Thursday, June 15, 2006

Top Ten Cloves: Possible Problems For eBay With Adding Telephone Service For Their Buyers and Sellers

News Item: EBay to Add a Phone Link From Listings to Sellers

10. Calls during the dinner hour lead to disputes, with buyers and sellers bartering and haggling over cooked meals

9. Major problems erupt, when buyers and sellers start using video-cam telephones

8. Sellers get annoyed, with callers from “Friends and Family Plan”, and having to referee family disputes

7. Likely to have the phone records subpoenaed by Scooter Libby’s lawyers, for possible assistance in his defense

6. Whole new batch of problematic auction items – Telephones that people say have image of Jesus Christ or Virgin Mary on them

5. People won’t use it; Will think its part of President Bush’s illegal NSA Wiretapping program

4. Won’t last – First time Meg Whitman gets woken up at 3AM, with calls about the used juicer, that’ it

3. Sellers will have to post on-line, in their auction space, what they are wearing, so as to eliminate, at least, one telephone call

2. More problematic auction items – People will attempt to sell used telephone calls

1. ``SkypeMe” takes on a whole new meaning after hackers cross eBay lines with phone-sex service













eBay sellers may now have to answer telephone calls, not about their auction items, but rather “What are you wearing right now?”

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