Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ebay: Buy, Sell, Put your Head through a Wall.

Its been years now since Ebay started up and revolutionized the exchange of goods in one fell swoop.  When you really stop and think about what Ebay created, man it's a really fucking awesome concept.  There is only one problem with it though...that is when you actually try sell something.  Thinking back I don't even remember the first thing I put on Ebay.  I was in my early 20's and Ebay was just picking up some steam.  What I do remember is a pretty smooth transaction and being pretty happy with the end result.  Still today I buy things on Ebay here and there and for the most part I don't have a problem.  Sure you can get screwed pretty bad if your not careful buying something on Ebay but selling is a different ball of wax.  Especially when your forced to deal with Billy Bob Joe Jerkoff with the ripped Nascar t-shirt beer farting into his couch and bidding on your items.  Then you have some ass breath from a third world country creating fake user accounts and bidding on your Xbox 360.  In my personal experience on this site lately being a seller on Ebay is just a fucking nightmare.  If you believe I am wrong, try to sell a laptop on there one of these days.  I wouldn't wish this pain and frustration on my worst enemy. I would rather lay my laptop on the Garden State Parkway in front of a 16 wheeler then deal with the absolutely stupid uninformed  cheap fucking people and their asinine questions and actions.  Believe me you will wind up punching the side of your oak dresser after getting the laptop sent back to you not because the laptop was DOA or got damaged in shipping, but because the sock sniffer on the other end is too stupid to set up the wireless card that came with it and can't connect it to the internet.  Another great return was because the laptop didn't have Firefox installed on it.  Yes the person actually didn't know how to install Firefox.  I can't even imagine how these drooling pillow biters get through the day with the level intelligence they have.  The examples I gave are real and terribly frustrating but the real kick in the dick is when you have your item in an auction for almost 7 full days watching the bids, only to have a criminal douche bag use a fake ebay account and win the auction in the last half hour.  You know what happens then right?  Ebay immediately has cancel the winning bid, and you get to start all over again.  Unless of course you want to offer to sell it to the people who came in second or third place in the auction and most of the time are cheap pieces of shit.  So you either sell it for less money than you would've made of start the auction over.  I bet more people would just get rid of it.  In summery like I said before the problem doesn't lie with the site itself. It's dealing with the people. This is primarily because most people are so fucking stupid it will physically hurt your brain.  Especially when it comes to buying and selling anything.  So unfortunately this is what makes Ebay suck more than the site itself.  I'm sure Ebay tries its best to combat human stupidity on a daily basis, but it is a battle they will never win.       

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Try to Read an Article Online without Having a Seizure

Have you realized that lately trying to read an article online is like reading a magazine with a circus parade marching around you?  I mean Jesus Christ on a cross can I read one fucking article without a 4 by 8 inch advertisement popping up in front of or next to what I actually am interested in looking at?  No I don't want your shitty product and putting it in my face every 5 seconds is not going to change that.  In fact it only makes me actually hate the company and wish that Tyler Durden would set it on fire.  Lately if the ad doesn't just physically block what you are trying to read until you x click, then it smashes the article into a 1 inch fucking line of words that goes 14 feet down that page so the annoying advertisement can fit on the page next to it.  So if reading a paragraph that narrow didn't make you fucking brain hurt, well there is a huge blinking bright colored advertisement right next to it playing music with cartoons jumping all over the place playing instruments while animals mate in the background.  How the fuck are you supposed to read anything with this bullshit going on.  Come on I understand that these sites make their bread and butter from ads but where do you draw the line?  I think some of the site owners need a swift kick to the throat.  Stop being so greedy you bunch of wankers.  Because you know what keep pissing on the sites people like with these shitty ads and eventually no one will come back anymore.  Then what will you do with yourselves?  Move back in with mom and dad perhaps?