bbarsh wrote:
King,
Try hitting the auction only tab. I get just under 500 lisitngs.
And yes, I seem to remember getting some sort of free listing day or some such email from ebay last week.

.....At a March 25 meeting of the Armed Services Committee, of which Rep. Johnson is a member, the esteemed congressman had an interesting discussion with Robert Willard, commander of the United States Pacific fleet. The topic: Guam. Specifically, how an influx of Marines and their families may cause the tiny island to "tip over and capsize."

The comments were delivered without a clear hint of sarcasm or irony, however Rep. Johnson is now insisting through a comment issued by a spokesperson that he was simply using a metaphor.

"I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents -- an additional 80,000 people during peak construction to the port on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 -- could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the island's fragile ecosystem and overburden its already overstressed infrastructure."Maybe so, but Admiral Willard responded to the question with the utmost sincerity. His answer to Rep. Johnson's concerns over Guam capsizing like a lily pad playing host to an obese frog (our words)...

"We don't anticipate that. The Guam population, I think, currently about 175,000, and again, with 8,000 marines and their families, it's an addition of about 25,000 more into the population."We're inclined to give Rep. Johnson the benefit of the doubt, but many Web searchers aren't so sure. After news of the bizarre exchange hit the Internet, online lookups for "hank johnson guam" and "guam sinking" both roared to life. The odd comment and clarification have also proven irresistible fodder for talk radio hosts, notes Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Jim Galloway.

Below, a clip of the exchange. Concerns over Guam's ability to stay literally or figuratively afloat occur at around the 1:18 mark.

ashmire13 wrote:I thought your original post was good too  

Zenopus wrote:

And meanwhile, the min BIN listing fees for non-stores are now up to 50 cents. Auctions are free if starting at 99 cents, otherwise 25 cents up to 25 dollars, more if higher. Final Value Fees have also increased:

Auctions are all 9% (was 8.75% of first $25, 3.5% of remainder)
BINs are 12% up to $50 for RPG, 15% for books.

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation ... e2010.html

I wonder if we'll see a flood of dollar-store auctions?

bbarsh wrote:
I was living in the late 70s and I would have been in middle school or early high school. And my first ever speech in school was on conservation (as in national parks and the like). So yes, I was most likely in favor of less pollution. But I am not a proponent of over-regulation by the federal government. Unchecked pollution is bad in anyone's book. Unchecked government is equally as bad. The nightmare that is fast becoming our federal government is not step in the right direction.