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To: I Believe It's Not Butter
Well I'm done for...they'll know about my buying "loose" (as opposed to mint in package) Star Wars action figures.
19 posted on 02/21/2003 10:45:25 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38
Well I'm done for...they'll know about my buying "loose" (as opposed to mint in package) Star Wars action figures.

Me too. I like those old IBM "clickety-clack" keyboards. They don't make them anymore, so eBay is where I go to get them.

This is definitely a "pick your battles" moment for me, and after carefully considering it, I've decided that I don't care if they know about my keyboards. Nor do I think they have time to worry about my keyboards. There is in fact great privacy in being one database record among 30 million.

People who worry about this stuff should shop in person and pay cash. Frankly, I want eBay to be out there announcing that they are law enforcement's right arm, because if they don't, eBay will turn into a nest of thieves offering items that will never ship, that won't be as advertised, and so on. That will wreck the whole thing. It's better that they are loud and scary about their cooperation with the cops.

All life is tradeoffs. On eBay, I worry more about thieves than I do about government agents finding out that I bought Office 2000 at a great price after Office XP came out.


23 posted on 02/21/2003 11:11:08 AM PST by Nick Danger (Freeps Ahoy! Caribbean cruise May 31... from $610 http://www.freeper.org)
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