How Long Have You Used Ebay?

[Rogmeister]

Just for fun, I decided to look up my very first Ebay feedback comment, mainly to see when I started. It was longer ago then I thought...the first feedback was from later in the month of October...7 years ago. I figured I'd only been using Ebay for about 5 years.

[tholly]

Mine says member since May 15, 2001.

My first 2 feedbacks were the same year on May 21 and 22.

[digitalpress]

Feels like forever.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=digitalpress&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS

According to my profile:
Member since: Mar-14-98

There are many members here with much higher feedback and on eBay longer, too! This is a veteran crowd, remember.

[Nesmaster]

since February LOL

[Chunky]

Apr-02-98

[Rogmeister]

Rechecking, I see I officially joined July 30, 1997 so I've been a member for 7 years, 1 month and 4 days!

[mizarkgram]

My feedback says:
Member since: 27-Mar-00

My First Feedback: 19-Apr-00 18:36

I do believe that was my Genny Model 3... the first thing I ever won on eBay... Oh the good old days when I have money to blow

[hydr0x]

i don't know and i can't check, but i think since somwhere 1999, when ebay started it's german department...

the reason i can't check? ebay banned my first account without a warning in advance and without a reason i know of, i had no negative feedback, no pending deals, nothing.... (actually i had 2 or 3 negatives but those were not for a good reason and were later revisioned by those people in the comments)

edit: wtf joe? what do you need disney skateboarding for? a complete set? that game is awful, IF you want a disney skateboarding game grab disney skate adventures

[digitalpress]

edit: wtf joe? what do you need disney skateboarding for? a complete set? that game is awful, IF you want a disney skateboarding game grab disney skate adventures

If you must know, yes... I'm collecting all of the GC exclusives.

You may not have noticed but I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. Sometimes that means picking up less than playable games to achieve a goal.

[tholly]

My feedback says:
Member since: 27-Mar-00

My First Feedback: 19-Apr-00 18:36

I do believe that was my Genny Model 3... the first thing I ever won on eBay... Oh the good old days when I have money to blow


im must interrupt the ebay talk to say that your avatar is very very nice

[Darth Vader]

Moving to the video game forum. I wanna say this topic was done before, but I could be wrong. :)

Danny

[allsport11]

Mmmmmmmmmm, May 29th 1998. Thought it was longer than that. :)

[Flack]

Moving to the video game forum. I wanna say this topic was done before, but I could be wrong. :)

Danny

Yup, my useless photographic memory agrees.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5120

[PapaStu]

Ive been a member since Sept 24 1998.

Ive been around forever, but ive only got a small amount of feedback considering. I tend to hit eBay in waves, buying for a few months, and then not touching it for 6 months to a year.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=paparoach

And Yes i made the name before the band got big. I took that name actually because I didnt think that they were going to make it.

[Aussie2B]

Feb-17-99

Despite the account's age, I only have a rating of 38 (50 all together). My first eBay purchase was an original NES with loose copies of Castlevania 2, Astyanax, and Friday the 13th. After many years of being without NES, I used eBay to recover my childhood. :) I've sort of moved on to using a different account now (my boyfriend's), and it's from:

May-15-01

It just hit 50 today (58 including multiples from same people). :) I don't have the big bucks to spend tons on eBay, and I'm not the type to buy a million tiny little cheap things. My purchases are usually for a fair amount of cash. I actually spend much more elsewhere online from small stores and marketplace forums.

[K3V]

Member since: Jun-20-97

I'm the winner so far :)

Just 110 feedbacks though - there'd be a lot more if everyone would leave feedback for their auctions.

[Nez]

April 1 , 2004.

I dont have too much of a reason to e bay.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Sep-12-98

My brother got this account way back in the day, and we both just decided to share it. We almost have 100 feedback.

[Aussie2B]

Member since: Jun-20-97

I'm the winner so far :)

Just 110 feedbacks though - there'd be a lot more if everyone would leave feedback for their auctions.

I hear ya... I make a point to leave feedback for every single person I do business with, so it annoys me when they don't leave feedback back. I don't even want to know how much feedback I'd have if I actually received it from every person...

[slip81]

I have had my own account for about 4 years now, and before that I was using my fathers account and that started in 1996 I think. I've been using it from just about the start. But I don't use it that much.

[Raedon]

You may not have noticed but I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. Sometimes that means picking up less than playable games to achieve a goal.

Man, you buy a lot of stuff...

..

It's like you could follow Joe's GC buys for advice on rares.

[undead455]

I've been a member since June 5 1999.

[Promophile]

Ive been a member since Sept 24 1998.

