People like him are the reason people like me don't leave negative feedback. I've never been blatently ripped off but I've had some not-so-great eBay experiences. My response was to simply not leave any feedback at all.
If I leave a neg I'll get a retaliatory neg and then the next time I go to sell something this guy and everyone like him will avoid me like the plague. It sucks. You just can't trust feedback - somebody might have 100% positive and still be a crook but everyone is too afraid to leave him a neg.
That's right. eBay made this worse by adding the auction percentages right there on the listings. People think if the percentages are low then the seller is bad. More often the seller only has half a dozen feedback and one is negative due to a dispute of some sort.
I'm personally afraid to leave negative feedback because people retaliate. I have under 100 positive and don't sell often, but when I do I usually sell expensive stuff, and negatives - even bogus retaliatory crap - will hurt me the next time I go to sell something.
If I see a Buy It Now auction I intend to snipe down the road, I put in the minimum bid to kill the buy now option.
I do the same thing. It bit me in the ass once.
There was a nice 10" touchpanel for sale. I saw it right when it was listed, Buy It Now for $300. The panel was worth $600 easy, but I needed a question answered before I bought it.
So I placed a minimum bid of $1.00 to get the BIN option to go away. After the seller answered my question, I asked if he was still willing to sell it at the BIN price. He wasn't. Said he'd received too many questions and wanted to let the auction play out.
The thing sold for over $550. I should have bought it at $300. Oh well. Thinking back, I could have canceled my bid and BIN would have reappeared since I was the only bidder even after my question was answered. Morally I'm not sure that would have been acceptable, however.
If you buy something crappy at the flea market from Joe, the building's owners aren't the ones you have a problem with. All they did was rent space and maybe some tables to Joe so he could set up and sell his stuff.
No, this is what eBay will claim if you try to use their rules or dispute processes, but they're full of themselves. eBay has a list of rules that people are supposed to abide by. When those rules are broken, eBay routinely slaps offenders (but they don't enforce their rules equally... seems as a seller you can get away with anything, but buyers are nailed and get their accounts suspended all the time). This is far from being a neutral third party. They are actively engaged in their marketplace and claim to have a dispute process that will help you if you get screwed.
They always do a great job of getting the public to buy into the fact that they are just a marketplace, and nothing more.
And they are bastards for it. I got a real steal on an item because the seller had listed it in the wrong place. He then tried to charge me a $15 "handling fee" (not mentioned in his auction) + $20 shipping to make up for the low price. This is a violation of two of eBay's policies (fee avoidance and listing handling charges in your auction), so I of course refused to pay and filed a complaint.
eBay's response? "You can think of us as a classified ad section. You wouldn't complain to the newspaper if you had a dispute with a seller that had advertised there. We're the same way." Followed by, "Oh, by the way, if you don't pay we'll slap you with a NPB alert. Three of those and we'll suspend your account."
It's pure bullshit. They want to have their cake and eat it, too. Either you're a free marketplace or you're not. eBay has established that they are not, as they cancel listings they don't like, they have a whole list of rules, and they slap people that don't play nice. They are nothing like the classified ad section of the newspaper and need to stop pretending that they are, and start enforcing all of their rules equally.
For now, eBay effectively has a license to print money. They don't have to do anything to appease anyone.
That's funny... that's exactly what I pay with Charter Broadband. It was 1500/128 for $80. Then they doubled the speed for free. Then they cut the price in half, all within a month.
Of course, there's a lot of competition here, with DSL and several fixed point-to-point microwave companies popping up. But I'm quite happy with my service.
Yep - people that used to live down the street from me put a big powerful (and illegal) linear amp on their home base station CB. Every time they keyed up I could hear 'em over my computer speakers. I was going to file a complaint but they moved shortly thereafter.
You, on the other hand, could stand to learn a little tolerance. Something you accuse people like me of lacking, but your anti-religious blasphemy tells me it's the other way around.
I'd just sell it. Screw 'em. I doubt such a contract is even legal. "Here's the title. You own this vehicle. You can't sell it."
