I just got screwed yet again on Ebay/Paypal. Ebay employees the bad sellers and paypal takes your money for them. I don't have a facebook or twitter account with thousands of followers but I'm going to try and reach out to the few people I know in BBS Land. Watch who you buy from on Ebay. Ebay and Paypal do not monitor bad sellers until it's too late.. Especially if you buy something for under 100 bucks. As a person living on a fixed income in an adult home 100 bucks is a fortune to me. But Ebay/PayPal only want the big players. So watch yourself. If you can buy used stuff at your local Salvation Army please do that. Don't give your money to the likes of Ebay/Paypal. That's all for now.

HusTler

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to All on Mon Oct 19 2020 10:21 pm

I just got screwed yet again on Ebay/Paypal. Ebay employees the bad sellers and paypal takes your money for them. I don't have a facebook or twitter account with
thousands of followers but I'm going to try and reach out to the few people I know in BBS Land. Watch who you buy from on Ebay. Ebay and Paypal do not monitor bad
sellers until it's too late.. Especially if you buy something for under 100 bucks. As a person living on a fixed income in an adult home 100 bucks is a fortune to me.
But Ebay/PayPal only want the big players. So watch yourself. If you can buy used stuff at your local Salvation Army please do that. Don't give your money to the like
of Ebay/Paypal. That's all for now.

HusTler

What happened?

PayPal has always been a bitch to work with as merchant so I don't really like it much.

Ebay used to be about small sellers, but nowadays you can only make a profit there if you are a big seller with a big turnover of items, which is sort of sad.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to All on Mon Oct 19 2020 10:21 pm

Especially if you buy something for under 100 bucks. As a person living on a fixed income in an adult home 100 bucks is a fortune to me. But Ebay/PayPal only want the big players. So watch yourself. If you can buy used stuff at your local Salvation Army please do that. Don't give your money to the likes of Ebay/Paypal. That's all for now.

usually ebay will back you up and refund you.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Arelor to HusTler on Tue Oct 20 2020 09:43 am

I just got screwed yet again on Ebay/Paypal. Ebay employees the bad

What happened?

PayPal has always been a bitch to work with as merchant so I don't really li it much.

I bought a used laptop that didn't fit the description. I can still use it but the seller wasn't honest about it. Ebay needs to check on their sellers in my opinion but I know that's hard to do. It bugs me that ebay and paypal are the same. I'd feel better if they were two seperate entities but that's a pipe dream too. :-(

HusTler

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On 20 Oct 2020, HusTler said the following...

It bugs me that and paypal are the same. I'd feel better if they were two Hu> seperate entitie that's a pipe dream too. :-(HusTler

eBay & PayPal split back in 2015:

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ebay-and-paypal s-split-and-how-it-impacts-amazon/


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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: MRO to HusTler on Tue Oct 20 2020 04:54 pm

Especially if you buy something for under 100 bucks. As a person living

usually ebay will back you up and refund you.

Yea.. I opened a case so I'll see what happens. This is my first one. The case is with paypal. Paypal is who I have a problem with. The entire internet requires paypal. I got the darn thing working so that's good. The memory chip was bad. I just happened to have another one and it works fine. Installed Lubuntu and I'm good to go. The seller should have stated it had a bad memory chip and only boot to bios. It worked out for me but it should have been listed as "Not Working for parts only". Bitch Bitch Bitch LOL



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Re: Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Warpslide to HusTler on Wed Oct 21 2020 08:09 am

It bugs me that and paypal are the same. I'd feel better if they were

eBay & PayPal split back in 2015:

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ebay-and-pay s-split-and-how-it-impacts-amazon/

Split what? Stocks? BTW I the link is NG. I read up on the two on wikipedia. It's hard to tell who's who with all the aquisitions. I don't trust ebay. That's the bottom line. I've gotten ripped off too many times over the years.

HusTler

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Re: Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Warpslide to HusTler on Wed Oct 21 2020 08:09 am

It bugs me that and paypal are the same. I'd feel better if they were

eBay & PayPal split back in 2015:

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ebay-and-pay s-split-and-how-it-impacts-amazon/

Split what? Stocks? BTW the link is NG. I read up on the two on wikipedia. It's hard to tell who's who with all the aquisitions. I don't trust ebay. That's the bottom line. I've gotten ripped off too many times over the years.

HusTler


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Re: Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Warpslide to HusTler on Wed Oct 21 2020 08:09 am

eBay & PayPal split back in 2015:

I was there. Good times. We stood up a whole logical network, split 120+ business apps between two entities, and pulled close to 25K desktops all over the world off of one domain and onto a new domain, in about the same time we'd take to merge a small company's files, telco, email and clients onto the corporate network.

