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Are you ready? :)

bigbrickshop — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:48:41 GMT

eBay Australia has named this Sunday, December 7, as the busiest online shopping day in Australian history, predicting more than half a million items will be purchased on its site in just 24 hours, or six gifts every second.

The company predicts a “record-breaking” 2.6 million people will visit eBay Australia on Sunday, and will purchase 510,000 items — 23 per cent more than last year’s tally.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/ebay-predicts-australias-biggest-online-shopping-day-this-sunday-with-half-a-million-gifts-sold/story-fnjwmwrh-1227144767225

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curraone — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:57:00 GMT

I wish.....

So that will be 509,999 people who don't read the description or expect to get something for free.

And 509,998 people who give defects willy nilly.

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sueken4812 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:03:20 GMT

Well "I'm waiting with baited breath" ....NOT.

Let's see if the system can handle it.

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mbselections00 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:05:14 GMT

And if it be true and those figures are anywhere near the mark, am assuming the big guys will get most of the traffic, (the rest of us will have our lights turned off) and the antiquated system will no doubt crash !!

Happy days, hopefully we'll all get a bit of a spin off !! (We can hope)

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dylan11235813 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:07:48 GMT

If thats the case I predict the largest online shoplifting scam of all time.

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bakeandfry — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:07:58 GMT

Mite be why paypal are giving codes away for discounts at the moment

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4green2000 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:33:07 GMT

Thats greedbay's predictions..Good luck greedbay!!

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digital*ghost — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:33:37 GMT

@curraone wrote:

And 509,998 people who give defects willy nilly.

Wanna see my impression of Liam Neeson?

^Every single DSR defect I have is from a buyer that never contacted me about any problems and left otherwise perfect FB etc, and it bugs me they appear on the dashboard but aren't included in the proper report until a week or so later... Bugger Christmas LOL I'm just sitting here now counting down the days (4) when the 27 defects from a single buyer are no longer in my evaluation.

As to whether I'm ready.... No, I am not.

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curraone — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:39:42 GMT

"Taken"

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cmcoins2000 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:56:43 GMT

@bigbrickshop wrote:
eBay Australia has named this Sunday, December 7, as the busiest online shopping day in Australian history, predicting more than half a million items will be purchased on its site in just 24 hours, or six gifts every second.
..

The company predicts a “record-breaking” 2.6 million people will visit eBay Australia on Sunday, and will purchase 510,000 items — 23 per cent more than last year’s tally.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/ebay-predicts-australias-biggest-online-shopping-day-this-sunday-with-half-a-million-gifts-sold/story-fnjwmwrh-1227144767225

China Post will be very busy.

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dylan11235813 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:03:24 GMT

I think the line from the movie is slightly different.

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craftymel1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:03:43 GMT

Oooh I better get listing.... just think of all those fees I'll be able to pass on to ebay.... I'm sure someone is going to have a happy Christmas.

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bigbrickshop — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:07:41 GMT

Same here d*g.

You'd never guess how defective eBay thinks we are by our feedback would you.

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digital*ghost — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:17:39 GMT

@dylan11235813 wrote:
I think the line from the movie is slightly different.

I know it is.

This is called a meme (rhymes with cream) - the premise of which is generally a joke, and more often than not, they use references from pop culture to make a joke about other things.

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digital*ghost — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:27:42 GMT

@bigbrickshop wrote:
Same here d*g.

You'd never guess how defective eBay thinks we are by our feedback would you.

It's crazy...

I wonder what some of my regular customers would say if I got booted due to DSR defects. i.e. If I got a message asking me why I wasn't selling anymore, the best I could say is:

"Actually, I don't know. The only thing I do know is that at least 8 people thought my item descriptions were neither accurate nor inaccurate, so I'm not 'eBay worthy' anymore".

o_O

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treasuress.4207 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 04:58:18 GMT

I have NEVER had a paypal code

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2106greencat — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:12:51 GMT

Sounds great - half a million sales - world wide I guess.......but still, impressive..........

Just don't be too quick to spend those funds sellers.............who knows how much of the great haul will still be yours by June 2015!!!

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4green2000 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:13:45 GMT

@treasuress.4207 wrote:
I have NEVER had a paypal code

I have, so i bought then put in the code only to be an all day sucker.Never got a refund or anything.Terms and conditions applied to me and still got to be ebays and paypals sucker of the day

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4green2000 — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:34:57 GMT

@4green2000 wrote:
Thats greedbay's predictions..Good luck greedbay!!

So here we are..Told you it was only greedbays predictions

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clarry100 — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:26:41 GMT

While Sundays are normally a bit quieter than weekdays for us we would usually expect to see around 10x sales across our 5x IDs.

Yesterday we got a single sale. Woopee! for the biggest online sales day ever prediction.