BS. Like they'd even know you sold the damn thing. What are they going to come check up on you? "Hey, where's the jeep?".. "In the garage.".. "Can I see it?".. "Nope."
I do still notice a fair amount of network delay once the night hours start, but it'll still dial after a few seconds pause.
Huh. I'm with AT&T Wireless and the service is great. No delays at all during night hours. Instead, we get our delays when we call customer service every month due to overbilling.
They're getting better, though. Last time I called the delay was only 3 hours! I'm very excited about this new and improved customer service...
Fine, then what if the time to copy is greater than one half that of the lifespan of the medium?
You still couldn't have written it to the media; writes take many times longer than reads. If your read time is more than half the media's lifespan, your write time will be several times that.
So essentially it's not for sale.:) Considering the best you could reasonably get for the car would be $15k-$20k. That's cool, I understand. I wouldn't pay more than $10k for a Fiero, anyway. For $20k I can buy one hell of a nice DeLorean. I've had my eye on them for awhile now.
At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
This proves exactly how much you don't know about what happened. John did back off. Once he found out drugs were involved, he told the guys - who were undercover FBI agents - "No deal."
Do you know how they responded? They told JZD that if he didn't follow through, they would murder his wife and his children. He didn't know they were FBI agents. He thought they were gangsters, so he cooperated. He even sent letters to his attorney before going to meet with them explaining everything, "in case they kill me." Then he meets them and lo and behold, they're FBI agents.
All of this came out in court. There were statements made by several reputable people that one of the agents in question had bragged about "bringing down someone big... someone like John DeLorean" long before any contact was initially made with him. So our own FBI screws up this guy's life - forever - because someone wants a cheap thrill. And people like you have the gall to come on a public forum 20 years later and spout off about how immoral and awful DeLorean was, without doing any research whatsoever.
*sigh* another clueless/. poster. John DeLorean never sold cocaine. Never even touched it, for that matter. The only time he was anywhere near the vicinity of the stuff was on the day of his arrest: He was brought to a hotel room by FBI agents. Agents who promised him cash financing for his company, then threatened to murder his wife and children when he tried to back out after finding out there were drugs involved. Based on this threat, he was brought to a hotel room, the cocaine was shown to him, and he was subsequently arrested.
The evidence clearly showed entrapment. This wasn't an OJ Simpson where everyone knew the guy was guilty. DeLorean was clearly innocent, and anybody who has bothered to do even basic research on the matter knows that.
DMC failed due to a lot of politial and financial issues. In short, the British government owed him money. He owed them a small fraction of this money back. They demanded the money owed to them while refusing to pay the money owed to him. When he couldn't pay, they put the company into receivership. This is simplified, but you get the point: They screwed DMC over.
The same thing that happens to any other car: The water eventually dries up and the car isn't wet anymore. Why would you even ask such a silly question?
LOL... Another wannabe who doesn't know a damn thing about DeLoreans. A typical car door requires something like 40 inches of space to fully open. The DeLorean's gullwing doors, hinged near the center of the car, only swing out 11 inches.
Next time try some basic research before opening your mouth.
built by a guy with the morals of a weasel, with money extorted from the fine taxpaying folk of Ireland.
This is insightful? The parent is a libelous liar. John DeLorean was an upstanding man. The problems with DMC were not his fault; anyone who has done even the slightest research on the subject knows this.
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People like him are the reason people like me don't leave negative feedback. I've never been blatently ripped off but I've had some not-so-great eBay experiences. My response was to simply not leave any feedback at all.
If I leave a neg I'll get a retaliatory neg and then the next time I go to sell something this guy and everyone like him will avoid me like the plague. It sucks. You just can't trust feedback - somebody might have 100% positive and still be a crook but everyone is too afraid to leave him a neg.
Dude, use Bidpay (auctionpayments.com). They'll charge your credit card and mail the money order to your seller that day.
That's right. eBay made this worse by adding the auction percentages right there on the listings. People think if the percentages are low then the seller is bad. More often the seller only has half a dozen feedback and one is negative due to a dispute of some sort.