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Re: Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to Warpslide on Wed Oct 21 2020 11:05 am

Split what? Stocks?

eBay spun PayPal off into a separate company.

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On 21 Oct 2020, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

eBay & PayPal split back in 2015:

I was there. Good times.

That's actually really cool!

We stood up a whole logical network, split 120+ business apps between two pF> entities, and pulled close to 25K desktops all over the world off of one pF> domain and onto a new domain, in about the same time we'd take

That's certainly a big job! How many people were on that team? Did you have an automated tool to do domain pull/re-join or was it a manual one-by-one?


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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to Arelor on Tue Oct 20 2020 08:02 pm

Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Arelor to HusTler on Tue Oct 20 2020 09:43 am

I just got screwed yet again on Ebay/Paypal. Ebay employees the bad

What happened?

PayPal has always been a bitch to work with as merchant so I don't really li it much.

I bought a used laptop that didn't fit the description. I can still use it but the seller wasn't honest about it. Ebay need
to check on their sellers in my opinion but I know that's hard to do. It bugs me that ebay and paypal are the same. I'd feel
better if they were two seperate entities but that's a pipe dream too. :-(

HusTler

Aw man, too bad.

I buy my used hardware from professional dealers nowadays. They have warranty periods and such which is quite convenient, and
if need be, you can show up at their shop and yell at them. Most of the time, there are no problems, though. Last time they
sold me a server that didn't work, they replaced it for me, no questions asked.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Arelor to HusTler on Wed Oct 21 2020 05:44 pm

I buy my used hardware from professional dealers nowadays. They have warrant periods and such which is quite convenient, and if need be, you can show up their shop and yell at them. Most of the time, there are no problems, though Last time they sold me a server that didn't work, they replaced it for me, n questions asked.

I enjoy putting together old machines. I can't justify dealer prices. I'd probably screw up a new machine. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. I've heard it's a bitch to hack operating systems on new machines. Windows builds their licences into the hardware? What's a UEIU or whatever? No more BIOS anymore?

... I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to Arelor on Wed Oct 21 2020 11:52 pm

Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Arelor to HusTler on Wed Oct 21 2020 05:44 pm

I buy my used hardware from professional dealers nowadays. They have warrant periods and such which is quite convenient,
if need be, you can show up their shop and yell at them. Most of the time, there are no problems, though Last time they
sold me a server that didn't work, they replaced it for me, n questions asked.

I enjoy putting together old machines. I can't justify dealer prices. I'd probably screw up a new machine. Can't teach an o
dog new tricks. I've heard it's a bitch to hack operating systems on new machines. Windows builds their licences into the
hardware? What's a UEIU or whatever? No more BIOS anymore?

... I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Oh, I mean dealers of USED hardware.

Mostly, they buy computers and gear from bankrupt firms at a tiny fraction of their worth. Then they sell them to you at a tiny
x 2 fraction of the cost. End result is you end up buying capable machines for dirty cheap - we are talking less than 100 usd.

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Warpslide wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

That's certainly a big job! How many people were on that team?

I had 35 full-time people in the US, and another 25-30 temp workers
helping out.

Did you have an automated tool to do domain pull/re-join
or was it a manual one-by-one?

Automatic, there was quite a bit of manual work - all of our
management tools, apps, etc. needed to be re-pointed to new servers
or replaced with different tools, etc.




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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to All on Mon Oct 19 2020 10:21 pm

From my experience, if you file a dispute through PayPal, and you jump through their hoops, you will get your money back.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to Arelor on Tue Oct 20 2020 08:02 pm

opinion but I know that's hard to do. It bugs me that ebay and paypal are th same. I'd feel better if they were two seperate entities but that's a pipe

They have been separate for 6 years now.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to MRO on Wed Oct 21 2020 07:58 am

Lubuntu and I'm good to go. The seller should have stated it had a bad memor chip and only boot to bios. It worked out for me but it should have been lis

Did you contact the seller through eBay? I recently bought some RAM from random seller.. it was bad.. I contacted them and let them know, they apologized and refunded my money. No dispute necessary.

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Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: Phigan to HusTler on Fri Oct 23 2020 05:59 am

Re: Pay Pal / Ebay
By: HusTler to Arelor on Tue Oct 20 2020 08:02 pm

opinion but I know that's hard to do. It bugs me that ebay and paypal
are th same. I'd feel better if they were two seperate entities but
that's a pipe

They have been separate for 6 years now.

they are still both shitty companies
still the same user experience.

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