Poll: Do Self-promoting/Spamming posts by designers on the eBay boards discourage people from setting up their own websites?

cranky_hippie · 09-23-2006, 02:31 AM,

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HEY, what's up with the "Little Memeber" under my name???? Thefinger

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Just think, if you come here often, you can soon have a big member. Toothy9

xppman · 09-23-2006, 02:38 AM,

I HAD a BIG member but now I'm a "plumb devotee? hmmm Sad

xppman · 09-23-2006, 02:40 AM,

Oh no I'm a "Tulip Fanatic" now. OK can we edit that so I can be um
well... never mind. Tulip Fanatic is fine. : Smile

cranky_hippie · 09-23-2006, 02:45 AM,

You are a fanatic all right. Happy001

Jen · 09-23-2006, 02:53 AM,

Lawnmower mouth . . . . :gingersmiley:

I thought the "plum devotee" was the last of the FAS jokes Tongue3

Looking through the smileys, I just wondered if anybody ever heard from pirategirl lately. Or did she hang up the whole ecommerce deal after her horrible experience with that asshat stalker?

thentavius · 09-23-2006, 02:56 AM,

I thought pirategirl called it quits...

Hey, whatever happend to that plum devotee, anyway?

Jen · 09-23-2006, 03:12 AM,

Something about discussion board addiction, and needed to get back to tending business. Now she has 8837 feedback on eBay, 99.9% positive. Goshopgirl seems to be dead, and I'm not sure how you get a negative listing count, but she has -1 in some categories?

Jen · 09-23-2006, 03:15 AM,

I bought some perfume from her, and she figured out who I was so . . . so she sent about a kajillion free little bottles in the box to thank me for helping her. LOL - kinda made me feel guilty.

bargainbloodhound · 09-23-2006, 03:17 AM,

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I just wondered if anybody ever heard from pirategirl lately. Or did she hang up the whole ecommerce deal after her horrible experience with that asshat stalker?
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Her ecommerce plans were ended by that asshole identity thief/stalker. The last I heard she planned on moving back to Maryland after graduation and planned to work with children (as a teacher...I think).

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Hey, whatever happend to that plum devotee, anyway?
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Elizabeth deserted her auction site and went back to eBay in May 2005. When I showed her that Bidville only grossed $91K in 2004 her reaction was "I grossed 3 times that selling cosmetics last year". I think that moment was the beginning of the end of GoShopGirl (which has been unattended for 1 1/2 years. There are 18 knockoff handbags listings from a seller in China on the site today).

bargainbloodhound · 09-23-2006, 03:32 AM,

This is from the listing of that handbag seller on GoShopGirl

Quote:About us

We are a designer handbag wholesaler in China. We offer 7-star designer handbags and wallets like Fendi, Gucci, chanel , Hermes, Marc Jacobs, Chloe, Balenciaga, Mulberry, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior, Goyard. If you are looking for a dependable supplier, please contact us unhesitatingly. We have good reputation, many resellers on ioffer and ebay are our regular clients.

I can't imagine why the French trade group Unifab is planning on suing both eBay and iOffer (and Yahoo) over counterfeits. : Smile