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Wednesday, April 24, 2002


The world of Ebay

I just purchased my first item from Ebay! It was a limited edition Final Advance Promotional Poster of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. I'd like to thank, Ebay, The World Wide Web, Peter Jackson for making such an awesome movie and an especially big thank you has to go to my work colleagues who egged me on and chipped in some extra money when I went over my budget. Oh, and I have to thank my lawyer, legal counsel and attorney. This moment is so much bigger than me.

I am excited.

I think I have been initiated into the heady world of bidding and buying. I was just thinking though - how is it that Ebay works? How does a community (as it calls itself) like that able to function based on the trust of people you have never met and are never likely to. What is to stop someone from creating fake identities and causing havoc amongst other well meaning buyers and sellers? There has to be something there that keeps it all together and somehow, miraculously, keeps it alive.

It must be the Ebay community code.

All for one and one for all.


 # posted by Vron @ 10:46 am

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