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To: CookiePuss who wrote (5040)	8/23/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: McNabb Brothers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

I don't know if it is or not! Hank

To: CookiePuss who wrote (5040)	8/23/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Sgt. Stockpile	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7772

EBAY sellers are just a bunch of spoiled whiners for numerous reasons: 1. Without EBAY, these sellers would still be hocking their rusty hubcaps and Pez dispensers at their local antique shops next to the saloon on some dirt road off the deserted interstate. Show a little gratitude. 2. If a $1 charge so drastically affect the livelihoods of EBAY Sellers, then what were EBAY Sellers doing 3 years ago...eating catfood out of a cardboard box with a mountain of nick-nacks dreaming, "If only I could leverage my hoard of trinkets globally..."? 3. Read the EBAY community chatsite. The fact that a $1 charge can illicit that volume of anger and rage makes for some of the most comical reading on the net. Give it a read. You'd think they were burning babies wrapped in American flags. 4. You have people saying that they will no longer be able to make money on EBAY, that it will no longer be worth the effort. (Talk about razor thin margins). As if charging an extra buck for Shipping and Handling would kill 'em. 5. The only thing that unifies the indignant EBAY sellers is Greed and Pettiness. They're all a bunch of addicts, reacting the same way a twitching heroin junkie with $50 bucks in his pocket would if his dealer raised prices to $51 a pop. Let 'em run off to Golds (whatever the hell that is). They'll be back. Because there is only one auction fix in town -- EBAY.