Longest ebay member you've seen?

kiwi_fruit

I was just checking somebody's feedback and noticed their "member since" date http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=mom3&ftab=FeedbackLeftForOthers which made me think when did ebay actually start? Does anyone know any of the first registered members?
Proud to say our own(with other half, originally just his before we met) main account is going to be 10 years old in a few days time:j

mobile48

This guy claims to be the longest in the world in his listings (member since Oct-29-95):

http://myworld.ebay.com/redmontccod/

eBay was created in September 1995.

The earliest UK Member I found:

Member since: 22-Sep-96
Location: United Kingdom

Found an ebay fact that First member to get 100,000 Feedback in 2002 was:

http://stores.ebay.com/JayAndMarie

Dont think anyone has a million yet but she is not far off now. I will keep an eye on her so I can leave the 1 millionth feedback.

bravobeastie

mobile48 wrote: »

Found an ebay fact that First member to get 100,000 Feedback in 2002 was:

http://stores.ebay.com/JayAndMarie

Dont think anyone has a million yet but she is not far off now. I will keep an eye on her so I can leave the 1 millionth feedback.

good lord! over 1800 negatives in 12 months :eek:

ps, I know that's only a small fraction compared to the positives but even so.
:rotfl:

tryingtogetsolvent

I joined October 98 having used my American girlfriends account ( she's now my wife) for a few months prior to that. It was all new and fun back then, although there wasn't much on ebay there was a good atmosphere and everyone was selling just to shift old stuff and make friends and not really worried about making money.
I remember getting a christmas card from a lady I sold something to earlier in the year as It was her first ever ebay purchase. One particluar music group whose records I used to collect had about 10 listings, now usually its around 1500!

StaffsSW

bravobeastie wrote: »

good lord! over 1800 negatives in 12 months :eek:

ps, I know that's only a small fraction compared to the positives but even so.
:rotfl:

It is the market they are trading in - second user media. Very difficult customer base to meet the expectations. They are very well known on the US ebay social scene though, and often appear on TV

This is the oldest registered account I can find - http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=AllFeedback&userid=a&iid=-1&de=off&interval=0&items=100


The highest ranked sellers on ebay are - http://myworld.ebay.com/eforcity
http://myworld.ebay.com/accstation
http://myworld.ebay.com/itrimming
http://myworld.ebay.com/everydaysource
then Jay & Marie

3 of the top 5 are all owned by the same guy as well, Jack Sheng.

Crowqueen

1989?! ----!!!

mobile48

stevew8975 wrote: »

This is the oldest registered account I can find - http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=AllFeedback&userid=a&iid=-1&de=off&interval=0&items=100

Member since: Dec-31-89 in United States!!!

Not only before ebay started but before the www.

I think this was the date time was counted from on DOS at some point???

Their ebay name of "a" suggest it was a special account. No longer registered. What a strange account.

kiwi_fruit

wow that's some impressive stuff! But 1989!! Surely there wasn't internet available for general public in the 80s..?

StaffsSW

kiwi_fruit wrote: »

wow that's some impressive stuff! But 1989!! Surely there wasn't internet available for general public in the 80s..?

The first versions of the internet as we know it now started in the mid 80's, and American universities connected up in the late 80's early 90's, and my school was connected up the year I left in '92.

Given that ebay only started in '95, I guess that must be a test account.

First copy of ebay on Wayback machine is 1997 and looks like this - http://web.archive.org/web/19990117033159/pages.ebay.com/aw/index.html

mobile48

Thanks for posting the wayback machine link - I meant to but completely forgot about it.

Here the earliest moneysavingexpert page I found from 2003.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030802235522/www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Crowqueen

kiwi_fruit wrote: »

wow that's some impressive stuff! But 1989!! Surely there wasn't internet available for general public in the 80s..?

Looks like quite an entertaining typo or glitch as their oldest feedback is from 1998.