Sellers who don't mind cheating eBay out of fees generally don't mind cheating the buyer either.
Generalization? Yes. But you're far more likely to get *just* the "item cost" back than you are to get "item cost" + S&H.
Throw enough of a fit and they'll waive the fees...or fix the problem.
I had an issue with Cellular One a few years ago when my (brand new) phone kept dropping calls, with increasing frequency. Soon, I couldn't make a 30-second call without getting dropped. I called up and let them know, and it turned out that they had sold me a *MA (I forget) digital mode phone and then promptly upgraded the network to CDMA, which was the opposite kind of digital and incompatible. I got a new phone out of the deal, free, and they would've let me terminate the contract without the $250 fee if I wanted to because they were not providing the $50/month service I paid for.
This is where something like Drive Cam could be useful. (Currently in use in commerial applications only.) It shows an actual video of the car for 30 seconds prior to impact, and you get a much better picture of what actually happened.
Actually you're incorrect.
You'll be interested to know that Nissans do not have Event Data Recorders. List of cars with EDRs on board, 1994-2006 models. And of course I can't find the article right now, but I read one about black boxes in cars a few years ago and it had a quote from a Nissan exec explaining how the Airbag Deployment module isn't even integrated with the computer. It's a whole separate module. So were a few others. So not only DON'T they record the information, but they CAN'T right now, due to the way the car's set up.
Serious question:
Why should buyers get feedback AT ALL?
Buyer feedback means nothing* - you bid, you win. Sellers aren't sitting there comparing buyers A, B, and C and deciding who to go with.
*Unless it's negative, and you're blocked.
Call me crazy, but I don't think that buying feedback and selling feedback should be on the same system. I've seen too many cases of a person joining eBay, completing 50 or so low-price transactions as a buyer to build up FB (score 50! 100% positive!!) and then putting up a stack of their imaginary XBOX360s and completely SCREWING a lot of people.
Buyers' feedback is a nice back-pat for them, but means NOTHING on eBay, unless they're a really crappy buyer who didn't pay for his first transaction. Seller feedback is what matters, since it can solely make-or-break his business.
So how about, when selling it shows ONLY your selling feedback in the score on the front page? Does that make sense to anyone else? Quite frankly, I don't care if my seller pays for stuff ontime. Does he SELL well? That's what matters.
Yes, the buyers don't realize that paying $10.01 totally screws them if the item is defective and they have to get a refund of a whopping $.01. Total price isn't the only thing that matters.
Often, the TV Guide won't even help. Early one morning, I saw a show listed on TV Guide Channel as "Automobile Stunt Driving" or some such. Enticing! I flipped to the channel. Some guys in racing outfits were talking about stunt driving, maintaining control of your vehicle, as they walked over to a large truck, a closed car-carrier. They approached the back, as they promised to demonstrate some serious stunt driving. Awesome!
They opened the truck...and every car inside was a Pontiac. OK, let's where they're going with this...
They began to unload a Grand Prix. One of the "professional drivers" said,
"Boy...would you look at the back of that car? I have never seen such a sexy design."
At that moment, I knew I was being played. No one, NO ONE, has ever called the Grand Prix sexy without being paid to do so. Especially not the rear of it.
Um..so the point is, you can't depend on the TV guide either. They pitch lots of infomercials as actual shows.
I'm in the middle - knowing a lot of key commands, but arranging my palettes *just so*, so I can do what I want without even looking at them. I know exactly where they are. It's sort of like driving a car, not having to take your eyes off the road to turn up the A/C. Put me on a computer with someone who has moved the palettes around, and I'm completely crippled.
By the way, you notice how some of these habits correlate with the other ones? I have noticed that the palette-movers tend to be creative, illogical, and for some reason, they INSIST on double-clicking every URL on the internet. Drives. Me. F$&#ing. Crazy. Oh, and when you open their PSD, wondering why it is 400mb, it is because it contains 93 layers, is 3x the necessary resolution, and most of the layers are turned off, anyhow.
and * whether they move the palettes around all willy-nilly in Photoshop. These same people, on OS9, are constantly double-clicking that top bar to turn all the windows into bars, and then scattering them randomly across the work area.
If that is how you (general) work, great. But do not make me share a computer with you.
I wish I could mod you up.
I use Google Desktop to try and find an email, and then end up reading the cached version, because the silly thing never reindexes after I've filed the email in a logical folder.
They've raised taxes recently, that could account for it. But I am not sure.
On the other hand, prices won't crash around here, not anytime soon. It's a growth market, people are moving here in droves. It was actually named the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Sep 2005. I saw the value of my house nearly double since buying it.
Well obviously, one was her vacation home. Poor woman. What are the chances of BOTH your homes being destroyed within 2 weeks? Wait, this looks like her again! and so does this! Of course, there may be more scar-cheeked-crooked-nosed ladies around than I realize.
