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Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

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Re: Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

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post #30

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Man, how eBay has fought Craigslist tooth and nail over the years.

eBay now owns a stake in Craigslist http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake

That's part of the drama - eBay opened Kijiji and craigslist fought to make eBay a non-controlling share.

Re: Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

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post #61

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The proof is that you listed the items which is clearly logged and visible.. The charge is for the listing not successfully completing an auction/sale.

See, this is a prime example of what I mean. There's no dispute that he listed items, so proof of such is irrelevant. However, you're taking the purported meaning of the cryptically phrased document-that-nobody-reads as immutable truth. Fact is that ebay failed to successfully execute the auction - they accepted bids from the guys in the back with the way-out-of-range numbers hand-drawn on cardboard.

>...cryptically phrased document-that-nobody-reads as immutable truth.

If you agree to use a service without reading the fine print, then you're obligated to what you agree to. "Nobody reads it" is not an excuse that a judge uses to nullify a contract.

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