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I’m pretty sure no one who posted so far is an eBay employee - of course now by posting I’ve broken that streak. Damn.

Alan Lewis
Product Manager, eBay Desktop

The ebay message boards have always been mostly useless — newbies posting the same questions and complaints over and over, along with amateurish marketing, and on-topic conversations that last maybe 3 or 4 posts per thread. Ebay “blogs” and “guides” aren’t any better: A guy who sells phone accessories on ebay for a living wrote a consumer guide to phone accessories — Wow, why wouldn’t I trust that? Jeez.

Unless ebay has some secret recipe for elevating the quality of conversation, I don’t see neighborhoods accomplishing much. Right now, the discussion topics in some of those neighborhoods are so lame (”What’s your favorite Seinfeld quote?” “Love My iPhone!”) that they look planted.

(Keep in mind, I am a fairly regular ebay user, looking for things I collect, and I even participate in collector webforums, but not on ebay, because the signal:noise ratio on ebay is too low.)

Shopping is a social activity, what’s taking them so long, is my point! As someone said a few months ago, blogging is driving internet content, and blogs are at the center of social networks. Go Social shopping!

But this is a good opportunity to introduce StoreXperience:

StoreXperience simplifies the whole shopping experience. We help you find and purchase what you are looking for. By combining the best of two traditionally separate worlds, StoreXperience delivers the power of the Internet with the satisfaction of traditional shopping. This means rich information accessible from your mobile when and where you need it most - when you are in the store.
What makes StoreXperience special is that it works with brands and stores to offer you a deal you can’t refuse while you are at the shopping center. You not only leave the store with your purchase, but you know you got a good price. You get immediate gratification and know you can always return to the store for further assistance.

Our vision is to leverage new technologies, including mobile phones, to develop a sense of local community in the area of shopping, and build tailored relationships between consumers and local stores and malls. Our goal is to transform in-store shopping into a rewarding new experience by helping consumers find and buy the right products, at the right price, with the right level of service in their preferred stores or neighborhoods (this time, real neighborhoods ;)).

By combining the power of the Internet with the satisfaction of traditional shopping, we foster the local economy, enhance the relationship between consumers and retail stores, and avoid unnecessary product shipping. StoreXperience gives the consumer compelling reasons to shop at the local stores.

StoreXperience helps you purchase products that match personal interests and preferences while providing strong financial incentives. With StoreXperience in the palm of your hand while you shop, you are able to answer three simple questions: does this item meet my needs ? What are my other options ? What is a fair deal ? Enjoy a new shopping experience that delivers the power of the Internet in the palm of your hand.

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eBay just launched more than 600 micro-social networks on its site called eBay Neighborhoods. Each one is organized around a different product, like coffee, iPhones, Eames furniture, Seinfeld memorabilia, or Ford Mustangs….

eBay just launched more than 600 micro-social networks on its site called eBay Neighborhoods. Each one is organized around a different product, like coffee, iPhones, Eames furniture, Seinfeld memorabilia, or Ford Mustangs….

The blogs that are associated with some neighbourhoods are full of spam and it doesn’t look like there is a UK version:

http://neighborhoods.ebay.co.uk/ (Not Found)

and FINALLY, eBay has done something about it.

** applauds **

eBay just launched more than 600 micro-social networks on its site called eBay Neighborhoods. Each one is organized around a different product, like coffee, iPhones, Eames furniture, Seinfeld memorabilia, or Ford Mustangs. Content from across eBay—in…

” I am an emotionally retarded nutter. I have been really lucky in life. I have had it easy. I knew early on that I did not want to work hard. My dad got cancer as a result of too much hard work. Therefore ever since I was 14 I decided to take it easy. That is why I hooked up with Pierre a few years later. I worked for three days each week at eBay for three years. In the first year I worked for six hours each day. In
the second year I worked for five hours on the days I bothered to show up. In the third year i worked for four hours for three days each week. The result was that I was able to cash out with two billion.

“I pity the poor suckers in the old economy who sweat under a suit and tie trying to eke out a living. They are trapped inside four walls with such restrictions you would not believe. No chat during office hours. Chat only on personal time. Only 50k each month. Only eight weeks of paid vacation time. That is really lousy. They have to work the whole day. I sleep for three hours in the afternoon and feel that it is hard work. What attracted me to eBay was that the billions would pour in without hard work. The application had all the sex appeal of a college term paper.

“I am the first stupid man to become a billionaire because of idiots. I absolutely love stupid eBayers. There are lots of idiots who drive the price of items up to ridiculous levels. It is because of them that I got two billion. eBay is seen by many as a game. Idiots come along and up a bid until they’re actually paying more for the item than if they went to a store and bought it. I totally get it.

“EBay’s customers are either stupid like me and my dad or so wealthy like me that they don’t bother to do even a rudimentary price check.However sometimes it is a scam by people to drive up bids on their own auctions. I can see how people would just do that to get the victory to inflate their self-esteem bubble like me and Pierre. Either that or they don’t want to put in time or effort to be CAGs like me and Pierre.

“One of the cool things about eBay is that people don’t list their shipping fees up front and stick you with it at the end. One idiot paid $14 to have an mp3 player shipped to him. The guy even sent it to the wrong address. One way to skim people off their hard earned money is to price items so that the cost plus shipping is double that of the retail price. That way you do not have to work hard for money like suckers in the old economy..There are scammers like me and Pierre and then there are idiots. The scammers are those who create a new, clean, account with zero rating and bid to send the price up.

“Then you have the general nutcase. Once a cunt bought software, then when she had problems she sent an email demanding someone respond in 10 minutes even after she had been given links to the refund policy at least twice, once after she purchased on the confirmation screen, and again in the confirmation email plus it was available before she purchased for her to read at anytime. That is the thing about eBay clients. A lot of them are not normal human beings. I thank God for that.

” I am a huge cinephile. I watch four films a week. The films that I now co-produce are not expensive. People who are the opposite of me make them. They are passionate about what their work. For me job satisfaction is a bad word like motherf…”.

Scribd seems to be doing something on those lines, however i am not too sure how they are taking care of the copyright issues… any idea what scribd’s revenue model could be????