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Title: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:15: 16 years for me...

(http://i.imgur.com/oLBVYgT.png)
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: paicrai on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:28: neverrr!
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:55:36: Quote from: paicrai on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:28
neverrr!

lol

my Yahoo! and eBay accounts are older than you. :))
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:04:34: 12 years 3.5 months
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:11:13: I started using eBay (I don't consider half.com eBay) when I started on Geekhack. Previously I was skeptical and refused to use it. Half.com was for textbooks. Same thing with PayPal.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: paicrai on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:14:09: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:55:36
Quote from: paicrai on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:28
neverrr!

lol

my Yahoo! and eBay accounts are older than you. :))
oh dang that puts things into perspective
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: esoomenona on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:18:36: Slightly over 10 years.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:19:23: I have 3 accounts. The oldest one dates from September 28, 2000, and has something short of 700 transactions, predominantly record and CD sales. The other 2 are from 2008 and 2009, as I recall, with about 100-200 each.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: digi on Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:25:56: Ebay Member since: Jul 28, 1999 =). You barely got me beat JD =)
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:05:17: My account was created in 2007, but I know I was buying stuff using my dad's account when I was in middle school, so I've been using it since at least 2003.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: demik on Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:32:48: 2004
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: dustinhxc on Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:38:23: Nice man! :) Nov 2002
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: TacticalCoder on Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:52:06: A very long time but probably not 16 years. I remember buying my first Model M on ebay at $0.99 (after reading a comment on /. about Model M being great and indestructible and all that)... Way before I knew Geek Hack!
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 19 September 2014, 15:58:21: Not as long for me, about 9 or 10 years. I still remember the first thing I ever bought - a Sega Saturn bundled with a bunch of games. Got the entire thing for around $50 after a few weeks of trying to figure out Ebay and losing every bid.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: 0100010 on Fri, 19 September 2014, 23:58:20: Since 8/17/1999. Still remember being wary about joining.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: strict on Sat, 20 September 2014, 00:04:12: Member since: Aug 09, 2003

I still remember what I created my account to buy; a c02 tank refill system for my paintball gun :))
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: bueller on Sat, 20 September 2014, 00:14:34: Sept 2004 but I know I had an account in early 2002. People thought I was crazy, eBay took forever to take off in Australia.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 20 September 2014, 00:50:30: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:55:36
Quote from: paicrai on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:28
neverrr!

lol

my Yahoo! and eBay accounts are older than you. :))

Did you have GeoCities account too?

My HotMail account predates the Microsoft take-over.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 20 September 2014, 11:29:50: i created my ebay account to get a thermocouple to use in a engineering project freshman year of 2008 or 09

I was first on ebay to look at model ms in 2007 though. I decided that $20 was too expensive at the time, and did not make an account.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: Input Nirvana on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:49:26: I thought this topic would be totally flat and dry, but some of the stories are amusing, and most of which are pretty GH exclusive...just like the members.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: Solo on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:54:13: Member since: Nov 07, 2010
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: noisyturtle on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:58:06: #1 rule of eBay:

A lways
B e
S niping
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:59:45: I thought it would be fun to share what my first purchase was, so here it is (technically two purchases made at the same time).

(http://i.imgur.com/1NPMkbQ.jpg)
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 21 September 2014, 22:40:15: Quote from: noisyturtle on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:58:06
#1 rule of eBay:

A lways
B e
S niping

#2 rule of eBay:

P urchase
B efore
T hinking
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: abjr on Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:22:33: Member since: Jul 30, 1997 :eek:
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: user 18 on Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:43:43: Using my parents' account: probably around 2007 or so.

Using my own account: only around a year.
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: elton5354 on Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:48:07: Member since: May 25, 2005

I guess when I had my first CC..
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: hwood34 on Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:48:29: Quote from: strict on Sat, 20 September 2014, 00:04:12
Member since: Aug 09, 2003

I still remember what I created my account to buy; a c02 tank refill system for my paintball gun :))
I think we'really long overdue for a geekhack.org paintball outting (I won't ramp, I promise)
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: noisyturtle on Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:52:32: Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 21 September 2014, 22:40:15
Quote from: noisyturtle on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:58:06
#1 rule of eBay:

A lways
B e
S niping

#2 rule of eBay:

P urchase
B efore
T hinking

Also the golden rule for Amazon :))
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: dustinhxc on Mon, 22 September 2014, 00:03:08: Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:59:45
I thought it would be fun to share what my first purchase was, so here it is (technically two purchases made at the same time).

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/1NPMkbQ.jpg)

Loveeeeee.. I had both! :) I miss that camera.. The little printer was cool too. hehe
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: TacticalCoder on Tue, 23 September 2014, 10:31:03: Quote from: Soloist on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:54:13
Member since: Nov 07, 2010

Didn't know the "Member since:..." existed!

Just found it: the account I'm using on eBay was opened in 2003...
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: sunshine on Wed, 24 September 2014, 01:10:52: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:15
16 years for me...

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/oLBVYgT.png)

woow,you all have a long history with it,but as for me may be months
Title: Re: How long have you been using eBay?
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 24 September 2014, 07:23:54: Not to blow my own horn, well, maybe.

This thread has gotten a bit mucked up with junk, but I do think that there is valuable stuff there, especially for newbies.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51443.0 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51443.0)