View Full Version : Celebrating 7 Years with eBay
7 years ago today I joined eBay, my first 'win' was Virtual Fishing for Virtual Boy.
After that, many USA and Japan only items, and Andrew Davies Odyssey collection, now I got over 300 purchases from eBay (I've given 355 feedbacks, received 278 feedbacks, all positive), and a few sales too.
y-bot
06-21-2006, 03:19 PM
Wow, we joined at almost the same time. My 7th Ebay birthday was April 5th. I don't remember what the first thing I bought or sold with this account was. I had been selling stuff through my work's Ebay account for awhile and my friend's account. My first Ebay transaction was selling a Dark Tower board game in 1997 or early 1998 on my friend's account. I just noticed I've left exactly 3500 feedbacks so that should be real close to the number of transactions I've had.
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=y-bot&iid=104753145141&frm=1728
My work's Ebay account was started in January 1999 and we've left 17671 feedbacks. Wow, that's over 20,000 Ebay transactions I've had some part in.
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackMemberLeft&memberid=coin-corner&items=-1&item=-1&de=off
y-bot
Steven
06-21-2006, 07:37 PM
wow, nice to see my fellow summer-ish 1999'ers here.
I joined June 1999, so my 7 year anniversary was actually a couple days ago. cool beans :)
congrats to ... uh... us! :P
icbrkr
06-21-2006, 08:24 PM
I'm patriotic.. it shows me joining July 4th, 1998 :) And I still have just around 400 feedbacks...
Steven
06-21-2006, 09:38 PM
I'm patriotic.. it shows me joining July 4th, 1998 :) And I still have just around 400 feedbacks...
good stuff. I am at 316 positive feedback, but on the whole have 425 transactions.... I like to deal with the same selles that's why.
jonjandran
06-21-2006, 10:05 PM
I joined July 17, 1999 and I'm at 1815 positives.... woohooo :D
tylerwillis
06-21-2006, 11:00 PM
Looks like I'm the eldest here, so far.
One month out from my 8th anniversary.
Jul-18-98
Members who left a positive: 2788
Members who left a negative: 11
All positive feedback received: 3263
3906 feedback left by tylerwillis (2 ratings mutually withdrawn)
briskbc
06-22-2006, 02:51 AM
On the 25th it will be 9 years for me. I started by selling my sports cards and moved into videos and video games as a way to raise money to pay for my wedding.
Bronty-2
06-22-2006, 02:57 AM
On the 25th it will be 9 years for me. I started by selling my sports cards and moved into videos and video games as a way to raise money to pay for my wedding.
1997 eh? Me too :) Can't really remember how or why I started but I remember thinking I was late to the party. My first negative was for some guy who claimed not to receive payment for a $2 item :/
Speedy_NES
06-22-2006, 04:28 AM
On the 25th it will be 9 years for me. I started by selling my sports cards and moved into videos and video games as a way to raise money to pay for my wedding.
I also joined in 1997 (June 8th, 1997), and also used my eBay account at first to buy basketball cards and then video games. Didn't realize it's been 9 years already!
I wonder how many people even realized that eBay used to be called AuctionWeb. When did they change the name anyway?
Mayhem
06-22-2006, 05:26 AM
Joined beginning of 1999 here, though I'd known about eBay since 1996, I didn't sign up cos I was at university and didn't have money to spend on it :P
Steven
06-22-2006, 06:11 AM
haha how humbling. I thought June 1999 was pretty nice/"hardcore" j/k :P
damn thats a LOT of transactions some of you guys have @_@
I joined in 1997 as well!
scorch56
06-23-2006, 07:40 PM
I really don't know if it's something to brag about; because my relationship with evilBay has always been a love/hate one. I look at them as a necessment (is that a word?) to my procuring games. If I had other options (Yeah I know.. forums like this and local sources.. but they can't get me the volume of games in the time..I want) I wouldn't use eBay at all.
Member since: Oct-07-99
Feedback Score: 627
Positive Feedback: 99.5%
I guess the thing I'm most proud of though is the fact that I've had the same account with the same user ID since then (scorch56.. everywhere). I don't change my ID every other 6 months like some do (mostly resellers of which I'm not); or to divert bad feedback. I take the bad with the good. Yes.. I know that your FB follows you even if you change your ID.. but changing your ID makes you somewhat "unrecognizable" for a spell after a bad incident.
I'm also very proud of the fact that I've left WAY more feedback for others than they have for me (kinda' sucks.. but some sellers just don't shive-a-git).