I'm personally afraid to leave negative feedback because people retaliate. I have under 100 positive and don't sell often, but when I do I usually sell expensive stuff, and negatives - even bogus retaliatory crap - will hurt me the next time I go to sell something.
If I see a Buy It Now auction I intend to snipe down the road, I put in the minimum bid to kill the buy now option.
I do the same thing. It bit me in the ass once.
There was a nice 10" touchpanel for sale. I saw it right when it was listed, Buy It Now for $300. The panel was worth $600 easy, but I needed a question answered before I bought it.
So I placed a minimum bid of $1.00 to get the BIN option to go away. After the seller answered my question, I asked if he was still willing to sell it at the BIN price. He wasn't. Said he'd received too many questions and wanted to let the auction play out.
The thing sold for over $550. I should have bought it at $300. Oh well. Thinking back, I could have canceled my bid and BIN would have reappeared since I was the only bidder even after my question was answered. Morally I'm not sure that would have been acceptable, however.
If you buy something crappy at the flea market from Joe, the building's owners aren't the ones you have a problem with. All they did was rent space and maybe some tables to Joe so he could set up and sell his stuff.
No, this is what eBay will claim if you try to use their rules or dispute processes, but they're full of themselves. eBay has a list of rules that people are supposed to abide by. When those rules are broken, eBay routinely slaps offenders (but they don't enforce their rules equally... seems as a seller you can get away with anything, but buyers are nailed and get their accounts suspended all the time). This is far from being a neutral third party. They are actively engaged in their marketplace and claim to have a dispute process that will help you if you get screwed.
This is nothing like a flea market.
They always do a great job of getting the public to buy into the fact that they are just a marketplace, and nothing more.
And they are bastards for it. I got a real steal on an item because the seller had listed it in the wrong place. He then tried to charge me a $15 "handling fee" (not mentioned in his auction) + $20 shipping to make up for the low price. This is a violation of two of eBay's policies (fee avoidance and listing handling charges in your auction), so I of course refused to pay and filed a complaint.
eBay's response? "You can think of us as a classified ad section. You wouldn't complain to the newspaper if you had a dispute with a seller that had advertised there. We're the same way." Followed by, "Oh, by the way, if you don't pay we'll slap you with a NPB alert. Three of those and we'll suspend your account."
It's pure bullshit. They want to have their cake and eat it, too. Either you're a free marketplace or you're not. eBay has established that they are not, as they cancel listings they don't like, they have a whole list of rules, and they slap people that don't play nice. They are nothing like the classified ad section of the newspaper and need to stop pretending that they are, and start enforcing all of their rules equally.
For now, eBay effectively has a license to print money. They don't have to do anything to appease anyone.
You can take an oem install on a Dell and format and install using any oem cd with the key on the side of the case and viola! it works just fine.
What works fine? The install, or the viola? Why are we discussing stringed instruments in this thread, anyway?
No crap. What the hell? $290 a month? Do you not live in the US or something?
Let's see:
Phone with basic features & caller ID: $30
Cable modem: $40
Digital TV (I don't subscribe, but if I did): $60
Really, I think the parent is stoned out of his mind. Or he ordered a fractional T1 and doesn't know it.
That, and they give us 3000/256 for $40 a month ;)
That's funny... that's exactly what I pay with Charter Broadband. It was 1500/128 for $80. Then they doubled the speed for free. Then they cut the price in half, all within a month.
Of course, there's a lot of competition here, with DSL and several fixed point-to-point microwave companies popping up. But I'm quite happy with my service.
Dude, you got ripped off. My cable company doubled my speed and cut the price in half.
Yep - people that used to live down the street from me put a big powerful (and illegal) linear amp on their home base station CB. Every time they keyed up I could hear 'em over my computer speakers. I was going to file a complaint but they moved shortly thereafter.
There's nothing wrong with being a Jesus freak.
You, on the other hand, could stand to learn a little tolerance. Something you accuse people like me of lacking, but your anti-religious blasphemy tells me it's the other way around.
