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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7869662, member: 2098"]Aw. The memories. The eBay of today is not the same eBay of the 1990's. Back then you had direct email contact with the seller, sellers often had their email address incorporated into their user name, you could see the full user names of other bidders and even contact them, and feedback was far more open and transparent for buyer and seller alike.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was no Buy It Now or make a Best Offer, pictures in listings were not necessarily common, and it was way easier to weed out shill bidding. </p><p><br /></p><p>Paypal was in its infancy and many years away from being the only payment method that sellers could accept. Payment was generally done by cash, check, or money order. Ebay back then was way less automated and buyers and sellers had way more interaction with each other. It was a lot more fun to use eBay in the old days than today in my view.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7869662, member: 2098"]Aw. The memories. The eBay of today is not the same eBay of the 1990's. Back then you had direct email contact with the seller, sellers often had their email address incorporated into their user name, you could see the full user names of other bidders and even contact them, and feedback was far more open and transparent for buyer and seller alike. There was no Buy It Now or make a Best Offer, pictures in listings were not necessarily common, and it was way easier to weed out shill bidding. Paypal was in its infancy and many years away from being the only payment method that sellers could accept. Payment was generally done by cash, check, or money order. Ebay back then was way less automated and buyers and sellers had way more interaction with each other. It was a lot more fun to use eBay in the old days than today in my view.[/QUOTE]
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