Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
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12-04-2008, 03:25 PM,
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Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
Dear Sneaky's Career Advice Column For OAI Sellers
Q. Dear Sneaky, I am a Feebay gently soiled children's clothing seller who grosses $750 monthly. I work on my business 40 hours per week and use the money I earn to buy special treats for my family. My kids love french fries! I want to diversify beyond Feebay because they're big bullies and their fees are too high. What would you suggest? A. You're grossing under $5 per hour. Your best alternative to Ebay is a counter job at McDonald's where you'll make over $7 per hour and as an added bonus you'll receive free french fries when you're working. Option number two for you is to stop whining and rewrite your business plan. The one you have is obviously not working. You do have a business plan, don't you??? Q. Dear Sneaky, I sell on Ebay alternatives and grossed $25 last month. I work on my business 10 hours every week and spend 6 hours every day chatting on PSU. I'm currently listing on 5 alternatives and would like to add a few more sites. Which alternatives would you suggest? A. You're grossing under $1 per hour. The average Chinese sweatshop worker earns more than you. Your best alternative is checking yourself into your local mental hospital because you're obviously in need of professional help. Only a complete moron or somebody who flew off the cuckoo's nest and is missing a few screws would willingly work for under $1 per hour unless they live in a 3rd world country where $1 hourly wages are the norm.Â
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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12-04-2008, 05:14 PM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
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12-08-2008, 01:43 AM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
Quote:I sell on Ebay alternatives and grossed $25 last month. $25 would qualify as an alternative powerseller on most rinky dinks. Quote:You're grossing under $1 per hour. PHP Pro Bid would go out of business if sellers ever did the math and figured out how little they were making per hour by listing on these tiny sites. :blinkie:
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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01-01-2009, 04:33 AM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
Hello,
Hey buddy i think online auctions like ebay or ebay alternatives are better option than MC`Donald. Regards, sarah_9 |
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01-01-2009, 06:44 AM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
My plug for MickeyD's: there's less chance of having your identity stolen at McDonald's then there is if you're using an eBay alternative like cybershoppers.org that asks users to register over an unsecure http connection.
Steps to creating an eBay alternative: spend $172, add a crappy logo to the stock PHP Pro Bid, hide the WHOIS with Domains by Proxy, share an IP address with YourHighBid.com,and suddenly a rinky dink alternative to eBay is born....if the only thing buyers were looking for was a logo the site might have a chance. edit: I forgot one of the essential ingredients for any eBay alternative: an owner who is not afraid to lie through their teeth while spewing a line of bullsh.it to prospective users...case in point: Quote:In short, since CyberShoppers' founding it has become one of the world's largest place to buy and sell, a community of hundreds of millions of regular people, small businesses, and even big businesses from all of the seven continents. Millions of items of every kind imaginable, in every condition imaginable, change hands every day on CyberShoppers for prices ranging from one cent to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars (or pounds, or other forms of currency). About us page: http://www.cybershoppers.org/content_pag...e=about_us Based on that quote, Alex Ewaey has finally met his match in the BS department (or maybe not since Alex once claimed God had chosen Ewaey over other auction sites). edit 2: from the privacy policy Quote:We may collect and store the following personal information: The site might collect credit card or bank account numbers and yet it doesn't have an SSL. How nice. Quote: CyberShoppers Online Auctions | The Marketplace You Can Trust The hidden WHOIS and complete lack of contact info/address on the site definitely makes me want to trust it. TOS Wrote:Except as explicitly stated otherwise, legal notices shall be served on CyberShoppers's national registered agent I'm assuming that anyone serving a legal notice would first have to hire a psychic to determine the name and location of the "national registered agent" since there is absolutely no contact info or names on the site. TOS Wrote:We store and process your information on computers located in the United States Ummm, you better alert DNSStuff, RIPE, and DomainTools that their Tracert and GeoIP scripts are screwed up because they all show the server's (and IP's) location as the BlueSquare data center in Maidenhead, UK http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracer...oppers.org http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall....110.170.18 http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois....110.170.18 http://whois.domaintools.com/cybershoppers.org
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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01-01-2009, 07:45 AM,
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2009, 08:36 AM by mandy.)
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
Quote:About us page: http://www.cybershoppers.org/content_pag...e=about_us Cyberhoppers.org's About Us page is a word for word plagiarism of the About.com article "What is eBay" by Aron Hsiao. http://ebay.about.com/od/gettingstarted/...isebay.htm Cybershoppers is off to a good start: no SSL and copyright infringement. It's no wonder they hide their ownership information. : Welcome sarah_9, link spammer for cybershoppers.org ---------- Their MySpace page contains the same plagiarized article: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...iewProfile&friendID=435552097 Quote:CyberShoppers.org is the world's online marketplace; Besides its blatant copyright infringement of the About.com article, Cybershoppers.org is also violating eBay's registered trademark on the use of the phrase "the world's online marketplace": Quote:Word Mark THE WORLD'S ONLINE MARKETPLACE ---------- A December 10th (free) press release issued by the site: http://www.prlog.org/10153504-cybershopp...rsorg.html ---------------------------------- Cybershoppers.org's owner on Rent-A-Coder: Quote:Auction Website Marketer http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/mis...Id=1073297 |
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01-01-2009, 09:56 AM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
I thought Cybershopper's user agreement and privacy policies sounded familiar
cybershoppers TOS Wrote:Using CyberShoppers http://www.cybershoppers.org/content_pag...page=terms eBay TOS Wrote:Using eBay http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user...trksid=m40 Privacy policies: http://www.cybershoppers.org/content_pag...ge=privacy http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/priv...trksid=m40 I give them 4 weeks tops before the first lawsuit hits. tolensmiley: |
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01-02-2009, 07:03 PM,
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Re: Career Opportunities: Choosing Between Ebay, Ebay Alternatives, and McDonald's
Only a braindead moron would be dumb enough to copy Ebay pages word for word and think their lawyer's wouldn't notice.
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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