Comments on: eBay Statistics

By: eBuster

eBuster — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:05:39 +0000

eBay may have had 200m- 233m registered members since 1995 but many have long since gone and since I have been harvesting eBay data for a year now by trawling sales and feedback it has now become very slow in picking out new members and the software achieves an average hit ration over 99% which suggest my quest is coming to an end and if you take into account the number of accounts used for shill bidding or selling feedback then this more than takes care of the 1% that will always be missing.

With terabytes of compressed data I am quite able to prove the actual number of active members is quite substantially below the number being pushed around by gatekeepers sites all over the internet and I welcome a peer review of this data before going public with my findings after considering the legal implications in relation to data that is in the public domain anyway and having witnessed eBays dirty tricks department work at first hand.

Please drop by eBuster,co,uk if you have the technical skills and inclination to peer review the results.

Now who was it that said ‘the truth will set you free’

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By: JM

JM — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:11:12 +0000

Id agree about the paypal coments, they have closed some of my accounts without real evidence or reason when I used to be an ebay trader. a couple of awkward customers insisted they never received goods I sent several times and therefore my account was shut and money frozen for 1 year. Now im married and my name has changed and they wont change the account name to allow me to withdraw the money. Paypal are a law unto themselves and dont just whatever they feel. They take ages to respond to emails and dot even answer all the issues. I think they need to be regulated properly – PAYPAL thanks for making my life hell so many times!!!!

By: Golf Books

Golf Books — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:32:18 +0000

Wow..nice list of facts and figures. eBay constantly impresses me. They along with Amazon seem to always be leading the field in new technologies. It’s staggering to think about how much goes on in their databases every minute. The must have some crew managing it.
Selling on eBay though keeps getting tougher. Terrific for consumers as it drives down values but when you think you have a rare book then jump on eBay and see 10 copies all listed for $2.00 ouch…just have to keep working harder.
Bruce

By: chris-5643

chris-5643 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:02:05 +0000

eBay has now made using Paypal mandatory for sellers in the UK. Far from offering protection, Paypal itself is a bigger scam than anything else unsuspecting sellors or vendors are likely to encounter. Paypal have illegally frozen members accounts, fined its customers arbitrarily with no right of reply and have ignored lawsuits against them.

Paypal are effectively an online bank, but are not governed by standard banking rules, and therefore are very difficult to bring to account for the kind of practices that would have any other bank shut down and its directors facing investigation by the authorities.

eBay do not make Paypal mandatory because it’s safer and more secure – they make it mandatory because eBay owns Paypal.

For further information, please google “paypal horror stories”