"DMCVegas" (DMCVegas)
09/21/2014 at 23:31 • Filed to: Uber eBay
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"DMCVegas" (DMCVegas)
09/21/2014 at 23:31 • Filed to: Uber eBay | 3
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There was once a time when eBay was like a virtual swap meet for car parts. People would post auctions for those hard to obtain parts and you could easily find them. At least that's the way it was back around the turn of the century. But then came the universal fit parts and the shady sellers.
You know them. They SPAM eBay's auctions over and over again with the same craptastic parts again and again. Admittedly the funniest of these have been with the DeLorean DMC-12 with sellers offering up "Lambo Door Conversion Kits" and "Universal Sunroof Kits". Many within the community would troll these sellers asking how the kits worked, and all we got for answers was "Uh, just follow the instructions included". Hell, most didn't even know what Gullwing Doors were when we asked them.
But in the end, they won. Flooding eBay with garbage such as LED lights, universal Windshield Wipers, dragon-printed floor mats, etc. And they always brand these auctions as being exclusively for your particular model of car. Check the seller's other auctions, and they'll keep on advertising the same damn part over and over and over and over again for every make/model they can think of. And then they'll do it all over again for each color available. With the DeLorean category, we used to have about a couple hundred auctions on any given day. Now that number hovers around 14,000 auctions a day. And if you've got something more mainstream like a Mustang, a Camaro, or any Honda, that number now sits firmly in the millions of auctions. It's a pain in the ass to sift through, and makes looking for what you want painfully difficult since it's so frustrating.
So, what does this have to do with Uber? Well, as it turns out they're doing the exact same thing when it comes to recruiting. They're just filling up job boards with ads that contain key words for common jobs in the subject line, followed by "...- Make $600 this Weekend Driving Your Own Car - Join Uber X Now!". It keeps popping up over and over again with various searches for different jobs, and will clog your job search up just like parts shopping on eBay.
Frankly, it's getting pretty damn annoying.
Conan
> DMCVegas
09/21/2014 at 23:43 |
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Bleah. It doesn't help that they and Google want all cars to be robots eventually. Rockefeller/Vanderbilt part 2.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> DMCVegas
09/22/2014 at 00:30 |
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speaking of eBay God forbid you want to buy a new headlight. 850 listings. 10 are actual headlights. 5 are priced at 2x dealer cost. 2 are used but look like hell and 3 are actual legit replacements but 2 are priced $50 cheaper yet have $50 shipping cost. The other 840 are headlight bulbs, LED conversions, LED running lights, PnP HID kits, PnP HID w/bonus running lights - and all share 5 stock photos that just differ in color with writing typed all over the image.
Axial
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
09/22/2014 at 00:56 |
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Yay for sealed beams! Punch in the size number and boom, winner.