So I get home at 23:15 last night, check my eBay listing and my bike didn't make the reserve price. Arrrggggg, I need to sell it tonight so I can pick up the new bike tomorrow before going on holiday on Saturday. Quickly, I click on the three top bidders and send them a message.
...ah, a captcha, that's new, probably to prevent spammers or something... Fill in the number and pow, I can't send a message to my buyer because the auction is over. What??? how the hell am I supposed to sell the bike??? (£32 later)...
It's getting near midnight and hallelujah, the top bidder sends me a message. He's still very interested and wants to make a deal. OK, I click on "reply to message", give him my details and wait... another captcha and wham! THE SAME MESSAGE AARRRRRRRGGGGGG!!!
Bloody hell, there's a trend going on here. Big hosted apps can't afford to monitor or consider individual circumstances. It would cost a fortune to have a human evaluate every message sent on eBay or every click sent to an Adsense server. Instead, these companies work on aggregate (kinda the same way racial prototyping works).
Basically, the way it works is that if you find yourself in a situation where on aggregate a crime takes place then you are arrested, whether or not you had any intention of committing a crime. Aggregate justice is a whole new way to say goodbye to our Eighteenth century friends. Maybe we'll be bringing back the lash next...
Comments (7)
Hey ady boy, thanks for your comments, I feel your pain:-)
More than anything else, Ebay needs a coherent approach to user experience. The recent re-skin with grad backgrounds and some page reorganisation really feels skin-deep.
My guess is they are still suffering from the shitty Microsoft framework they built the thing on originally. Hopefully, they have a road-map with plans to migrate to some more sensible architecture.
I'm pretty sure i spotted some Sun Microsystems logo on there so change may already be afoot.
Let's keep our fingers crossed!
Posted by Dug | June 20, 2008 12:11 PM
Posted on June 20, 2008 12:11
EBAY ARE FUCKING CUNTS
How's this for a head throb? I haven't used Ebay for over a month, although I'm a fairly regular user up until now. So I go to login and it won't accept my password. WTF? So I try an old password, and it accepts it but says 'this password isn't strong enough' and asks me to type in a number that I see in a box, which I do, but then it asks if I want to change my password now or later - so this is the good bit. WHATEVER I CHOOSE IT THROWS ME BACK TO THE LOGIN SCREEN!!! Then, just to fuck me up even more, every support and help page requires you to FUCKING LOGIN! How can you see these if it won't accept your fuckin password you stupid cunts. So I manage to send them an email, and they say they'll respond within 24hrs - it's been 24hrs - still no reply. I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT - I HAVE STUFF TO SELL, I NEED THE MONEY - FOR FUCK SAKE LET ME INTO MY FUCKING ACCOUNT YOU CUNTS - WHY NO FUCKING SUPPORT PHONE NUMBER YOU CUNTS
Posted by ady boy | June 19, 2008 7:58 PM
Posted on June 19, 2008 19:58
Try giving your buyers a second chance offer that what you can offer your bike to the next highest bidder!
Or just create a new account and message your buyers and provide them contact details to get in touch with you.
You can also request contact details of any ebay member by going to the ebay help page clicking on request contact information and providing the ebayer's id and your item's item number. The details will be emailed to you instantly!
Hope I helped a little!
Posted by famous girl | May 10, 2008 11:34 AM
Posted on May 10, 2008 11:34
yea im gona blow up paypal with a shit boumb cunts i hate them sort your act out cunts cunts ahhhhhhhhh
Posted by erazerhd | May 4, 2008 4:03 PM
Posted on May 4, 2008 16:03
PAYPAL ARE FUCKING WANKING CUNTS, they so what the fuck to who they want how they want and when they want, fucking arrogant dumb assholes of the earth just like theyre self owned business partner fucking EBAY cuntsa as well.
I HOPE BOTH COMPANIERS GO DOWN THE FUCKING PISSER FOR EVER. FUCK EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by PAYPAL ARE FUCKING WANKING CUNTS | April 18, 2008 8:40 PM
Posted on April 18, 2008 20:40
EBAY AND PAYPAL ARE JUST PLAIN CUNTS! AND NOBODY IN THE UNIVERSE HAS THE POWER TO CHALLENGE THEM! SO, SEEING AS THIS IS MY ONLY CHANCE - EBAY AND PAYPAL - YOU ARE ABSOLUTE CUNTS. SO FUCK YOU BOTH FOREVER! AND I MEAN THAT FROM THE ARSEHOLE OF MY THUMPING HEART! SEE YOU IN THE NEXT SHOW - FUCKERS!
Posted by DAVID WHITTAKER | January 20, 2008 4:01 AM
Posted on January 20, 2008 04:01
Same thing just happened to me--the lack of one word cost me a timely auction.
I suggested that they inform a seller and freeze an auction rather than cancel it altogether. Your story helps me to understand why they responded the way they did.
Thanks for calling them cunts.
Posted by Ceri | November 14, 2007 2:13 PM
Posted on November 14, 2007 14:13