So anyway…

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I hope this will be the last entry in the ongoing saga of my unfair suspension from eBay (more entries on my unfair eBay suspension, the letter I sent to eBay regarding this unfair suspension, and an entry on my father-in-law’s unfair eBay suspension, and yes, I’m deliberately “seeding” those links so that search engines will more easily pick them up).

I got the email from eBay a couple hours ago (i.e., outside of Australian work hours, which means it was handled from somewhere else). There were two things to note. Firstly, there was no apology whatsoever, even though it was entirely their error. Secondly, they spelled my name wrong, despite having documentation in front of them (they even said in the email that they had reviewed the documentation!).

They also didn’t mention whether they had removed the board restriction which led to all this. I have zero intention of posting on eBay’s boards, but if my husband were to do so (since we share an IP address), we might have to go through this whole rigamarole again.

Meanwhile, my father-in-law has lodged a formal complaint against eBay with the Fair Trade Commission, complete with supporting documentation. He contacted eBay support SIX times and just got the runaround from them, so he just filed a complaint. What good it may do, I don’t know, but I hope he gets some satisfaction from it, in whatever way it comes.

And my brother-in-law, whose account was the first one suspended (apparently), just got fed up with them, deleted all eBay cookies, and got a new account, which is, of course, against the rules, but I’m not going to tell eBay about it. I have, of course, just published it in my blog, but I think the odds of any human at eBay actually reading my blog are slim to none, and, well, I can’t say I care much if my brother-in-law’s account gets suspended again because he’s actually breaking the rules (as opposed to not breaking them and getting suspended).

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There’s been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women’s gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I decided to take a page from my friend Johnny and investigate on my own. I have an Internet connection, that means I should be able to verify the age of the gymnasts in question with primary state-issued documents and find out for myself if someone’s cheating, right? Right. Let’s go to work.

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I don’t think I’ve posted this before (I can’t find it, anyway; perhaps I’m just going senile), but if I have, I don’t care. I saw it again tonight and laughed out loud. I just find it completely hilarious, thus proving once again that simple things amuse simple minds. Note: You really MUST have the sound on for this, or it’s not particularly funny.

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