Forced eBay ID Change?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 21:00:48 2004

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> > Don't forget the other thing.... ebay raised its fee's to all the user
> > accounts Monday, they cut off some refunds and oh...but they did reduced
> > posting on their front page from $99.99 to $39.99 woo hoo :-P
>
> BLEEP! I hadn't heard about that one. Just as my wife is getting ready to
> start listing a bunch of my excess computer stuff :^( At the rate they're
> going it won't be worth the effort to use them, it'll be cheaper to dump
> stuff on "BadWill".

This is just the thing to spur a competing service with much better rates.
I hope eBay keeps raising their rates. It needs to cause just enough
grief to spawn a mass migration to another service. I dream of the day...

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