anyone dealt with irish11965 on ebay

ctownboy · #1 03-03-2014, 12:09 PM

If anyone knows Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, or wants to take the time and write to him or his company, he currently is feuding with the upper management of eBay. He thinks they are mismanaging eBay and are not doingthings to promote shareholder value.

I think if enough people wrote to him and told him horror stories like these then he might see that all of these little things are hurting the bottom line and he might do something about it....

If not, then at least some people tried and let somebody who COULD do something about this crap know what was going on....

David

D. Bergin · #2 03-03-2014, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ctownboy

If anyone knows Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, or wants to take the time and write to him or his company, he currently is feuding with the upper management of eBay. He thinks they are mismanaging eBay and are not doingthings to promote shareholder value.

I think if enough people wrote to him and told him horror stories like these then he might see that all of these little things are hurting the bottom line and he might do something about it....

If not, then at least some people tried and let somebody who COULD do something about this crap know what was going on....

David

You mean like raising fees? The idea of promoting shareholder value is what put Ebay on it's downward slope to begin with, as soon as they went public is when they started bleeding everybody dry...........just so they could try and keep up with shareholder demands.

I'm not sure I want the real-life Gordan Gecko making decisions over at Ebay.

slidekellyslide · #3 03-03-2014, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by D. Bergin

You mean like raising fees? The idea of promoting shareholder value is what put Ebay on it's downward slope to begin with, as soon as they went public is when they started bleeding everybody dry...........just so they could try and keep up with shareholder demands.

I'm not sure I want the real-life Gordan Gecko making decisions over at Ebay.

The day they went public was the beginning of their efforts to mirror Amazon.

D. Bergin · #4 03-03-2014, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

The day they went public was the beginning of their efforts to mirror Amazon.

Yup, which I never understood, since they were always more profitable then Amazon.

I'm not going to pretend like I understand all aspects of the situation, but that's also when they started buying up more assets, infrastructure, competitors, Paypal, etc...

Creating an infrastructure they didn't have before. Perhaps they think that's worth far more then profits on paper when they eventually get bought out by somebody like Icahn, who sees value in breaking the company up into pieces.

Not a great move for the foot soldiers in the company, but great for the upper level management, looking to retire early and become "philanthropists" with the embarrassment of riches they balloon out on.

DanP · #5 03-03-2014, 03:52 PM

Hearing this stuff makes me sick...

Is there any way we have one spot on N54 with a list of all of the ID's of these idiots so we can go to one place and find them?

I would assume we would all want to restrict them from bidding on our items on ebay.

I guess I'd have to talk to Leon.

Dan

Buythatcard · #6 03-03-2014, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DanP

Hearing this stuff makes me sick...

Is there any way we have one spot on N54 with a list of all of the ID's of these idiots so we can go to one place and find them?

I would assume we would all want to restrict them from bidding on our items on ebay.

I guess I'd have to talk to Leon.

Dan

+1

In addition to listing the id, we would need to include an explanation. We can then all vote for the idiot of the month.

the 'stache · #7 03-03-2014, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DanP

Hearing this stuff makes me sick...

Is there any way we have one spot on N54 with a list of all of the ID's of these idiots so we can go to one place and find them?

I would assume we would all want to restrict them from bidding on our items on ebay.

I guess I'd have to talk to Leon.

Dan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

+1

In addition to listing the id, we would need to include an explanation. We can then all vote for the idiot of the month.

Guys, I proposed something similar to this last fall, and after feedback from a lot of forum members, it was pretty much decided it wouldn't work. You can read about the discussion here if you like:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=175293

Dave, I'm very sorry this happened to you. While the majority of people on Ebay are top notch, there are some real bad people there, too, and when you encounter one of them, as a seller, you essentially have no rights. Ebay is going to almost always side with the buyer, even when they are clearly in the wrong. Ebay has been horribly mismanaged. I could see them going the way of Blockbuster before too long. They've become too big for their britches, and too greedy. They're not long for this world.

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