posted on February 1, 2001 07:19:59 PM new
I guess there's no horse so dead that we can't drag it out and beat it again!
Has anyone else read the announcements board lately? It seems that in order to sell via Dutch auction, ANY and ALL sellers will have to be "ID verified." I wondered what that meant, so I checked. It means (are you ready for this?) that you will have to supply enough personal information for Equifax to pull a report on you. You will then be quizzed about pertinent details in your life, such as your mortgage payments, before you will be approved.
posted on February 1, 2001 07:31:43 PM new
I'm sorry, but I don't think you read the announcement correctly.
The new requirements for sellers to use the Dutch format are:
1. Have a credit card on file
2. Have a Feedback Rating of 50 or above, and
3. Be a registered user on eBay for at least 60 days.
OR
4. Be ID Verified.
The only real change would be the increase in feedback from 10 to 50. But they're not real clear which of those prerequisites the ID verification takes the place of...... or if being ID verified takes the place of the other 3.
Anyhow, people can still sell under the dutch format w/out being verified.. you just have to have a higher feedback to do so.
posted on February 1, 2001 07:31:57 PM new
I have only been a buyer but I was thinking of selling a couple things, so I was checking out what was required to sign up as a seller and saw this. I don't have a credit card so the only way was to let them pull my credit report. Screw them!
As a side note, it sure is getting tough to do business in this world without a CC. I've never had one and have no plans to get one. When I want something I save up and pay cash. It's tough to get credit for a large ticket item w/o a CC unless you go to a usurous leasing/finance company. Oh well!
posted on February 1, 2001 08:19:37 PM new
I saw a seller today who had the ID Verified check mark on their feedback page. They had -3 feedback. A total of 3 feedback had been left for them, and all 3 were negs.
posted on February 1, 2001 08:37:23 PM new
Anyone else get the feeling that ebay is TRYING to put themselves out of business?
To get a feedback rating of "50", a seller would need to sell at LEAST 250 items, one at a time, and BEG those 250 buyers for feedback, just to be able to DREAM of getting 50 buyers to leave feedback today.
