Read the Fine Print…Turns Out You Can’t Get Everything on Ebay
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by user LastRow
Isn’t it about damn time we all stop pretending and just come out of the closet with it? There isn’t no shame in doing it. Thousands of people on any given day do it, so if you think you’re alone out there, you’re really not! If you think there’s something wrong with you, there isn’t. There’s no reason to be afraid…Don’t you owe it to yourself to be real and stop pretending anymore? Trust me, you’ll feel so much better…It’s like taking that monkey off your back. Just come clean and admit you shop on Ebay!
From the company whose ads tell us “You can get it on Ebay” apparently neglect to tell us about the fine print. What fine print could there possibly be when trying to sell good old grampa Carl’s dentures…That I don’t have the answer to, but I do know, eBay has specific guidelines for charitable fundraising because the area is subject to many state and federal laws. The bigger news here is that ebay has guidelines in general!
Now we’ve all logged on to Ebay in search of various tickets for every sporting event imaginable, in hopes of being the winning bidder, with being overcome by excitement that we’ve all pissed ourselves. If you haven’t experienced this, you don’t know what you’re missing…Oh, what a feeling! So with the Ohio State-Michigan game in its last few hours before kickoff, Buckeye fans and Wolverine fans are blowing up this site in search for tickets. So much in fact, it would make any call girl jealous! Sorry babe, can’t do it this week…No sexual activity could possibly live up to the Michigan-Ohio State game! I know the feeling…I’m getting the same feeling as I personally countdown to Notre Dame-Army! It’s Senior Day you know…Goodbye Brady & Jeff, I’ll miss you!
Back to Ebay! A woman says eBay has shut down sale of two tickets to Saturday's Michigan-Ohio State football game that she and her husband had hoped would help them raise money to adopt a boy from Guatemala. Well, you know, Ebay is based in California…They’re most likely USC or UCLA fans. The reasoning was, somehow this violated its policy on charitable auctions. Um, I must be missing something here, (you know I’m not the sharpest tack on the board) but how did Kristie Sigler and her husband, Ken, auction violate anything here. If by you mean, “selling something to make a profit”, since charity always begins at home first, then yes, I guess this did violate your “charity/fundraising policy”. Although, I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but looks like you’ll have to shut the whole site down now! Everything on there goes to some sort a charity/fundraising cause…It’s called ,“The Seller’s Pocket”! It’s not like they were auctioning off their baby they’re trying to adopt…Which is a good thing! For I’ve seen wives up on the auction block, so babies would not surprise me in the least bit!
Isn’t this two-faced of Ebay…They tell us “You can get it on Ebay”, when really you can’t. Now that’s want I call false advertising! There’s a lawsuit! So it’s unethical to try and help a family defray the $12,500 cost to begin processing their adoption paperwork over a company’s policy, but seemingly have no problems in aiding and help support raising funds for select individuals on this auction site so the junk that these sad saps sell can immediately turn into their for drug money! That’s okay right? Come on, you know that’s real in select circumstances! It’s all in the item description now isn’t? If the Siglers never once mentioned their intent of where this money would been going towards…Let’s face it, the auction would still be up and running! However, as it turns out…"They [Ebay}never called, never e-mailed us or anything. They took it off and said because we were using the auction as fundraiser for the adoption, it violated their policy," Kristie Sigler said on Thursday.
All this from a website who has auctioned off Barry Bonds’s #715 Homerun ball, to a ridiculous look alike cheeto of Woody Paige and everything else in between that one could ever imagine, you guys at Ebay decide to pull this one…Very Hilarious! Purely Comical! Leave it to Ebay to give us a good laugh! You guys may want to try that slogan on for size…It fits your website better! Although, I must warn you, LastRowSports.com has copyrighted that slogan! So you clowns have to get cleared by us to do that…It will only cost you $12,500!
As a side note…If any of you out there reading this are still in the search for tickets to this game on Saturday, the Sigler’s have relisted their tickets on the Website Dreamseats.com. Before Ebay pulled this auction the couple had been offered as much as $1,550 for the tickets by Wednesday afternoon. "I'm most concerned that people will think we weren't being genuine," Sigler said. "We're still selling the tickets." So if you’re in the market for tickets or know somebody who is check out this auction…It’s for a great cause! Tickets are about 10 rows from the field
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