Come on MovieMan.....you don't need no stinkin' badges~

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (with H. Bogart)

Good movie and YES, I do WANT a  stinking badge so I'll just put them on my sales pages myself.  Forget them !

You probably have gotten this in your email (from eBay) but here's the part that jumped out at me.

They start off by saying it is now "...all about YOU" and they have "you" in italics to make it stand out.
They then tell about 3 things that might actually help sellers.

THEN they have the following:

New Top Rated Plus seal highlights top services. The percentage of all eBay purchases that are from Top Rated sellers with tracking uploaded on at least 90% of their US transactions—and include 1-day handling and a 14-day or longer money-back return policy—is growing rapidly.


To help these listings stand out even more, starting in September, they will be highlighted with a new Top Rated Plus seal.


The current Top Rated seller badge will be retired.

Note the last line. This says that unless you do the 1 day shipping and 14 day return policy you will no longer be a top rated seller.

I have always liked having that distiction and the little ribbon that goes with it in each of my listings, but now it will be no more because I will not do one-day shipping and especially 14 day return. You can't do just one..have to do both to get the 20% discount on final value fees. They eliminated the 5% discount and now they essentially are blackmailing people into going 1 and 14 or they are no longer considered top rated.

Just a couple of weeks ago they were beating up on me because I was one item short of having what I needed in a 12 month period to be top rated. My annual dollar sales figures were 10 times what was required but I was one item short.

Now it doesn't matter that I ship quickly and have good star ratings...I won't be a top rated seller anymore.

*****

If there was anywhere else to go, I would, but there isn't and they know it.

How do you like THIS eBay?

Went to a by the piece sale.  They had 5 or 6 lkrs to piece out. First 3 were nothing special, but #4 was a 20 wide by 10 deep and the minute they started bringing the boxes out you could tell it was a good one with quality stuff.
Also, when walking by the open doors of the unit one could see quality furniture.

I bought $250 worth of stuff and feel it will double. Gas and time costs involved. Took from 8:30 to 3:30 and I left before the last lkr or two were sold.

This locker had four containers of Mary Kay stuff and I let one gal get the first one for $100..figure 2 to 3 times that in sales.  The next one she didn't want to back down so I took her up and up...she got it for $200. I got the third one for $70 (sales maybe $150 to $200) and she got the last one (smallest) for $45...I didn't bid on it.

I got a few good items at just $5 apiece and these will do well at $30 to $40 range.

No it is a GREAT unit and totally unexpected.  We desperately needed that. 

And I'm not kidding either...anytime you can net $3K to $4K on a unit IS like finding a long lost treasure. It doesn't matter whether you paid $200 for a unit or $2,000 for a unit...if you NET $3K it's great and doesn't happen all that often.

A 1 in 15 ratio is great for getting a great one. I don't buy anything (quantity wise) like I used to but in those days I figured 1 in 50 was good.  Now I am so picky I guess that ratio would get smaller. I haven't even bought a locker since May 9, 2012 (and it will be August 9 in a few weeks) so my stock is pretty slim. Been working on all old stuff in two lockers so need to buy something new somewhere.

Flea has been down last 3 Saturdays or so. eBay has dropped off in last week or so and Clist dead for maybe 3/4 weeks now.  These things seem to come in cycles rather than be a level, consistent thing.

Season Two....

....begins Tuesday, August 7, 2012....A&E


More entertaining than Storage Wars ?

  But he dropped the gun and ran.....

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

The rest of the story and your conclusions ring true as well. Bad things are going to happen no matter what; it might just be a matter of degree as much as anything else.

Regardless of age, everyone should be able to go out and enjoy a movie without having to worry about some lunatic walking in and laying down a spray of bullets. This whole thing totally disgusts me.

Sure, everyone should be able to go about their business everyday without having to worry about such a  thing happening. My comment (I think) still speaks to the lack of judgement used in taking a young child out at such a time of night (prior to going home and going to bed at 2:30 a.m.) to a movie that as a given is going to have a lot of violence and scary things happening. Just bad parenting in my opinion and nothing to do with whether a live gunfire experiece would be run into.

It is not as bad as the mother who drove her kids over to someone's house to beat them up, or the cheerleader mom who committed murder so HER daughter could get on the cheer team, but it still was a bad call in my opinion.

This incident will lead to a new round of gun control calls (none of which will succeed and none of which would prevent future bad things from happening as there are millions of guns in the hands of American citizens.)

Before any of the more fervent members here get in a twist about any statement I am making here, let me say that I am a gun owner but I wouldn't object if another gun wasn't manufactured or sold in the U.S.A. I could also say the same about tobacco. It has taken decades, but I think the death rates from smoking are going down...though young people still seem to be lighting up despite evidence of health care consequences.