Wonderful Daily Deals on eBay

I got a great deal on eBay recently!
















... a Dyson DC7 "Animal" vacuum cleaner. I had wanted one for quite a while because I have a very furry animal named Beau and a little grandson named Darren who was getting Beau's fur in his mouth.


I found my new vacuum via eBay's DAILY DEAL announcements in my email. The seller, ABCVacs had a good reputation and seemed trustworthy so I bid against 19 other bidders to win my dreamy refurbished Dyson "Animal" at a price that was about 1/2 that of a new one from a "big box" store.


This was my Mother's Day present to myself and now I can retire my 25 year-old Kirby. I may sell it on eBay I still have all the attachments one last bag and the really cool carpet and upholstery shampooing kit. And I won't have to shave Beau anymore. There is a contest on eBay right now called DEAL FINDER SWEEPSTAKES that offers a $1,000 prize each week for the sweetest deal on eBay. Let's see, that $1,000 would just about cover a dreamy poolside summer kitchen for my husband's anniversary present, and I can get it all on eBay!

eBay Killers on the Rampage

The announcements made by eBay January 30, 2008, sent some of the 140,000,000 worldwide eBay users on a rampage. The internal message boards are on fire with the hot words of irate sellers who insist their business could not survive the double whammy of fees going higher AND having to tollerate the negative feedback of buyers without an avenue of retribution. Boycott threats are heard on many threads.

Sellers are verbally stamping their feet indignantly at the spectre they visualize: buyers ruining seller's good names while the sellers have no way to know which buyers they can trust.

Hmmmm, sounds almost like a brick and mortar store doesn't it? Higher rent at the mall AND having to smile in the face of a customer who is irksome at best and downright nasty at worst.

One prediction is so far proving untrue. If sellers are leaving eBay en mass, they are very busy wrapping things up, because the site, and that of eBay provider Auctiva have been so overburdened for the past 2 days, that I can't get a listing in edgewise.

*waves* buh, bye sore-tails!