In Utah specifically, your taxes are a percentage of your home's market value. For example, I bought my house 3 years ago, for $64,000, and that first year the tax was something like $300. A year later, the house was valued at $78,000 for tax purposes, and our tax was $360. I just got the bill for this year, the house is valued at $112,000, and our tax is $540. (Not that I'm complaining, in Cincinnati you can pay $1500 tax yearly on a $5000 house.)
Now my understanding of California is that your taxes are locked in at the purchase price of your house....so even when it goes up 5x in value, the taxes don't rise until you sell it. I could be wrong though.
It also wasn't that long ago that the options for "what to eat" did not include Velveeta brand plastic cheese, and fried chicken and pizza drowned in ranch sauce, which was the lunch of choice at my high school.*
Keep in mind that they didn't start pumping food full of HFCS and trans fats until 20-30 years ago.
It's not the genetic code, it's the availability of cheap, processed CRAP for food.
Teenagers are notoriously bad at making pleasure-now-vs.-health-later decisions. There's no reason the parents shouldn't be able to dictate what they eat, especially when the parents are paying for it.
*Why do they go on and on in health class about healthy eating, and then at lunch your choices are
No, type II isn't about sugar either. By why bother, nobodu bothers to read the facts anymore.
Nor, apparently, do they RTFA in the post they're responding to.
Perhaps I should quote the relevant portion for you?
Most striking was the fact that when total energy intake was accounted for, corn syrup was positively associated with type 2 diabetes, while protein and fat were not [32].
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Fair enough, you are right about the diet ones. I had already excluded those in my mind due to the health effects of the synthetic sweeteners. I don't see them as a viable alternative to standard sodas.
Oh, and bother actually reading my post. I already SAID that type 1 was not about sugar - but that Type II is.
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Type II is usually referred to simply as adult-onset diabetes, because until recently, it has been unheard of for young people to develop it. (A high prevalence of childhood obesity is changing this).
This "childhood obesity" could very well be affected by the high consumption of HFCS-sweetened sodas and food products, right? Just TRY finding a soda that doesn't contain it in the US - the only ones I've found are the Italian fruit sodas at Target. And I've found only one brand of bread that's baked sans HFCS - and it's $3/loaf.
You are correct that the diabetes cases which are caused or exacerbated by HFCS are not the same insulin-dependent cases. That doesn't make me hate the corn lobby any less.
This isn't just exclusive to Netflix. Back when I was a member, I liked it precisely because I could let the movies languish on the coffe table - See, I did that with Blockbuster movies too, renting one and not finding the time to watch it in the allotted 5 days. It was *much* cheaper to put off viewing my Netflix movie for a week than it was to rack up $14 at Blockbuster all the time.
Another person who hates Subway, eh? I see a sandwich on the board that looks good - so I order that one. But it's not that easy! Do you want it toasted? What kind of cheese? What kind of bread? Onionspickleslettucetomatoesolivespeppers? Oilsaltpeppervinegar? and on and on...
It stresses me out! "I don't care! I want the picture! Just make it like the picture!!!"
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Sellers who don't mind cheating eBay out of fees generally don't mind cheating the buyer either.
Generalization? Yes. But you're far more likely to get *just* the "item cost" back than you are to get "item cost" + S&H.
Throw enough of a fit and they'll waive the fees...or fix the problem.
I had an issue with Cellular One a few years ago when my (brand new) phone kept dropping calls, with increasing frequency. Soon, I couldn't make a 30-second call without getting dropped.
I called up and let them know, and it turned out that they had sold me a *MA (I forget) digital mode phone and then promptly upgraded the network to CDMA, which was the opposite kind of digital and incompatible. I got a new phone out of the deal, free, and they would've let me terminate the contract without the $250 fee if I wanted to because they were not providing the $50/month service I paid for.
Um, you know that technically you can go right ahead and terminate service since they're not fulfilling their end of the contract, right?
This is where something like Drive Cam could be useful. (Currently in use in commerial applications only.) It shows an actual video of the car for 30 seconds prior to impact, and you get a much better picture of what actually happened.
Actually you're incorrect.
You'll be interested to know that Nissans do not have Event Data Recorders.
List of cars with EDRs on board, 1994-2006 models.
And of course I can't find the article right now, but I read one about black boxes in cars a few years ago and it had a quote from a Nissan exec explaining how the Airbag Deployment module isn't even integrated with the computer. It's a whole separate module. So were a few others. So not only DON'T they record the information, but they CAN'T right now, due to the way the car's set up.
Why should buyers get feedback AT ALL?
Buyer feedback means nothing* - you bid, you win. Sellers aren't sitting there comparing buyers A, B, and C and deciding who to go with.
*Unless it's negative, and you're blocked.
Call me crazy, but I don't think that buying feedback and selling feedback should be on the same system. I've seen too many cases of a person joining eBay, completing 50 or so low-price transactions as a buyer to build up FB (score 50! 100% positive!!) and then putting up a stack of their imaginary XBOX360s and completely SCREWING a lot of people.
