glwParticipant
Blimey, it’s one thing after another with this bloody auction.
I’ve now got FOUR fake Taiwanese auctions ripping off my pictures and description:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=fernandes
Mind you, they’re not too clever copying my PhotoBucket-hosted pictures, as I’ve now added some text to these.
Reported the fakes to EBay – not holding my breath to see if they cancel those auctions though.
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June 2, 2006 at 2:52 am #72548glwParticipant
Actually, it doesn’t really work, does it, because it fails to take into account that you sometimes buy things on behalf of other people or as gifts to other people.
Amazon, for example, are still recommending various children’s books to me because in the past I have bought books for my niece and nephew. They seem to think that I personally read these.
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June 2, 2006 at 2:47 am #72581glwParticipant
In that case I’d buy all sorts of weird shit just to screw with their minds.
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June 1, 2006 at 7:52 pm #72555lee_UKParticipant
Not so ‘Meaningless’.
Your ISP has a record of every IP address that gets allocated to you (knows by your Login name and Password) and the time and date it was allocated, Google knows the rest, its easy for the powers that run the world to find out exactly what you have been up to.
May not mean a lot today, but what about in 10 years time?,in a time when the world is ruled by ID cards? your whole Identity on a chip? why do passports now have barcodes on them? and they get swiped every time you go in and out of the country.
There are already databases that know what groceries you have bought, where you bought them and for how much.
Say in the future everbody was issued with a credit card that also acted as an ID card? every time you made a purchase you use the card, the goverment knows your Med history cos the national health is now fully computerised, every GP has a computer and a router and broadband to the NHS network. You go to purchase a Mars bar and find out you have been blocked from doing so because you are 10lb overweight, and the goverment has decided you could benefit from losing a little? Maybe they caught you accessing a contreversial web site, so as a punishment they stop you from making any tabbaco purcahses for a week?
They could expell you from the system altogether. block your card.
Its all about control of the populous.
Anyone still awake? im probably up for the jump in 10 yrs for typing this out.
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June 1, 2006 at 4:51 pm #72544glwParticipant
That sounds like conspiracy rumour talk to me. IP addresses are pretty meaningless for the domestic user. You rarely get the same one twice.
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June 1, 2006 at 8:01 am #72572lee_UKParticipant
Ebay will soon rule the world along with Sony, Microsoft and Google, do you know Google makes a note of every search you have ever done against your IP address and has been storing that info for the past 5 years?
Why?
Try selling something on Ebay with a description of ‘New World Order’ see if it that lists.
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May 31, 2006 at 6:09 am #72571MichaelParticipant
jeeze their shysters.
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May 30, 2006 at 11:33 pm #72558glwParticipant
I think it was about half a day in the end, but it was still really annoying. Even more annoying was the stupid email I got from them denying that the word “revolver” was the problem (despite the warnings that were flashing up on screen when I was trying to edit my item) and saying that it was normal for items to take over 10 hours to appear.
The moral of this story is never buy a guitar named after anything remotely suspect if you think that one day you’ll be flogging it on eBay.
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May 29, 2006 at 9:44 am #72552MichaelParticipant
haha I thought it was funny. But than, I find crazy frog and the taxi driver on BBC funny.
GLW, did it take them a full day to approve it?
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May 29, 2006 at 8:59 am #725571bassleftParticipant
I know what you’re thinking. Did I list five brightly coloured, short-sleeved shirts or six? In all the excitement, I lost count myself. The question you have to ask yourself is “Do I feel lucky?”
Well, Mike, do you?
(Next week, I shall be doing a sad rendition of Taxi Driver‘s “Are you talking to me?” monologue; given an equally weak prompt 😳 )
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May 29, 2006 at 6:17 am #72584MichaelParticipant
Atleast we know why you couldn’t sell any ofyour Magnum P.I shirts now 1b.
I would have been mega pissed to GLW. It shoes they are automatically filtering for “suspect items,” yet still turn a blind eye at obvuious scams.
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May 29, 2006 at 5:49 am #725511bassleftParticipant
🙄 😆 . They’re clever boys, aren’t they? Must be murder trying to sell Beatles albums. Do you have to call “Revolver” the “R” album? I suppose you could call “Rubber Soul” by the name “R Soul”, in honour of the eBay watchdog.
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May 28, 2006 at 3:14 pm #72542glwParticipant
OK, it’s showing up now… eventually!
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