Quote:Gosh, have I ever been putting my foot in my mouth lately. I was NOT slamming those that do frequent chat boards. I just meant there are probably more that don't, then do.
I wasn't taking it as slamming Anita. :
In the world of fictitious IDs on chat boards we may never know
how many are really successful online sellers or not.
Just like at feebay's boards. We will never know
for sure how many of those rah rah types that always seem to elude to others
that feebay is the "only game in town", are really successful sellers
at ebay either.
Now with ebay, what puzzles me is I see some of the rah rah types
that do show their ID's usually have pages and pages of "stuff" just
sitting there and I even researched a few only to find out they are upside down.
Now in the new propaganda (buzz marketing) world that makes
me think that "some" of those over there or anywhere for that matter
who "claim" to be so successful,
may be in fact be dummy accounts created just to keep up the illusion.
Or agents of whatever product / service just trying to hype up or
establish the illusion of success.
Common sense tells me you can't be listing 400 or 1000 items on
ebay and paying all those fees and actually making a
living doing it.
Especially if you take a good look at the sell through of many of them.
That can also be said about all the smaller auction sites as well or
even investment type chat boards.
I think many if not all, tend to have agents hyping their sites /services
or stocks for obvious reasons too.
One interesting thing to me is that the blog world seems to be some big craze
and it's funny how all those successful onliners have time to do that.
Now for me, I do have an agenda.
And that is to continue to chip away at sites like ebay that aggregate sellers
and attempt to pull eyeballs away from the rest of us who are on the net
to make a living and I resent their use of scare tactics to do so.
I take it personal when ebay states to everyone
in EVERY email they generate it is UNSAFE to buy off ebay
or to use other methods of payment other than their own criminal outfit PayPal.
I do smile every time I see that FRAUD is the most rampant
on the same site that tells everyone how unsafe other sites or sellers are.
Or that PP chargebacks are the highest of any company online and grew by 150%
in just one year.
To me it's like the mom and pops against the Wal-Marts of the world who
want to dominate every sector of retail on the planet and go to great lengths
trying to brainwash the public into thinking that they are the only game in town.
If we sit back and do nothing.
They just may do that and retake their market share.
As I recall we all were shaking up that
same dominance of the retail world just a few short years ago.
Oh yea and as BBH eluded about all the endless stream of $195
phpprobid auction crap sites with no buyers.
I would NOT surprise me one bit to find out that half of those
are dummy sites created with funds right out of ebay's coffers.
