GLEEE!!!

I read this post...then I had to go back and read it again....because it made absolutely no sense.

But then again, my posts rarely make sense either.

We have that in common at least.

 

All I can say is thank you Feldon for every thing you have done and still try to do in support of the community past and present. Thank you for allowing us to come here and talk about a game that many of us have spent many hours and dollars on over the last 14 years.

Many of us have moved on, many are considering moving on, and some of us still log in because of friends. Whether we still actively play or not, this game has been a part of our lives and it is great to be able to come here and talk about it if we want to without judgment or fear of being banned just because we don't always feel positive or have glowing feed back. I/we don't take you for granted.

 

You're right. It isn't pretty. After over fifteen years of 'moderate it our way,' the eBay forums are full of exactly what you described. Which is why the savvy go elsewhere. And they have multiple elsewhere's to go to.

Yes, in the corporate sense eBay doesn't care. It's all about reputation management at this point. Reputation is all they left. Sort of like Daybreak.

I would have mentioned other forums like Battlefront 2 and that other clusterfunk. But they actually allow posts, that would be removed/banned on Daybreak or eBay forums. As far as I'm concerned, D and E are the worst.

Segue from strawman.

eBay is the "market leader auction site", because it's essentially the only auction site*. For years they're been moving away from auctions. And for many many years have transitioned to being a retail site. The bulk of their revenue comes from fixed price/retail. At least that was the vision, in writing, of the EX-CEO. Although the new one is more of the same.

* Okay, Sothebys and Christie's come to mind. But they're primarily in-person auctions, and have been around longer.

Seque from strawman.

Amazon could be responsible for nearly half of U.S. e-commerce sales in 2017
U.S. e-commerce sales
Amazon - 43.5% 2017, 38.1% 2016
eBay - 6.8% 2017, 7.8% 2016
Apple - 3.6% 2017, 3.2% 2016
Walmart - 3.6% 2017, 2.8% 2016

At this rate Apple and Walmart will surpass eBay "real soon now."

Seque from strawman.

Amazon ($1,479.75 stock price) is #1. eBay ($42.92 stock price) has not been the market leader for years.

Amazon forums are moderated with much more common sense. You can post something there, that would get you banned on the Daybreak or eBay forums.

The point was company run forums. Ergo the comparison of one forum to another forum is valid. eBay and Daybreak forums want suck-up posts and no dissent. Amazon forums will accept all sides, within civil reason.

And you're pushing a company to company comparison; strawman. Can go that route too in a separate discussion, using Amazon as WoW. And the relative numbers are about right.

Can't speak for everyone, but I'll say, 'we know.' Which is why making these posts is difficult. I have never received any pleasure out of poking an open wound. But sometimes you have too. And I have done that figuratively and literally. Gushing blood is Not Funny.

The voice of reason.

You don't owe anyone anything. A person thinking 'they owe me' would make DEMANDS.

I'm asking you to reconsider.

Incidentally, except for the justified strawman mention and your YELLING AT ME, this discussion has been civil. Such a conversation would be banned on the other two forums.


"Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness"
"Do we want to get to the moon or not?"
John Houbolt, 1962
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/somewhat-voice-wilderness-things-apollo-program-can-still-tupper

Spoiler: We did. In part due to John Houbolt.

 

After Cato had been made priest of Apollo, he took a house apart, accepted his share of the patrimony, which amounted to a hundred and twenty talents, and began to live yet more simply than before. He made a close companion of Antipater the Tyrian, a Stoic philosopher, and devoted himself especially to ethical and political doctrines. He was possessed, as it were, with a kind of inspiration for the pursuit of every virtue; but, above all, that form of goodness which consists in rigid justice that will not bend to clemency or favor, was his great delight. He practiced also the kind of speaking which is effective with a multitude, deeming it right that in political philosophy, as in a great city, a certain warlike element should also be maintained. However, he did not perform his exercises in company with others, nor did any one ever hear him rehearsing a speech. Indeed, to one of his companions who said, "Men find fault with thee, Cato, for thy silence," he replied: "Only let them not blame my life. I will begin to speak when I am not going to say what were better off unsaid."

- Reference link

 

I just want to know where Guild guy and Tekka's troll have gone.

 

This for me as well. Because the rest of the posts just made my head hurt....

 

Do go on....I feel like you have left some things unsaid.

 

Regarding troll guy, no one was feeding him, so he prolly took his ball and went home.

 

Goodness... He's at it again, with a whole new recruiting idea...

 

Lol!! Oh dear now I’ve got to go look

 

I’m a bad bad ranger... lol

 

Sadly that's not a new idea at all. I went through a patch a while back where every time I logged a toon onto Storms, or even switched character I got a guild invite in my face. When I had a go at the culprit one day he was all surprised as he'd never heard of me and actually admitted that he was running some kind of program that spammed them out automatically.