bandika
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posted on March 25, 2001 07:43:46 AM
There's an interesting topic on eBay UK.
I thought you'd like to have a look
http://remarq.ebay.co.uk/uk/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebayuk%2Etown%2Esquare&tn=797&sh=0339994b60dd7b7a&idx=-1" target="_blank
[ edited by bandika on Mar 25, 2001 11:05 AM ]
[ edited by bandika on Mar 25, 2001 11:06 AM ]
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joanne
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posted on March 25, 2001 07:49:38 AM
[ edited by joanne on Mar 25, 2001 07:51 AM ]
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bunnicula
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posted on March 25, 2001 07:52:37 AM
[url]http://remarq.ebay.co.uk/uk/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebayuk%2Etown%2Esquare&tn=797&sh=0339994b60dd7b7a&idx=-1]Are
Americans stupid?[/url]
never type while half asleep! 
[ edited by bunnicula on Mar 25, 2001 07:53 AM ]
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tabbinosity
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posted on March 25, 2001 07:56:26 AM
Never mind.
[ edited by tabbinosity on Mar 25, 2001 07:58 AM ]
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bunnicula
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posted on March 25, 2001 08:04:10 AM
Maybe the url is just oo long -- but just copy it to your address field & it does work.
Take the time to read the message board it takes you too--just goes to show that it's the same all over the world. While some sellers *here* complain about "ignorant" foreigners who bid on "US only" auctions, sellers in other countries are having the *same* problem with US bidders. 
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tabbinosity
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posted on March 25, 2001 08:20:53 AM
Well, I got there by pasting in this url:
http://remarq.ebay.co.uk/uk/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebayuk%2Etown%2Esquare&tn=1571&sh=0339994b60dd7b7a&idx=-1
Pretty ironic, and pretty funny, too.
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Pocono
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posted on March 25, 2001 09:08:01 AM
Those bloody bloakes
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cdnbooks
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posted on March 25, 2001 09:35:33 AM
I must confess to getting a very, very perverse sort of satisfaction to read things on that thread such as:
'I never said that I wouldn't sell to the americans, I just said they were mostly stupid and ignorant.'
What's next? A thread entitled "American Bidders Can't Read"?
Grin and bear it!!!!!
Bill
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toke
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posted on March 25, 2001 09:50:38 AM
I have to admit...it's a funny thread
I used to say NO Internationl Bidders...due to being totally chicken about dealing with the P.O., other currencies, etc. Now I just ask foreign buyers to check with me first, because I still don't want to sell to some places...and I sell a lot of weighty stuff.
Anyway, no matter what I said, I still got foreign bidders...and I always gave in. Invariably a nice bunch...the only serious PITA was my P.O. The clerks there are great, but have no clue about International shipping. We've been learning together
The only person EVER to offer to pay me what I undercharged him on postage, was a British buyer. (I used to screw up like that a lot, till I learned to compensate for my lousy scale.) He was horrified I'd cheated myself out of about $5.00. I didn't take it, but I loved him for it.
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bkmunroe
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posted on March 25, 2001 10:59:09 AM
http://remarq.ebay.co.uk/uk/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebayuk%2Etown%2Esquare&tn=797&sh=0339994b60dd7b7a&idx=-1" target="_blank
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sanriogrrl
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posted on March 25, 2001 12:50:23 PM
I won't get into international shipping, but I think it's interesting how different boards are run. If someone had posted that same exact topic, but replaced Americans with Canadians, that poster would get a warning. Maybe the American bidders that guy gets are stupid, but that Brit is R-U-D-E!
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Zazzie
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posted on March 25, 2001 12:56:34 PM
snriogirl---It's an EBAY board---not only that it is an EBAY.UK board--where hopefully they can discuss problems amongst themselves about problems they have with 'international' buyers.
There are many many threads here on Auctionwatch where exactly the same thing could be said about Americans in regards to their opinion on International buyers and the rudeness that occurs
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figmente
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posted on March 25, 2001 01:10:36 PM
Yes, Americans are stupid.
How else could Jr. Bush become president?
No need to ask the Brits.
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chizlemon
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posted on March 25, 2001 01:23:07 PM
If American's are stuipid; why is the home of the Ebay empire in the state of California! As for the election of a persident only citizens of the United States are entitled to vote.
There have been documentied accounts of Felons voting in this election and the votes of citizens of the United States who were serving in the United States Armed Forces not counting. I can not fathom anyone in his right mind not alowing the votes of a service person to count but many say that this happened in this election!!
