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@davidc4430 wrote:

its very sad just how many dishonest people use ebay.  these forum boards are 90% storys about either dishonest buyers or sellers.

 

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The sale in my story above wasn't an eBay sale, but in the other E**y site. I was actually just perusing the forums over there a little while ago, and there was a thread talking about staying positive in the midst of all the negative topics on the forum (topics there are similar to here - low sales, low views, endless site tinkering, unfair practices, suspected buyer or seller fraud.... and so on and so forth).

Then someone popped in with an analogy, which I can't link to because it's on a different ecommerce site, and because I can't link to the source (for credit) I can't really repeat what it says, but the general gist of it is, the help forums on a site like this is like a workshop, if you're a mechanic in a workshop, you're only gonna see the cars in need of repair. IWhen you get out on the road, you're going to see the - significantly more - cars out there that are driving along just fine.