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Offline jdcarpe

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How long have you been using eBay?
« on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:15 »
16 years for me...


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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:28 »
neverrr!
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #2 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. :))
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:04:34 »
12 years 3.5 months
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #5 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
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:18:36 »
Slightly over 10 years.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 11:25:56 »
Ebay Member since: Jul 28, 1999 =). You barely got me beat JD =)
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:32:48 »
2004
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 13:38:23 »
Nice man! :) Nov 2002
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #12 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!
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #14 on: Fri, 19 September 2014, 23:58:20 »
Since 8/17/1999.  Still remember being wary about joining.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #15 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  :))
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #16 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #17 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #18 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #19 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #20 on: Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:54:13 »
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #21 on: Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:58:06 »
#1 rule of eBay:

A lways
B e
S niping
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #22 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).

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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #23 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
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #24 on: Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:22:33 »
Member since: Jul 30, 1997  :eek:
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #25 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.
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #26 on: Sun, 21 September 2014, 23:48:07 »
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I guess when I had my first CC..
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #27 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)
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #28 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 :))
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #29 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).

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Loveeeeee.. I had both!  :) I miss that camera.. The little printer was cool too. hehe
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #30 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...
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #31 on: Wed, 24 September 2014, 01:10:52 »
Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 19 September 2014, 10:54:15
16 years for me...


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woow,you all have a long history with it,but as for me may be months
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Re: How long have you been using eBay?
« Reply #32 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
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