http://www.governormarley.com We like Pirates! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:33:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The recent ruling against ebay in which there were fined £31M over selling fakes has a deeper seedier issue associated with it. In the background there's a clear restriction of trade issue, there's a battle to ruin consumer choice and ebay have to win their appeal. The European Union need to ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=43 Ebay live has just finished and I've been following events. The disappointing thing is that I'm reading a lot of negative comments. Although I'm mightily disappointed with ebay, it's clear that many other people are too. However that aside, the ebay execs just don't get it and I'm at a loss ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=42 Enough about Ebay already, I know I know. I've been very critical of ebay and remain so. Indeed I'd say it's getting worse with the new 30 day non performing seller rules. Ebay are kidding only themselves with these changes and in times of a global credit crunch, they really ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=41 I won't sell on ebay these days, I wanted to but I saw the announcement on the forthcoming changes earlier in the year and decided I didn't like the policies. Now those policies are kicking in and the reaction is largely negative. The new feedback changes are in place in Australia ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=40 "tax doesn't have to be taxing" is the slogan from the UK tax authorities, oh yes it does is the answer from UK citizens. However it's not just in the UK where tax is taxing. There's a whole plethora of ways where tax authorities are looking to tax their citizens ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=39 Ebay's proposed new feedback changes are quite frankly so ridiculous that I've had to read them twice to make sure it's not a wind up. I've checked my calendar to make sure I haven't slipped into a time warp and came out on April 1st, but alas, they really are ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=37 I'm declaring 2008 the year of twitter type blogging. This means I'm going to do lots of short updates! Ok ok as it's been ages again, I'll start by saying that I don't know what's worse, Scoble being banned by facebook or being let back in. He either deserved the ban ... http://www.governormarley.com/?p=36