[78-L] eBay rant

[Cary Ginell]

I would say that a good percentage of the garbage is all Buy It Now stuff that just lays there and gathers moss. You can filter all of this out by just checking Auction Only when you search, and then you can also search by genre to eliminate all the Bollywood 78s. I almost never just browse through all the 78 listings anymore. 
 
Cary Ginell
 

> From: malcolm at venerablemusic.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:35:47 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rant
> 
> 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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