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• joshpincusiscrying // Feb 11, 2013 at 10:40 am

  Have we become a society where we are defined by our eBay feedback?
  I sure hope so.

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  • Unfortunate Incident // Feb 11, 2013 at 11:52 am

    As Billy S. said, “brevity is the soul of wit”. Bring it on eBay and Twitter.

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• Unfortunate Incident // Feb 11, 2013 at 12:04 pm

  The quote on page 9. I’ve found it too late for Regretsy, “I love you too much to bid on that stuff you call shit.”

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• dogwood2 // Feb 11, 2013 at 4:10 pm

  My gosh, that guy is a hoot! But a number of seller replies indicate there was no transaction as a basis for the feedback (e.g., “I have not dealt with this person. Do not understand the ‘feedback’.”) Considering this seems to be a flurry of activity in 1999, I’m guessing that there was an old eBay bug, long since fixed, that allowed a joker to sneak crazy feedback into the record. (Sort of like the mysterious rules in the 3000-page laws that keep coming out of Washington.)

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• NoFace // Feb 11, 2013 at 6:35 pm

  heh! Back in 1999, you could leave feedback as often as you wanted, for any reason! If you accidentally negged the wrong seller you could write back and say “Oops wrong seller” etc, or vice versa. yeah. It was really different back then! And let it be said… MORE FUN!

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• WoodysMom // Feb 11, 2013 at 7:39 pm

  Took me awhile to see he was riffing on the usernames. I hope I have spared someone else the same horrible embarrassment.

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