Man suing ebay over $1.50

[mzkhadir]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019578/

 

[neonerd]

He is an idiot.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: neonerd
He is an idiot.

Who will settle out of court for more cash than you and I could hope to have by suing for $1.50

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: neonerd
He is an idiot.

 

[Baked]

eBay counter sues and bankrupts the idiot.

 

[DaWhim]

an idiot doesn't know how proxy bidding work

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: neonerd
He is an idiot.

:thumbsup:

 

[MrYAK]

Its sad to see what ppl will do just for money no matter how much of a fvcktard they look like. that is silly, i hope ebay stands its ground and wins, i dont see how a judge could allow a fvcktard like this to win this case.

 

[neonerd]

I would give the guy his $1.50, and ban his ass from ever visiting that site again

 

[everman]

This isn't about $1.50, it's about trying to get a class action lawsuit going:

He said eBay's actions have created substantial unlawful profits for eBay and its online payment unit PayPal. He said required restitution would run in "excess of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars during the past four years."

If they can prove Ebay has inflated prices arbitrarily like this, the lawyers make out with the big bucks. I don't think Ebay has anything to worry about though.

 

[Coquito]

He increased his own winning bid. I personally haven't tried to do that, but years ago, that didn't increase the price unless another member came in with a bid.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: Coquito
He increased his own winning bid. I personally haven't tried to do that, but years ago, that didn't increase the price unless another member came in with a bid.

exactly...he's blaming it on ebay :roll:

 

[shekondar]

I call BS.
I've raised my maximum (winning) bid before, and as I remember, it will do what he said and increase the bid, but once the auction ends it will go back down (assuming nobody else raised the price).

 

[AStar617]

He's a jackass.

He's complaining that the bid increment goes up with the current bid price. Basically he's mad that they forced him to raise his bid by $2.50 when he could have won by raising less... If everyone was allowed to increment by a penny regardless of the cost, he'd be crying about how "inefficient" the bidding system is with 1000 bids per item.

Another side-effect of public school budget cutbacks: poor logic, deductive reasoning, and reading comprehension skills. :thumbsdown:

 

[villageidiot111]

God, whats with people these days!

 

[zemel]

It's quite possible that most or some of you don't recognize the law firm name in the article.

The law firm is very well known because of one of their partners: William Lerach.

Here is url for their website: lerach in case you want to see for yourself.

I seem to recall Mr. Lerach is well known for suing large corporations; I'm not sure if he is known as "tort king"; I may have him mixed up with the lawyer from Louisiana [?]....

I don't have any interest in this case; other than to say Ebay shouldn't take this case lightly.

Lerach's firm isn't interested in making $ 1.50, unless you move the decimal point far to the right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and add many zeroes before it.

:Q

 

[Shawn]

what an asshat

 

[Toastedlightly]

He are samrted!

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: neonerd
He is an idiot.

agreed indefinately

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: neonerd
He is an idiot.

agreed indefinately

confirmed

 

[Gooose]

thats how yo get rich in America

 

[tami]

like i said in the repost thread ...

wtf? you can't bid against yourself.

if you bid $111 and nobody outbids you, you could raise your maximum to $112.50 or whatever, but that $112.50 would not appear to be the highest bid unless you've been outbid on the $111. that's how it used to be, unless they changed it recently....

regardless, that guy is an idiot. and how come it's a "class action suit?" how could there be more idiots like that?!

 

[rh71]

tami, that further proves he doesn't understand how it works. what you explained is still the case. it's still proxy bidding... only the lowest bid above the current bid is used. Once someone else goes to (and above) $111 and that was this guy's max, then that's when the email is dispatched warning him he WILL lose, unless he raises his max bid.

I can see this guy has a case ONLY if the other dude was up to $111 only and stopped... the earlier bid (being this guy) should still win it. Did the email indicate he was going to lose ?

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: rh71
tami, that further proves he doesn't understand how it works. what you explained is still the case. it's still proxy bidding... only the lowest bid above the current bid is used. Once someone else goes to (and above) $111 and that was this guy's max, then that's when the email is dispatched warning him he WILL lose, unless he raises his max bid.

I can see this guy has a case ONLY if the other dude was up to $111 only and stopped... the earlier bid (being this guy) should still win it. Did the email indicate he was going to lose ?

i suppose so. i hope a monitor falls on his head. idiots like him do not deserve to think, since they are obviously not contributing members of society.

and i still am baffled by the notion that he may possibly be bringing others into this lawsuit. i hope that the others are not THAT stupid. sadly, i guess that's just a dream.

someone should write to their law firm and tell them that their publicity is going DOWN because of this ridiculous representation.