Ive been around forever, but ive only got a small amount of feedback considering. I tend to hit eBay in waves, buying for a few months, and then not touching it for 6 months to a year.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=paparoach

And Yes i made the name before the band got big. I took that name actually because I didnt think that they were going to make it.

Hey you won that PS2 wine bottle I made a half-hearted attempt to get LOL. Ending up getting some nintendo stuff from a ex-nintendo employee.

[video_game_addict]

Been doing the ebay thing since May-18-99

[MegaDrive20XX]

been with Ebay since Mar-15-02

but I've bought things from Ebay from my father's account since March of 1996

[kai123]

I joined Ebay five days before my birthday...Member since: Apr-10-01

[briskbc]

I joined back on June 25, 1997. I remember someone telling me about it back in 1996 but I thought you'd have to be nuts to send a total stranger money for an internet transaction.

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

I've been using eBay since February 13th, 2003.

[Predatorxs]

edit: wtf joe? what do you need disney skateboarding for? a complete set? that game is awful, IF you want a disney skateboarding game grab disney skate adventures

If you must know, yes... I'm collecting all of the GC exclusives.

You may not have noticed but I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. Sometimes that means picking up less than playable games to achieve a goal.

Hey DP i'm kinda in the Same boat i'v just started collecting for the American Gamecube, i'v collected around 50 titles in the last month or so, i'm around the 100 mark, and yes when collecting you have to pick up some of the trash that gets released.

But i hit abit of a block about a week ago, i got a Modded xbox for my birthday last sunday, and it was fully loaded with all the usual emu's / 8 games on the HD / etc, etc... and i can't get over how sweet it is, now i'm kinda thinkin errrrr should i carry on collecting for the GC? :roll:

Burnout3 : Take down is the f**kin greatest! Wooooow!! X_x

And the Ebay question for me its : Member since 30-Dec-00 in United Kingdom, only 4 years but a whole lotta money!

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[kainemaxwell]

eBaying since Jul-22-03.

[NintendoMan]

edit: wtf joe? what do you need disney skateboarding for? a complete set? that game is awful, IF you want a disney skateboarding game grab disney skate adventures

If you must know, yes... I'm collecting all of the GC exclusives.

You may not have noticed but I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. Sometimes that means picking up less than playable games to achieve a goal.

No, sometimes that means you have to pick up COMPLETELY horrible games that really suck, just to achieve that goal. Which I have to do ALL the time.

[hydr0x]

If you must know, yes... I'm collecting all of the GC exclusives.

You may not have noticed but I'm not just a gamer, I'm a collector. Sometimes that means picking up less than playable games to achieve a goal.

oh i know i know, all those crappy snes and dc games in my collection, it's horrible ;)

i just didn't know you where going for the gc set, hence my comment

[y-bot]

coin-corner (6608) Jan-25-99 (this is my work account)
y-bot (1591) Apr-05-99 (this is my personal account)

In 1997-1998 I used to have a few different friends sell things for me. The first thing I ever sold was a Dark Tower board game for $300+ that I bought at thrift store for $1.

y-bot

[ianoid]

I have the oldest account that isn't someone's fathers:

Member since: Feb-25-97

1432 feedback and climbing, 100% positive. eB!tch.

[Ed Oscuro]

Hrm...2001?

I need to re-register.

[y-bot]

I used to have 100% positive until two shitheads who never paid me left me neutral and negative feedback.

y-bot

[Promophile]

My neighbor had an account in like 96. I was pretty young back then, and she helped me sell some toys. It was cool 8-) . My personal account was made in 2001. I sorta fogot about ebay until I got into collecting games.

[ianoid]

I used to have 100% positive until two shitheads who never paid me left me neutral and negative feedback.

y-bot

I'm waiting for this to happen. It's only a matter of time. I almost never neg people unless they really piss me off. a significant percentage of folks on eBay don't understand the feedback system and what negative or neutral means. Ah, well.

My neutral in the last year was left by a woman who complained that the $5 Lion King SNES cart wasn't cleaned enough. I would have been happy to refund her money if she had contacted me AT ALL getting the item.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I rarely shop at ebay. It takes all the fun out of collecting and filding your games in the wild.

[Duncan]

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=duncan1800&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS

Since late 2003, when I sold the copy of Madden Championship Edition for Genesis that I got free. :D (I would have offered it here first, but I hadn't really gotten on the boards yet.)

I've gotten some of my better SMS stuff on the 'bay...managed not to pay too much, either. Positive experiences so far. Lots of vinyl for my brother's turntable habit, too. :)

[Promophile]

I rarely shop at ebay. It takes all the fun out of collecting and filding your games in the wild.

Where I live FINDING a game pre-playstation in the wild is IMPOSSIBLE. I could go 50 miles in every direction and not find ONE Atari cart.

