Censorship at 68kmla?

[puckman]

I agree, starting a flame war is not a good idea. I only wanted to air my surprise and frustration. This is not the first unfriendly response I have had when asking to send outside the USA.

Can anyone from the USA please fill me in what the big deal is? I send my ebay items worldwide all the time. Even receive a fair amount of items.

Btw, this has not always been like this which makes me think something has changed.

 

[equill]

I agree, starting a flame war is not a good idea. I only wanted to air my surprise and frustration. This is not the first unfriendly response I have had when asking to send outside the USA...

It is always a seller's prerogative whether and to whom to sell. You weren't the only potential buyer from outside the US whose bidding was not acceptable to the seller in this instance. You, however, did not accept the refusal, and sought to make your point publicly. No other would-be buyer wanted to air ... surprise and frustration in these forums.

And before you start to rewrite history, it was your abrasiveness as well as that of the seller that got the thread locked.

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[vassilizaitsev]

This is an old mac forum (or maybe your 68k liberation is new to you! )

These forums arn't ebay affiliated as far as I've noticed.

I agree the two can overlap, but ebay is such a prominent entity I'd suggest keeping ebay & 68kmla as seperate as possible.....

check the thread stating how ebay isn't so good nowadays..... edit; I've just searched & can't fint the thread I'm refering to!

but the point is that ebay is getting to be quite a contentious issue.

The best advice I can give is buyer beware.

 

[phreakout]

Frankly, I don't see why the troll has to complain so much about Mac users. Doesn't he realize that the Windows/Mac war is over and that they won, for now?

The sad truth is there are still 90 percent of the world that use Windows PCs; The other 10 percent use Macs or other OSes. This guy must have a problem Thinking Differently.

73s 8)

 

[iMac600]

I've said it already, that person was known for also flaming users over at My Dream App, and is widely regarded as a problem not only among the Mac Community, but the Internet Community in general.

 

[Temetka]

Maybe we should have a boycott forum here for posting the identities of ebay sellers who screwed us over or are unpleasant to deal with so none of us transacts with them in the future.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one...

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That would be bad. BY compiling a user generated list of e-bay sellers who scam / abuse us collectors it would allow us to better gauge who and who not to do business with. As a community I think we owe it to ourselves to look out for one another. By watching other peoples back we perform a potentially invaluable service for our 'community' members. So long as the discussion / list is conducted in a civil and adult fashion free of flames and trolls (on both sides).

 

[equill]

... BY compiling a user generated list of e-bay sellers who scam / abuse us collectors it would allow us to better gauge who and who not to do business with. As a community I think we owe it to ourselves to look out for one another. By watching other peoples back we perform a potentially invaluable service for our 'community' members. So long as the discussion / list is conducted in a civil and adult fashion free of flames and trolls (on both sides).

It would be extremely unwise on several fronts. First is that it uses a forum owned by someone else to vent the displeasure of posters—who do not own the forum despite their membership of its community—about eBay transactions. It is the someone else who has to suffer any legal comebacks as a result of statements in posts. That is something for all enlisted posters in this or any forum to keep in mind.

Second, it relies on one-sided accounts of the supposedly unsatisfactory transactions, with no possibility of other posters' being able to verify the facts of the matter. Third, as we have had well demonstrated recently, it invites retaliation from named sellers or respondents even beyond posting a response to such allegations. Fourth, it encourages self-justification and self-exculpation from the OP, which is no more necessarily a matter of Revealed Truth than was the original post.

Fifth, in short, it is the kind of thread that this Army needs as much as it needs an outbreak of STD.

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[Kallikak]

Fifth, in short, it is the kind of thread that this Army needs as much as it needs an outbreak of STD.

What this forum needs is some posts about 68K macs! They seem few and far between just recently...