Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
All human enterprises seem to have some "bad apples."? And in the case of eBay, I'm sure many have seen inaccurate listings merely because the seller didn't know anything about the subject matter
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
e-Bay wasn¡¯t like that a few years back, as I was burned a couple of times by sellers that overtly lied about the goods (such as saying a tool was ¡°new¡± and then finding the seller¡¯s name
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Gerald Feldman
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
You can use eBay AND pay by PayPal for a purchase on eBay. Usually, eBay significantly favors buyers over sellers (one of the complaints sellers have about how eBay has evolved.)? But I can't comment
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
eBay is a business with facilities and staff.? They must have pay raises to keep competitive.? Their other costs like utilities, insurance, and everything also goes up just like it does for all of
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
Did you pay through PayPal or a credit card direct to eBay? Tom Tom Browne +1 514 523 9508 Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2023 11:47 AM To: Tom Browne <tbrowne.mtl@...>; [email protected] Subject: Re:
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Tom Browne <tbrowne.mtl@...>
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
Hello Gang: Just because inflation has been 14% doesn't mean their fees should go up too. Prices have gone up 14% so if the fees went up too that would be double inflation! Really if Ebay's volume
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Carl
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
I believe you are factually incorrect.? Inflation since 2020 has increased about 14%.? eBay fees have increased about 7% in that period.? That is about half the rate of inflation.? Yes, the costs
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
I bought a phone on Ebay, $800.? Seller sent wrong one, I returned it.? Ebay did not refund to my card, then said item was closed.? Had to dispute with bank.? So all is not wonderful with Ebay
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John Hutnick
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
"Their increase has been considerably less than inflation."Since it is a percentage charged and not a flat fee, it keeps up with inflation. I have had +8,000 transactions on Ebay and the cost of doing
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Jkle379184
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
I wouldn't say eBay is trying to "muscle back" into the payment territory.? What they have done is provide a seamless means, for both buyers and sellers, to use a vast array of payment methods,
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
As a buyer, what I like about PayPal is that they will go to bat for me if the seller doesn't respond to an issue; PayPal's entire business model involves keeping me happy, especially by protecting my
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Tom Browne <tbrowne.mtl@...>
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
"Managed payments" is what eBay calls their method of handling payments after it is no longer the now separate entity PayPal doing most of it.? (eBay and PayPal were once under the same corporate
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
Dick, The same happened in the UK a year or so ago if you are selling they want your bank account details to take out all you owe them and will not accept Paypal, you can still buy from E-bay and pay
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phill005
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ALERT eBay¡¯s Latest Attempt to Fleece Buyers and Sellers
Has anyone been watching what is going on with EBAY¡¯s new Business Fees Model? I have been following the new developments with EBay and how PayPal is being pushed aside and they are now using what
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OldToolmaker
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Re: Grease or oil or other? Advice please...
For the headstock bearings use grease, as any oil will get flung out. My choice would be Molyslip, because I know it will last many years, and I have a can of it. For slideways of all sorts I don't
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Keith S. Angus
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Re: Screw Machine Drills
I used to regularly drill ?1.5 ¡Á 30 deep, and ?0.9 ¡Á 10 deep in aluminium rod. This was from both ends of the same bar. The long 1.5 hole needed to be done in about three steps, withdrawing the
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Keith S. Angus
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Re: An Introduction and Several Questions¡
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replace all the grub screws and they will match.
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Davis Johnson
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An Introduction and Several Questions¡
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Hello, Group! New guy, here. My name is Wade and I live in Mississippi, in the US. I am a professional symphony orchestra musician and I run a small brass instrument customization and repair shop. I
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Pachyderm
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Re: Grease or oil or other? Advice please...
On a small lathe, the white lithium grease is good but for general lubrication and coating of surfaces otherwise you can use almost anything.? It doesn't matter because you don't have the forces and
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: Grease or oil or other? Advice please...
I love Kroil. I have used that stuff for years. It is about as good as the old 50/50 acetone/ATF and costs many times more, so why not? HAHAHA!!! Seriously, it is good stuff. I have never tapped
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Pachyderm
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