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cdnbooks
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posted on March 25, 2001 01:52:12 PM
...although at least the Brits actually COUNT the votes that are cast!!!!!!
Bill
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chizlemon
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posted on March 25, 2001 01:54:37 PM
Point well taken! Why were the absentee votes in California not counted? There were over a million that were not counted?
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yisgood
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posted on March 25, 2001 02:15:42 PM
Could it possibly be that these Americans don't realize we are no longer part of Britain?
http://www.ygoodman.com
[email protected]
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mivona
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posted on March 25, 2001 02:35:52 PM
I thought it was fairly routine that absentee ballots were not counted, unless the vote was so close that the votes warranted being counted. Seems sensible to me, I suppose, but tends to make me feel less likely to want to vote.
I'm on the side of the Brits here, in general, having lived here for half my life. In my experience, there is a huge lack of awareness of the rest of the world, on the whole, among Americans. But I think it is ignorance, rather than stupidity. Stupidity is when they just don't want to know any other perspectives, because they are sure that no one has anything else worthwhile to teach them.
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figmente
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posted on March 25, 2001 02:35:52 PM
Some stupid Americans don't even understand punctuation.
Questions should be ended with a question mark rather than an exclamation point! It looks like this - "?" and can most likely be found near the shift key at the lower right of your keyboard.
Many Americans had to be stupid enough to vote for Bush to make the election close enough to decide by judicial coup instead of vote counting.
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chizlemon
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posted on March 25, 2001 03:32:18 PM
I guess that you made a point?!!??!!!
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molly001
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posted on March 25, 2001 03:55:50 PM
[Mivona said]
I'm on the side of the Brits here, in general, having lived here for half my life. In my experience, there is a huge lack of awareness of the rest of the world, on the whole, among Americans. But I think it is ignorance, rather than stupidity. Stupidity is when they just don't want to know any other perspectives, because they are sure that no one has anything else worthwhile to teach them.
I'm with you, here, Mivona. Perhaps on a gentler note, we too easily succumb to the limitations of our own human experience.
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adone36
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posted on March 25, 2001 10:42:43 PM
Americans do quite well on average I think. We are not arrogant, we simply have no real need for most of the world. Clustered together the Europeans have to mold themselves to communicate and deal with each other. Sorry to tell the Brits, the second language of the world IS English, but not to talk to them. It is also funny to hear people from countries with tremendously rigid class structures criticize the US for ANYTHING.
PS: Everytime some camera crew walks up to anybody on the street in GB and asks a question, what the heck is that they're speaking????? Should have sub-titles.
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Zazzie
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posted on March 25, 2001 10:46:03 PM
Americans don't need the rest of the world??
one word will show your error
OIL
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adone36
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posted on March 25, 2001 10:57:52 PM
Wrong. Even Alaska's huge deposits are miniscule compared to the shale oil deposits in the West. We buy Arab oil to "influence" the region, and because it is cheaper. But if the Arabs get a little too annoying we could tell them to drink their oil. The French and Germans on the other hand run scared of this all the time o
A better choice would be Chromium, which we get from Rhodesia and Russia, and is a vital material.
Tony
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TY111
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posted on March 25, 2001 11:09:32 PM
http://remarq.ebay.co.uk/uk/transcript.asp?g=discuss%2Eebayuk%2Etown%2Esquare&tn=1602&sh=fe93e945e1c0ce9f&idx=-1
Check this post--those Brits are a hoot & a holler.
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Zazzie
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posted on March 25, 2001 11:10:28 PM
ya right!!! I forgot--ya own the world--the oceans--the air--and all the resouces. Silly me.
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adone36
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posted on March 25, 2001 11:23:08 PM
Exactly! We don't have to start a Blitz, we already have enough liebensraum. Invade Russia for serfs to work in the factories???? Our borders need reinforcements because of people trying to BREAK IN. Europe is lucky Pearl Harbor (was allowed to???) happened. By the time an isolationist US would have moved, the common question would have been: Sprechen ze Deutsche??
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mcjane
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posted on March 25, 2001 11:47:30 PM
adone36 Amen
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Zazzie
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posted on March 25, 2001 11:49:03 PM
----and that's how you won the Vietnam war--eh??
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tunzter
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posted on March 26, 2001 12:12:42 AM
....well lets see now....we in America bought 10 million Pet Rocks in the 70s....
OJ walks free....kids starve while we think of MORE ways to spend $$$ on lighting up Las Vegas.......hmmmmm....its a tough call, isn't it?
2nz
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