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EBay Letting Fraud Slide?
joebagodonuts writes "MSNBC has an article charging that EBay's tough talk on fraud is just that. Talk." To a certain extent, I can understand the problem of having hundreds of thousands of auctions, and not being able to adequately police them - but ignoring fraud, when you have a policy stating otherwise is a Bad Thing.
First ghost!
One time when I was bored, I created a false account with e-bay and put a maximum bid of $100000.01 on a John Tesh CD. The address I put for this was a false one supposed to be in New York city. Needless to say my false account won the auction and owned the seller's nerves. I was never caught (don't tell anybody :)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci-Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. Apparently he was trying to get a box of fish sticks out of a large deep freeze unit in his basement and fell in, where he was subsequently trapped and suffocated to death. I'm sure he will be missed by the Slashdot community - even if you didn't enjoy his work, chances are you watched his nationally-syndicated television program "The Stephen King Nature Hour." Truly an American icon.
MSNBC is reporting that Microsoft will enter in the online auction business next month and it will have super special security guaranteeing no fraud!
Okay, so I made that up.
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everyone here realizes what's going on with Ebay and how they're no different from other big corporations who do the same thing. Have you ever seen a corporation actually CARE about one customer or a small group who were wronged in some way? it's all about the almighty dollar, which is really sad that our country is like that by now. Just thank years of unbelievably ridiculous capitalism gone even more wrong.