Mark its realy good it gives u a good write up someone called colin bell wrote in and said (patience this is a long one lol)
I woud like to suggest a possible contender for the uk auction crown and its british unlike e bay
since the huge e bay pricehike hundreds are signing up to this great site e bay have chosen to impose massive fee increases on their uk customer site while us fees remain unchanged this is just not right
There is a rebelling going on right now and hundreds of e bay customers are jumping ship why should uk suctomers pay for e bays mistakes when us customers are left untouched? publicity for the company would be a shot in the arm for the uk auction business lets give this british auction a chance to compete with e bay it is www.ebid.co.uk
the reply was from e bay
the e bay announcement states as we announced
new regulations is the eu about the collection of vat mean that e bay will be collecting vat on our seller fees
at the same time as this we will restructure e bays insertion feature and final value fees we will raise sone deduce others (lol) while keeping some the same in addition we will change our reserve fees
we are not sure that its true to say that hundreds of e bay users are jumping shi[ but any site like e bid that has good customer service and listens to its users gets our vote (roflao)
to see how e bay users have reacted to the new pricing structure you can view their discussion forums at (it then gives the link to the forums)
This was in Internet Advisor issue August 2003 ragrds barbara
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