I registered around July,05. I was shopping for items (>$100) for a retirement project. Due to my career(pilot) I held back from entering auctions because travel kept me away from the internet and I couldn't stay on top of auctions. Within 10 days, got two "spoof" emails from "EBAY".Forwarded them to ebay. Ebay confirmed they were bogus. Retired in Oct,05 and on Oct23,tried to bid on my first ever auction. I was denied access, said my PW was not good and my pesonal data was different from what they had on file. I have lived here at my same home since 1980. Something was certainly wrong. Customer service is a joke and non responsive. After 29 emails from customer service since Oct 24, all the same thing, and fearing I.D. theft/fraud, I filed a complaint with FTC today. May be a waste of cyberspace but it felt good. Still wanna buy something.

Max...................... welcome to PSU!!! Well - sounds as if your first experience was not at all what you wanted....better luck with your 2nd, 3rd, etc!

PSU has awesome folks, awesome info and awesome "stuff". Explore and be sure to share also - so we get to know ya!!

Welcome to psunite Max!
Sorry to hear of your troubles at ebay but the CS response is typical....

If you cannot seem to resolve the issue with that particular site, you might see if you can sign up under another user name....Happens all of the time to new inexperienced users....


Glad to have you aboard!

elgato

Max says "Customer service is a joke and non responsive."


Is it me or maybe I've been given a false impression by eBays' balance sheet. It indicates that they have 8100 employees...........so............wheres the customer service

Ebay, has falsely accused me too, and You just know you can not get through to them, never, and I am so sick of this, sitting on a ton of merchandise, and no place to sell, that has the most people they have so many accusations and then pull them, What can I DO???

I want to sell my Candles, for the holiday season, and they are beautiful, also made in the USA.
I need to find out how to open a site. Please anyone help.

We'd be happy to help you out. Just PM us and we'll get you up and running for the holidays.

Max THANK YOU & A BIG HUG!

It is good to see someone report to the FTC because the FTC is one of our most important tools in actually fixing what is broke.

So many people don't understand how important that forgotten little report becomes, when it is in a file full of similar little reports from a few dozen different people.

Time and Again wrote (View Post): › I want to sell my Candles, for the holiday season, and they are beautiful, also made in the USA. I need to find out how to open a site. Please anyone help.

Hello Time and Again;

Sorry I didn't get back to you on your forced exit from ebay but as I said earlier I get busy with other things and just can't post as much as I would like.

If you want to get a website up there are some inexpensive host that have templates which can get you up and running in just a few days.

I wouldn't recommend "Brave Net" as they seem to have a bunch more subscribers than they have CS. You might take a look at: www.directnic.com I think you can get a site up and going for app. $30.00 including you domain name. If I can help I will be glad to work something out in between all the other stuff.

Dooley

dep-t-dawg wrote (View Post): › Hi all..My wife & I would like to get a small website running as well.. MOST of the options (we have considered) do not offer..all the help we need as in: (1)-OK..duh..you have a computer.. in other word we need help from the very start of start of step one.. (we do NOT want to mess it up as we have NO funds to waste on errors). We know that many folks much more knowledgable than ourselves have had awful problems. Help and advice that may also help others, would be greatly appreciated, please. Thanks so much and you all have a great evening! JB

Hello D. D.

As I said before, I don't think I would try "Brave Net" there are some user on their forums which seem to be just a little, well, lets say, unhappy with their hosting.

At the moment I have a site parked at www.directnic.com which cost me $15.00 a year.They have several plans which are not very expensive.

If you have a domain name in mind go to their site and check to see if it is available. If so, you can register it for $15.00 with a CC and you have access to a certain amount of web space and e-mail addresses. The web space has adds placed on them but it's free and if you are starting out it just might be something you want to look at. If I can help I will do all I can in between showers.

Dooley

Well - DTD and others ----

if you first just want to "play" to see if you can build it and manage it (content/look/feel), you can go to Ewisoft for both free and pay-for web site builders...They're easy to use.

I'm not certain if they offer hosting or not (used my IP for that), but if I can go and build something ---- you can too! I was (and still am) a complete numpty, and actually used this to build mine.

They have forums and I've never posted - but been able to find my answers when needed by doing a search.

I use Bravenet for my counters (free) - never explored their hosting at all.

Best of luck to you all -