[78-L] eBay rant

[Malcolm - Venerable Music]

Mal - I'm 100% with you and have gotten to the point where I just can't look 
at everything & I've been just giving up a lot.
There used to routinely be about 6000 auction listings in a given week and 
suddenly it's double that (and yes, I know the Indian listings you're 
speaking of - ha! Had to wade through those twice and I'm sure will have to 
again soon.)!
Week in and week out the same crap over and over again. If Ebay would just 
institute a very simple database filter that would allow you to exclude any 
item that has been relisted it would solve much of this browsing 
frustration.
Also, if they would stop charging such outrageous fees to have a store 
front, more of these items could be moved to Buy It Now to sit until that 
right person comes along.
I quit as a seller quite awhile back & am becoming frustrated with buying 
there as well. Sometime you get deals, but damn it's a lot of work and time 
spent for those! My obsessive nature makes it hard to quit looking, but ebay 
could certainly do some things to make their browsing easier. When was the 
last time ebay actually instituted a change that actually made things 
better?? The 50 free auction listings per month maybe? But other than that - 
ha!
The other Malcolm

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Malcolm Rockwell
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:19 PM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: [78-L] eBay rant

Ahem (he says, mounting his soapbox)...
I still troll the daily 78 offerings on eBay every morning over my
morning coffee and it seems the idiots have fully taken over. I've never
seen so much ballast in one place. It looks like any sellers with decent
and/or interesting material have fled to other venues, and the prices
for the crap that's there are stunning. And I'm just taking about the
auctions; I won't even go into the "Buy It Now" stuff.
How about 3 Fritz Kreisler 78s starting at almost $75? Or the relatively
common - and slightly grayed -  "Mean Old Frisco" by Arthur Crudup on
Bluebird with a starting bid of a mere $50? It has become rare to see 50
cent or $1.00 records going for less than $10. How about Dean Martin's
supposed first record on Diamond for a mere $119? And the floods of
classical, Indian (today there were around 1000 of these starting at $10
each!), and overpriced Philippine reissues?
Not only that but some sellers have been double listing material so,
just in case you may have missed their records on Monday, they'll show
up again on Thursday or a week later.
Empty sleeves for $12 each and up anyone?
What a bunch of crap. Well at least it's all in one place should one
need to find some and have money to blow. Used to be eBay was fun. Now
it's merely tedium.
Bah!
End of rant.
Malcolm
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