[Duncan]

I rarely shop at ebay. It takes all the fun out of collecting and filding your games in the wild.

Where I live FINDING a game pre-playstation in the wild is IMPOSSIBLE. I could go 50 miles in every direction and not find ONE Atari cart.

This explains my SMS finds -- I can get the common stuff (Great sports games and a few others) locally, but everything else can only be had online.

[jaybird]

<a href=http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=jay-&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS>July 30, 1998 </a>

How long has eBay been around? What's the earliest date you could have?

[y-bot]

I think it started in 1994 or 1995 as a Pez auction site.

y-bot

[snorter]

August 1999 - a long time and a lot of games and dollars ago...

Snorter

[thetoxicone]

Feb 2, 1999 started buying stuff on there my senior year of high school

[Ed Oscuro]

I think it started in 1994 or 1995 as a Pez auction site.

y-bot
Yes. I've got an article about that (and more, GRR) - will scan as soon as my arm is 100% again.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I rarely shop at ebay. It takes all the fun out of collecting and filding your games in the wild.

Where I live FINDING a game pre-playstation in the wild is IMPOSSIBLE. I could go 50 miles in every direction and not find ONE Atari cart.

Makes the hunt even more fun. Once you've found the place and get your retro games, you'll feel like you just caught the greatest pokemon! :)

Keep looking, I'm sure your town isn't much worse than mine. Those atari games are out there man.

[ianoid]

Makes the hunt even more fun. Once you've found the place and get your retro games, you'll feel like you just caught the greatest pokemon! :)

I doubt it would be more fun to find less. Really, some areas are just devoid of stuff to find, although I haven't found many. Consider leaving a nondescript calling card with antique markets, putting out classified ads, or doing flea market weekend trips.

Card example:

Ian
925-xxx-xxxx
Atari Nintendo and most other old video games



(don't go with the 'Video Game Collectibles' and $$$$ paid for video games thing on the card.)

[Promophile]

I rarely shop at ebay. It takes all the fun out of collecting and filding your games in the wild.

Where I live FINDING a game pre-playstation in the wild is IMPOSSIBLE. I could go 50 miles in every direction and not find ONE Atari cart.

Makes the hunt even more fun. Once you've found the place and get your retro games, you'll feel like you just caught the greatest pokemon! :)

Keep looking, I'm sure your town isn't much worse than mine. Those atari games are out there man.

I don't collect Atari though, its before my time ;). I do mainly everything nintendo +

[PapaStu]

Makes the hunt even more fun. Once you've found the place and get your retro games, you'll feel like you just caught the greatest pokemon! :)

I doubt it would be more fun to find less. Really, some areas are just devoid of stuff to find, although I haven't found many. Consider leaving a nondescript calling card with antique markets, putting out classified ads, or doing flea market weekend trips.

Card example:

Ian
925-xxx-xxxx
Atari Nintendo and most other old video games



(don't go with the 'Video Game Collectibles' and $$$$ paid for video games thing on the card.)

925 Area Code... Your just north of me. :D

Its a nice idea, but most anitque shops ive seen, dont heavily carry the game stuff. But Thrifts, which are all over do and theres no way that they'd remember your card or anything unless you were a regular and just bought everything as it was.

[junglehunter]

Since 26-Sept-04

Better late than never, I suppose :embarrassed:

[farfel]

too long

we need an ebay 2 for competition

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Aug 30 2000 but only started using it recently
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[Hollenscythe]

Damn, I really didn't even think ebay had been around that long - but thinking about it, yeah, I suppose it has been around for all those years. Anyway, I don't think I actually registered until 1999 or so... it could have been late 1998 - but it definitely wasn't past mid 1999.

[sisko]

Aug-16-00

I think my first buy was a a SFC game.

I'm in a dry spell right now. I still get my favorite searches mailed to me, but I haven't been buying much there.

[Rogmeister]

farfel wrote:


we need an ebay 2 for competition

Well, there is Yahoo Auctions. They're probably small-time compared to Ebay...for instance, I don't see Weird Al doing a Yahoo Auctions song...but they're there. I haven't checked Yahoo Auctions out in a couple of years...

[ianoid]

925 Area Code... Your just north of me. :D


You live in the bay area? I don't any more, but you definitely can find things in thrifts, at flea markets and at yard sales there. It's alot of work to hunt! I suspect that I find something video game at 1 in 10 yard sales. If you aren't thrilled by the hunt, you best stick to eBay. There are alot of good deals out there.

[rhiohki]

me...

Member since: Jul-20-98

[Push Upstairs]

I've been using Ebay since April 1999.

I remember checking the site out because i heard a radio commercial for it.

Ebay was alot less popular back then and aquiring just about anything was much easier.