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Sorai
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:08:00 -
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This announcement has been cross-posted to the forums: EVE General Discussion, Sell Orders, and Want Ads.
What is it?
EVEbay is an auction site designed to integrate with EVE-Online. It's sole purpose is to facilitate the buying and selling (specifically through auctions, although they can be ended with "Buy it now") of virtual items within the EVE universe. No real money is involved in this -- all bids are in ISK and the items auctioned are sold for ISK.
EVEbay is a completely free service. No currency (whether it be dollars or ISK) is required from either sellers or buyers for using it.
OK, that's all I need to hear. Where is it? http://www.eve-bay.biz/ (IGB-friendly)
How do I use it to sell?
How do I use it to bid/buy?
The full instructions/suggestions-for-use are a little long for here, but they can be found on the EVEbay About Page.
Why bother?
For more on this topic, please see the EVEbay About Page.
In short: escrow is annoying. I wanted to be able to search it. I wanted to be able to have history and a record of transactions. I was sick of looking for an Amarr Navy Slicer, only to find it filed under ' Amarr Navy Slicer' (there is a space at the beginning of that one), or 'BPC - Amarr Navy Slicer' or ' 1123@$(&*@$ Amarr Navy Slicer' or 'OMG AMARR NAVIE SLICER'. Escrow is slow. How many of us have opened the mission section in a station to "check something real quick", only to immediately feel like smacking ourselves because the game freezes for a while while it loads the escrow? Wouldn't it be nice to have "Show All"/"Show Only Escrow Located In Current Station" as our default at all times? Wouldn't CCP even like us more for keeping some load off of their servers? 
The really rare and expensive items are rarely on escrow, anyway -- they are in auctions, on these very forums or other EVE forums out there. I thought -- why not formalize the process? Why not try to just have *one* place to check, rather than various boards? Thus EVEbay was born.
How stable and reliable is it? My hope is -- very! I've done my best with it, but there is "always one more bug". If you encounter any problems in using it, please feel free to contact me.
Is it absolutely done? Is all the functionality that you want in-place? Absolutely not. The basic auction functionality (create an auction, bid on an auction, buyout an auction, leave feedback, etc.) is there -- but the more advanced things that I would like are not yet in-place. EVEbay should currently be considered a "Beta" product -- however, to my knowledge it is a workable beta product, and many of the more advanced things that I would like to do depend on a bit of history of auctions/prices/etc. EVEbay will be being enhanced for the foreseeable future -- I want to give it a few weeks to stabilize with (hopefully ) people using it and to iron out any kinks in what is already there, and after that I hope to slowly build more advanced features into the site.
Who is responsible for this site? Who do I send comments and/or suggestions and/or bug-reports to? Me! Sorai.  I will also be monitoring these threads, if you wish to post to them; but I'd prefer if you contacted me directly through EVEmail so that I don't miss anything in forum-thread-clutter.
OK, already! Where is it? http://www.eve-bay.biz/ (IGB-friendly)
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Sorai
Carbide Industries
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Cigs Mcduff
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:09:00 -
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Edited by: Cigs Mcduff on 18/04/2006 04:12:32
I thought this was going to be some rant about another isk selling site lol!!
am i normal?
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Toksin
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:09:00 -
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Good idea.
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mazzilliu
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:13:00 -
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yay 3rd post
it would be nice if evebay was integrated with the ingame browser, rather then requiring us to create our own accounts we could just use our in game names
good idea anywyas
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Zero35
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:14:00 -
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Pooooottroto Swapo
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:15:00 -
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 Originally by: mazzilliu
yay 3rd post
it would be nice if evebay was integrated with the ingame browser, rather then requiring us to create our own accounts we could just use our in game names
good idea anywyas
aye *registers as Tank CEO* and buys everything.
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Sorai
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:16:00 -
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Originally by: mazzilliu
yay 3rd post
it would be nice if evebay was integrated with the ingame browser, rather then requiring us to create our own accounts we could just use our in game names
good idea anywyas
I would love that mazzilliu! However, I can't implement it, for security reasons... I know for a fact that CCP is aware of the problem, and I hope they are working on it! As soon as they have a fix in so that the IGB headers can be absolutely trusted, I will definitely implement that.
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Taralesk Inshani
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:50:00 -
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I like it, very nice job. 
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Beringe
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Posted - 2006.04.18 04:53:00 -
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Looks great! Let me be the first one to say: Finally we have a proper bidding system to use in-game.
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Arkanor
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:12:00 -
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Edited by: Arkanor on 18/04/2006 05:12:41
Sounds good but the "Ebay" bidding system lends itself to "shill bidding," artificially increasing an item's price, is there any way to deal with that?
TBH I'd love to use it to buy something, but it needs to catch on to the mainstream 
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Originally by: Imperial Baddour
I just lost my ship, and dont feel like playing anymore!
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Lefia
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:26:00 -
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Edited by: Lefia on 18/04/2006 05:26:59
Nice. This will hold me over until the new escrow changes are implimented to include auctions.
Hope this has a sticky somewhere... I would very much like a nice uniform system of auctioning to become popular... instead of the forums.
Originally by: hired goon
I agree with every point and counter point that has been brought up in this and every other argument ever had.
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Chribba
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:28:00 -
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Good luck with the site, we need a site of this type however it has been tried a number of times (myself included) but always fall out on people still using the sell orders forum, but hopefully people get used to use yours so hope it works out.
/c
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Kaemonn
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:29:00 -
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Do not cross post. Thanks.
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