Dudley, I’m on your side. E-Bay and PayPal are evil, pure and simple. Fuck them. I think it’s unfortunate that so many people have staked their livelihoods on the whims of a private company with essentially no competitors and unfettered access to your bank account.
It pretty much is one of those expressions. It means “Shipping is free until on board the ship” - basically, in international shipping, the seller pays for something to be moved to the port specified in the FOB price. I know commodities like coal & steel get shipped this way still, today.
Thanks, MrDibble! We applied the terms to domestic shipping, but the principle was the same. FOB Shipping Point meant that the seller was no longer responsible for the goods once they left his dock, and FOB delivered meant that the seller was responsible for the goods until they landed on our dock. But learning the origin of the terms after all these years is gratifying.
(By the way, Jesus is coming soon. Just so you know.)
They had to wait three days for him, too.
This is a good question. It’s a shame no one’s answered it.
It’s too bad the OP slinked out of this this thread. We were having so much fun.
Do you know how much fine print is involved with computers. You think I don’t have better things to do then read 70 pages of legalese a day just to be current with every bit software, or web service I might use?
Most people aren’t lawyers, but they’re expected to experts in law nitpicking every line in huge tomes of EULAs, just to use their computer to do basic things on the internet.
On one hand I understand the need for some form of EULAs, but the present situation is a sadistic joke. Throw gobs and gobs of dry soulless text at people expecting them to analyze every bit of it and jumping out to go “gotcha” when they befall some trap buried under 5 pages of legalese.
Fuck that.
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Just wait 3 days. 
“The eBay Effect” also examines why some former users feel betrayed and have deserted the popular auction site. Faber delves into claims of fraud and outrage over fee increases and other controversies surrounding this juggernaut.
I deleted it from my DVR but as I recall, they said eBay altered their fees and as time goes by, we’ll probably see mostly actual stores in there instead of small operations and individuals.
I feel like that is how eBay is now. It seems like 6 or 7 years ago, eBay open its arms wide to professional sellers and it really got away from the original idea of the site: People need to empty their attics and there are hundreds of people waiting to buy said stuff. Nearly any item, especially an electronic one, has a dozen of “Buy It Now” items by obvious storefronts. The weird thing is that the prices for these items are usually exorbitant.
Yeah, that brings up a good point. Why haven’t any competitors been able to get marketshare? I remember when PayPal was new… man, it was the company from hell back then! How they ever got themselves in a position to be bought by eBay, I’ll never know.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/514929.html
*1. Please list the websites for Ebay Competitors? (Other Online Auctions)
- List the various Electronic Payment Methods? (Paypal, etc) Do they
have any groupings or online malls, ie method to search online vendors
for products?*