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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:maddog#best,com">maddog#best,com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:45:11 -0700 (PDT)</LI>
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F. Randall Farmer wrote:
> Comments? Any EQ guys wanna share some thoughts? :-)
>
First, I have been an EQ player for over a year, so I fairly well know
the game, areas, and most everything. Recently I started buying on
Ebay and as luck would have it, I was also ripped off for about $395.
This means that now I have some experience with the Ebay feeback system,
their support group, fraud investigations and more things than what
I wanted to experience.
About the time I was devising a plan on how to make trading safer,
Verant announced that they were going to add in the new clause in
the user agreement. I wrote to them (to everyone I could get an
email address) and asked them to hold off on the plan until I had a
chance to present my proposal on how to reduce auction fraud.
Two days later Verant made the change.
I personally feel that Verant is going in the wrong direction.
They have a history of solving problems by surgical means.
In other places (maybe here too) I have posted over the years over
the need to create virtual objects that could be moved, traded, or
sold. I advocate such things as LEDO (limited edition digital objects)
and believe there is a huge potential for the virtual market.
I don't claim that trading on such a place as Ebay is going to lead to
a new virtual business. But it's a start. And for some of us that
have participated we have picked up some new ideas.
frank
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00194" HREF="msg00194.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00176" HREF="msg00176.html">[MUD-Dev] DGD Description</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00169" HREF="msg00169.html">[MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gamingsites</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00181" HREF="msg00181.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gamingsites</A></strong>,
Zak Jarvis <a href="mailto:zak#voidmonster,com">zak#voidmonster,com</a>, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 21:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00178" HREF="msg00178.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Sony to ban sale of online characters from its popular gaming sites</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00160" HREF="msg00160.html">[MUD-Dev] History, background and religion</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00166" HREF="msg00166.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] History, background and religion</A></strong>,
Kevin Scott London <a href="mailto:london#cs,utk.edu">london#cs,utk.edu</a>, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 18:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00214" HREF="msg00214.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] History, background and religion</A></strong>,
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