I'd just sell it. Screw 'em. I doubt such a contract is even legal. "Here's the title. You own this vehicle. You can't sell it."
.. "In the garage." .. "Can I see it?" .. "Nope."
BS. Like they'd even know you sold the damn thing. What are they going to come check up on you? "Hey, where's the jeep?"
What idiot modded this informative?
.38 (38% tax, rough guess as to what he would have paid in a high tax bracket) = $5,700 in additional taxes.
$15,000 *
I do still notice a fair amount of network delay once the night hours start, but it'll still dial after a few seconds pause.
Huh. I'm with AT&T Wireless and the service is great. No delays at all during night hours. Instead, we get our delays when we call customer service every month due to overbilling.
They're getting better, though. Last time I called the delay was only 3 hours! I'm very excited about this new and improved customer service...
I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking forward to typing in thousands of lines of badly formatted ASCII code.
No, but it beats the hell out of coding the entire project again from memory.
Must be your burner. I burn everything at 24x (max speed of my burner) and can play the discs anywhere. Never had a problem.
Fine, then what if the time to copy is greater than one half that of the lifespan of the medium?
You still couldn't have written it to the media; writes take many times longer than reads. If your read time is more than half the media's lifespan, your write time will be several times that.
So essentially it's not for sale. :) Considering the best you could reasonably get for the car would be $15k-$20k. That's cool, I understand. I wouldn't pay more than $10k for a Fiero, anyway. For $20k I can buy one hell of a nice DeLorean. I've had my eye on them for awhile now.
At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
This proves exactly how much you don't know about what happened. John did back off. Once he found out drugs were involved, he told the guys - who were undercover FBI agents - "No deal."
Do you know how they responded? They told JZD that if he didn't follow through, they would murder his wife and his children. He didn't know they were FBI agents. He thought they were gangsters, so he cooperated. He even sent letters to his attorney before going to meet with them explaining everything, "in case they kill me." Then he meets them and lo and behold, they're FBI agents.
All of this came out in court. There were statements made by several reputable people that one of the agents in question had bragged about "bringing down someone big... someone like John DeLorean" long before any contact was initially made with him. So our own FBI screws up this guy's life - forever - because someone wants a cheap thrill. And people like you have the gall to come on a public forum 20 years later and spout off about how immoral and awful DeLorean was, without doing any research whatsoever.
He's an innocent man. Always has been.
You want to sell that '88 GT? I've been looking for one for awhile.
*sigh* another clueless /. poster. John DeLorean never sold cocaine. Never even touched it, for that matter. The only time he was anywhere near the vicinity of the stuff was on the day of his arrest: He was brought to a hotel room by FBI agents. Agents who promised him cash financing for his company, then threatened to murder his wife and children when he tried to back out after finding out there were drugs involved. Based on this threat, he was brought to a hotel room, the cocaine was shown to him, and he was subsequently arrested.
The evidence clearly showed entrapment. This wasn't an OJ Simpson where everyone knew the guy was guilty. DeLorean was clearly innocent, and anybody who has bothered to do even basic research on the matter knows that.
DMC failed due to a lot of politial and financial issues. In short, the British government owed him money. He owed them a small fraction of this money back. They demanded the money owed to them while refusing to pay the money owed to him. When he couldn't pay, they put the company into receivership. This is simplified, but you get the point: They screwed DMC over.
However, what happens when it gets wet?
The same thing that happens to any other car: The water eventually dries up and the car isn't wet anymore. Why would you even ask such a silly question?
Doors incompatible with 75% of parking spaces
LOL... Another wannabe who doesn't know a damn thing about DeLoreans. A typical car door requires something like 40 inches of space to fully open. The DeLorean's gullwing doors, hinged near the center of the car, only swing out 11 inches.
Next time try some basic research before opening your mouth.
built by a guy with the morals of a weasel, with money extorted from the fine taxpaying folk of Ireland.
This is insightful? The parent is a libelous liar. John DeLorean was an upstanding man. The problems with DMC were not his fault; anyone who has done even the slightest research on the subject knows this.