Archive | July, 2007

Sellers deleting bids

As you may know sellers have the ability to delete bids on their auctions. The reason for allowing this is generally buyers have a choice of which sellers they want to deal with (they can look at their ratings, trading …

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Site will be down this Friday night / Saturday morning

The site is going to be down for planned maintenance from midnight on Friday 3rd August 2007 until the early hours of Saturday morning while we do a major upgrade to the database.
As I am sure many of you would …

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The oldest scam in the book

I thought I would share an experience I had in the past day when I am almost certain a buyer tried to scam me. I placed a classified advert on bidorbuy for two jet skis I am selling …

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We also get compliments

To counter my slightly negative post from yesterday I thought I would share the following email we received today:
Sent: 27 July 2007 05:55 AM
Subject: COMPLIMENT
After reading the above I had to e-mail you and say as a new joiner to …

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Customer Service – damned if we do, damned if we don’t

I am always disturbed to read posts like the following one on the popular MyADSL forum.
Although many of the claims made in this thread are quite simply false, the fact remains that for some reason there is …

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Top performing categories and most searched terms June 2007

We at bidorbuy have committed ourselves to helping users on the site to become sellers and regular sellers to become Super sellers! In order to achieve this goal we will be supplying sellers with Useful information on this forum. We …

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50k+ Open Items

In the past day we reached over 50,000 open items for the firt time ever. And just last week we exceeded 200,000 enbabled users on bidorbuy.co.za. Another record today was we exceeded 1,300 Crazy Wednesday listings for the first time. Woo …

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Who is the oldest of them all?

We received the following email from a user recently:
Subject: Hello mail: Misc – MiscGeneral
Date: Sun Jul 22 2007 11:21PM
Message:
I am new and very green to this presentation. Age 71:
1.Please explain the term “Slabbed” in relation to coins offered for auction
2. …

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