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7/5/2004 4:11:16 PM EDT
I just won an auction for 13 HK G3 lightweight mags in an ammo can,then I received a message from ebay telling me the auction is null and void due to ebay policy!The bastards.....................................OK,I'm over it.I just e-mailed the seller and told him that I'm still interested if he is.
7/5/2004 4:13:17 PM EDT
[#1]
good buy them direct then ebay doesn't get paid.
7/5/2004 4:35:26 PM EDT
[#2]
Great!  That means the seller doesn't pay a PENNY to ebay for listing the auction!

They won't cancel the seller's account for it, either.  Not usually.  They want their money for the other auctions he puts up that ARE allowed by their rules.

I listed a surplus M2-2  FLAMETHROWER a week or so ago.   Ebay cancelled the auction and it sold for about eight grand anyway in a private transaction.    I was in direct contact with every person who bid on it while the auction was up.   Ebay gets not one penny when they could have made several hundred bucks by letting the auction happen.

Dumbasses!  They're DUMBASSES!

CJ
7/5/2004 4:53:12 PM EDT
[#3]
cmjohnson, that's pretty cool...
7/5/2004 5:03:05 PM EDT
[#4]
I used to prowl E bay for some deal's and the same thing happened to me..Thank goodness for e mail..
7/5/2004 5:34:12 PM EDT
[#5]
That guy that was seling them on Ebay, also posts his mag here for sale...

www.ak47.net/forums/topic.html?b=7&f=92&t=214760

I just bought ten from him...
7/5/2004 5:38:09 PM EDT
[#6]
I scored 100 30 round USGI M16 mags and 50 20 rounders from a guy who had his auction cancelled for about $7/ea for the lot.  
7/5/2004 9:33:02 PM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:
Great!  That means the seller doesn't pay a PENNY to ebay for listing the auction!

They won't cancel the seller's account for it, either.  Not usually.  They want their money for the other auctions he puts up that ARE allowed by their rules.

I listed a surplus M2-2  FLAMETHROWER a week or so ago.   Ebay cancelled the auction and it sold for about eight grand anyway in a private transaction.    I was in direct contact with every person who bid on it while the auction was up.   Ebay gets not one penny when they could have made several hundred bucks by letting the auction happen.

Dumbasses!  They're DUMBASSES!

CJ




I've done much the same several times.  As a buyer and a seller.

Fuck eBay and PayPal!  (and CCA)!
7/6/2004 3:13:51 AM EDT
[#8]
damn...i NEVER find deals on ebay.

i get outbid on every auction i enter.
7/6/2004 3:53:08 AM EDT
[#9]
The great thing about that flamethrower deal is,  ebay's fee for the auction alone (to start it, not the final value fee) was over 80 bucks!   I got three or four days' worth of free advertising via ebay, WITH a dozen pictures, and they then cancelled and lost every cent of what they would have made.

They've outsmarted themselves!  

That doesn't seem to take much effort.

But what else can you expect?  They're in California!

My reply to them concerning the unfair cancellation was not a particularly nice one:


This is complete bullshit.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A SINGLE FEDERAL LAW ON THE BOOKS THAT PROHIBITS THE OWNERSHIP AND
OPERATION OF EVEN A FULLY FUNCTIONAL FLAMETHROWER SYSTEM.
FOR EBAY TO TELL ME THAT SUCH PARTS HAVE TO BE DEMILLED IN THE FIRST PLACE
IS UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.

Ebay has been progressively pussified by the adminstration, apparently in a long running attempt to
be "politically correct" (an abominable practice) and it, like the Communist State of California in which
it is incorporated,  clearly has an anti-rights, anti-freedom agenda, particularly with regard to the utterly
essential rights to both free speech and the right to keep and bear firearms.


I am considering whether to continue doing business via ebay in any manner.  There ARE other auction
sites on the internet,  and some of them do NOT have policies that directly infringe upon any of my
rights as a free American citizen.


The flamethrower auction will continue privately.   I'm in contact directly with every person who bid on it.
But now,  you won't get one damned penny of the expected 7000 dollar sale price.

Your restrictive policies will be your ruin.


Yours in disgust,

Chris Johnson





YES,  I sent them that in reply to their notice.

CJ
7/6/2004 12:29:48 PM EDT
[#10]
the scams on ebay are enough to keep me away, amymore.
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