Buyers' feedback is a nice back-pat for them, but means NOTHING on eBay, unless they're a really crappy buyer who didn't pay for his first transaction. Seller feedback is what matters, since it can solely make-or-break his business.
So how about, when selling it shows ONLY your selling feedback in the score on the front page? Does that make sense to anyone else? Quite frankly, I don't care if my seller pays for stuff ontime. Does he SELL well? That's what matters.
Yes, the buyers don't realize that paying $10.01 totally screws them if the item is defective and they have to get a refund of a whopping $.01.
Total price isn't the only thing that matters.
Early one morning, I saw a show listed on TV Guide Channel as "Automobile Stunt Driving" or some such. Enticing! I flipped to the channel.
Some guys in racing outfits were talking about stunt driving, maintaining control of your vehicle, as they walked over to a large truck, a closed car-carrier. They approached the back, as they promised to demonstrate some serious stunt driving. Awesome!
They opened the truck...and every car inside was a Pontiac. OK, let's where they're going with this...
They began to unload a Grand Prix. One of the "professional drivers" said,
"Boy...would you look at the back of that car? I have never seen such a sexy design."
At that moment, I knew I was being played. No one, NO ONE, has ever called the Grand Prix sexy without being paid to do so. Especially not the rear of it.
Um..so the point is, you can't depend on the TV guide either. They pitch lots of infomercials as actual shows.
Put me on a computer with someone who has moved the palettes around, and I'm completely crippled.
By the way, you notice how some of these habits correlate with the other ones? I have noticed that the palette-movers tend to be creative, illogical, and for some reason, they INSIST on double-clicking every URL on the internet. Drives. Me. F$&#ing. Crazy. Oh, and when you open their PSD, wondering why it is 400mb, it is because it contains 93 layers, is 3x the necessary resolution, and most of the layers are turned off, anyhow.
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* whether they move the palettes around all willy-nilly in Photoshop. These same people, on OS9, are constantly double-clicking that top bar to turn all the windows into bars, and then scattering them randomly across the work area.
If that is how you (general) work, great. But do not make me share a computer with you.
Sounds like someone has had to share a computer with a palette-mover.....or has come in to 25 new files and folders saved all over the damn desktop.
"Other party" quite often replies to emails before denying the receipt of such, which is handy.
I wish I could mod you up.
I use Google Desktop to try and find an email, and then end up reading the cached version, because the silly thing never reindexes after I've filed the email in a logical folder.
They've raised taxes recently, that could account for it. But I am not sure. On the other hand, prices won't crash around here, not anytime soon. It's a growth market, people are moving here in droves. It was actually named the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Sep 2005. I saw the value of my house nearly double since buying it.
Well obviously, one was her vacation home. Poor woman. What are the chances of BOTH your homes being destroyed within 2 weeks?
Wait, this looks like her again!
and so does this!
Of course, there may be more scar-cheeked-crooked-nosed ladies around than I realize.
Now my understanding of California is that your taxes are locked in at the purchase price of your house....so even when it goes up 5x in value, the taxes don't rise until you sell it. I could be wrong though.
Keep in mind that they didn't start pumping food full of HFCS and trans fats until 20-30 years ago.
It's not the genetic code, it's the availability of cheap, processed CRAP for food.
Teenagers are notoriously bad at making pleasure-now-vs.-health-later decisions. There's no reason the parents shouldn't be able to dictate what they eat, especially when the parents are paying for it.
*Why do they go on and on in health class about healthy eating, and then at lunch your choices are
Nor, apparently, do they RTFA in the post they're responding to.
Perhaps I should quote the relevant portion for you?
Fair enough, you are right about the diet ones. I had already excluded those in my mind due to the health effects of the synthetic sweeteners. I don't see them as a viable alternative to standard sodas.
Oh, and bother actually reading my post. I already SAID that type 1 was not about sugar - but that Type II is.
Just TRY finding a soda that doesn't contain it in the US - the only ones I've found are the Italian fruit sodas at Target. And I've found only one brand of bread that's baked sans HFCS - and it's $3/loaf.
You are correct that the diabetes cases which are caused or exacerbated by HFCS are not the same insulin-dependent cases. That doesn't make me hate the corn lobby any less.
Seriously though, this is dumb. That whole summary could've been gleaned by browing yesterday's thread at +5.
This isn't just exclusive to Netflix. Back when I was a member, I liked it precisely because I could let the movies languish on the coffe table -
See, I did that with Blockbuster movies too, renting one and not finding the time to watch it in the allotted 5 days. It was *much* cheaper to put off viewing my Netflix movie for a week than it was to rack up $14 at Blockbuster all the time.
Another person who hates Subway, eh?
I see a sandwich on the board that looks good - so I order that one. But it's not that easy!
Do you want it toasted? What kind of cheese? What kind of bread? Onionspickleslettucetomatoesolivespeppers? Oilsaltpeppervinegar? and on and on...
It stresses me out! "I don't care! I want the picture! Just make it like the picture!!!"