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The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION Mon 23 Apr 2007
  

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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY US
ON TUESDAY 24 APR 2007
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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY CA
ON TUESDAY 24 APR 2007
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TECH FAILURES, FRAUD, LIES AND LAW SUITS
WELCOME TO EBAY
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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY US
ON TUESDAY 24 APR 2007
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ebaY US is holding a 20 cent auction style listing day on Tuesday 24
April 2007 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on TUE 24 APR
2007and ending that same day, 24 APR 2007 at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus
59 seconds).
 
The listing fee for all auction style listings is 20 cents on the U.S.
site (www.ebay.com).  This includes listings created before 24 APR 2007
but that are scheduled to start on 24 APR 2007.

ebaY will still charge all other fees including final value fees, listing upgrade fees,
such as Buy It Now, featured plus, subtitle, highlight, bold, gallery, gift services,
scheduled listings, gallery featured, homepage featured, reserve fees, ebaY
Picture Services, duration fees, etc.

ebaY is excluding fixed price, buy it now upgrades, ebaY Motors vehicles
and parts and accessories, International, Live Auction, Professional
Services, Ad Format, Real Estate and Store Inventory listings, from the
20 cent promotion.  Additionally, they are excluding business and
industrial categories: tractors & farm machinery (91952), heavy
equipment (25249), concession trailers, carts (67145), imaging and
aesthetics equipment (92035), forklifts and other lifts (97185),
manufacturing equipment (92080), metalworking equipment (92082) and
commercial printing presses (26247) and store inventory listings. The
promotional rate does not apply to listings with a start date prior to24
APR 2007- including those listings revised during the promotional
period.  The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created
on24 APR 2007and scheduled to start after the promotion ends.  

List auction items through the Sell Your Item Form, ebaY Seller Tools,
and most third-party tools.

Anyone can participate in this promotion, but they must list on ebaY US
and be willing to ship to the US and accept payment in US dollars.

For more info go to -
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/20auctions/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB

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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY CA
ON TUESDAY 24 APR 2007
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ebaY CA is holding a 20 cent auction style listing day on Tuesday, 24
April 2007 between 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one second on 14 March
2007) and ending on the same day Tuesday 24 April 2007at 23:59:59 ET
(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

Excluded are fixed price listings, business and industrial capital
equipment, All ebaY Motors listings (including parts & accessories,
passenger vehicles, motorcycles, power sports, other vehicles),
international, live auction, professional services, real estate, ad
format and store inventory listings. The promotional rate does not apply
to listings with a start date prior to 24 April 2007 - including those
listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate
also does not apply to listings created  24 April 2007 and scheduled to
start after the promotion ends.

http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/20CAF0424/

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TECH FAILURES, FRAUD, LIES AND LAW SUITS
WELCOME TO EBAY
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ebaY is eliminating the last version of the list your item form on 7
May, even though the new one does not work, is barely compatible with
the Windows platform and reportedly not at all compatible with the MAC
operating system.  WebTV users report they can no longer use ebaY at
all, to buy or sell.  As always there are more glitches than working
parts.

ebaY has been taking advantage of their sellers again, defrauding them
out of unearned fees.  What ebaY has been doing , is relisting sold
items and double listing items.   Unless the seller spends the time to
track and catch all these double listings, they are charged for them.  
Even when the seller finds the errors, they have to fight with ebaY to
get their listing refunds.  ebaY has been known to tell the seller that
it is the seller's fault, so they don't have to refund the fees.  This
is a lie, and ebaY is well aware they have a problem.  In addition, ebaY
glitches have caused photos to be stripped from listings, forcing the
seller to re-upload them and charging the seller a second time.  The
problem in ebaY stores is so bad, we heard from a seller who was told by
his store representative that it was unfixable and he should close his
ebaY stores down.  Many of these duplicate listing and relisting sold
items problems seem to stem from the time ebaY changed their listing
numbering system.  Charging these unearned fees, caused by ebaY
glitches, is fraud, particularly since ebaY is fully informed that these
problems keep occurring, and even know what is causing it, but won't or
can't fix it.

Nothing has changed  on the hijacked account counterfeit front.  The
problems have not gone away, and ebaY has done nothing about it, except
to delay even further the indexing of the items of legitimate sellers.  
The hijackers, who appear to have full access to ebaY's back end, don't
appear to have any problem getting their items to index immediately,
only the legitimate sellers.  ebaY's system remains fully compromised.  
ebaY continues to spend more time trying to hide the information than
actually finding a solution, but then they need something to inflate
their profitability numbers.

There are several law suits against ebaY surfacing.  One seller filed a
law suit on 20 Feb 07 for Breach of Contract, Breach of Good Faith and
Fair Dealing, Tortious Interference, Conversion, Intentional Infliction
of Emotional Distress, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress,
Libel-Defamation (contempt & ridicule), Libel-Defamation (Imputation of
Dishonesty, Libel-Defamation (Imputation of a Crime).  I am sure many
sellers out there who have had their accounts closed without cause, had
ebaY send inflammatory emails to all their bidders, and prevented
sellers access to their accounts to complete transactions already
committed to, feel the same way.  TAG will report on this suit as we get
information.

The patent injunction law suit against ebaY will get its day in court on
12 June 2007.  US District Court Judge Jerome Friedman set a court date
to decide the petition for an injunction against ebaY to stop ebaY using
Buy It Now.   In MercExchange v.
ebaY, a jury found the ebaY guilty of willful infringement in 2003.
Judge Friedman's long-awaited hearing is set for 12 June 2007 at 11:00am
in the Norfolk, Va., US District Court.

At the beginning of April, Michael Malone of Collin County, Texas filed
an antitrust law suit against ebaY for steering buyers and sellers to
use ebaY owned PayPal for payments. Mr Malone filed the suit in federal
court in San Jose, Calif., claiming the company engages in "illegal
tie-in and steering practices" that lead customers to pay above-market
fees for transactions.

In the more bad press department, a program ran on ZDF.DE on 22 April
about ebaY and ebaY power seller/shiller drum-partner.  The program will
run again on 25 April.
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/18/0,1872,1020210_idDispatch:5096641,00.html


ebaY reported an 52% increase in profitability this quarter.  TAG just
does not see it. ebaY listings and users have decreased, they lost
China, and looks as if they are going down the tubes in the UK.  Germany
is not doing well, and the same with the US.  Even with PayPal, it is
hard to believe they have really increased profitability that much.  
Have we learned nothing from Enron?  Who is watching the ebaY hen house?

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