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<0> I'm suprised that the US ebay number works here...
<0> generally US 800 numbers don't work in Canada
<1> yea. many companies don't want to pay the higher rates
<0> but that's beside the point.
<1> it is nice that i can call canada without having to do some crazy exchange codes
<0> How can it be that ebay canada has no main switchboard?
<2> because they cut COSTS ?
<3> Ebay.ca: 4169692290
<1> it is entirely possible that there is no phone number for ebay.ca .. does ebay have a physical presence in canada or is it online-only?
<0> setz: Where'd you get that #?
<3> whois ebay.ca
<4> ebay.ca is not known to me.
<0> i'll try it...
<0> bah...
<0> answering machine... not even indicative that it was ebay
<3> 800-322-9266 888-749-3229 are a couple other numbers for ebay
<0> setz: somebody from ebay called me on Friday
<0> and I wasn't home.
<3> 800-322-9266 and there is another one.
<0> I've been trying to call them since yesterday... and just getting a machine.
<5> That's the one you gave before, Setz
<0> Setz: Tried that. He knows nothing about the hockey pool
<3> MarkT: so leave a message on their machine.
<0> Setz: I have done.
<3> Two: so it is.
<3> MarkT: then what's the problem?
<0> Three times now.
<2> What's the name of X startup script, ~/.xinirc ?
<5> .xinitrc, note the t
<0> Because the rules of the contest say that winners have 2 weeks to respond after being contacted or they forfeit their prize... it's 4 days gone so I'm down to 10 days left.
<2> right
<2> heh. "To respond"
<5> You can gather the money to fly out within 10 days.
<2> Does it mean you are at their mercy ?
<0> Two: No I couldn't... I'm poor.
<0> Aeon: I don't know...
<5> I'm more poor than you, but I'm willing to donate the full cost of the ticket just to shut you up
<0> it's just damn frustrating that this person is never available.
<0> I've tried calling them back now maybe two dozen times or so...
<6> Two9A: poorer
<6> :)
<2> MarkT-: is there a "seller" on this item ?
<0> aeon: it's not an item. It was a contest.
<0> http://pages.ebay.ca/hockeypool
<5> MORE POOR
<2> dreama teama
<0> I feel like that person who got their wishes granted, but has to do a bunch of paperwork first and while in the middle of doing it all, her genie ended up getting fired, and suddenly she had nobody to deal with anymore.
<0> I mean, I know it's no million dollars or a life changing amount of money... but it woulda been really nice...
<7> /ne/ne
<3> *cough*scam*cough*
<8> Gee, I wonder if they'll want his bank account number, so they can deposit his winnings. :-)
<0> setz: y'think?
<7> Heh
<0> nogods: the winnings are supposed to be an ebay gift certificate.
<8> Well, that doesn't sound too dangerous, I must admit.
<7> Hm.
<0> It's just damn annoying that the person who called me doesn't seem to ever be at their desk.
<7> Mum gave me $100 to put on my school id to buy coffee on campus with
<7> heh
<9> MarkT-: Can you please help one of my Nigerian relatives get some money out of his country?
<10> Sounds like scam to me, MarkT-
<0> Malo: Quite a lot of effort has been gone to for this... I never got invited into this by email, it was something that I noticed when I visited ebay one time and thought I'd check it out.
<0> malo: the thing really is on the ebay.ca domain
<0> so if it's a scam, they've hacked ebay
<0> and as I said... the prize is in ebay gift certificates... not actual dollars.
<0> which is kind of weird for a scam, don't you think?
<11> sounds like a scam to me
<0> hmmm...
<0> that ****s.
<0> I'm usually pretty good at spotting scams.
<8> I agree that an ebay gift certificate, by itself, is pretty harmless. The question is, what other sort of information will they attempt to get, using the gift certificate as bait?
<9> There's always the option of working for money
<0> And I really can't find anything about this that would identify it as a scam
<0> as I said, the pages were really hosted on the ebay.ca domain
<12> markt: you've won a free car, please send over funds to ship the grand prize to you in the amount of $1,000
<0> darken: I wouldn't send any funds anywhere.
<12> ... but it's free
<0> And I haven't sent anybody any money
<8> Certainly, the fact that the contest was on ebay.ca gives it more credibility.
<0> Once somebody starts asking me for money, I'll start being more skeptical
<0> If it had cost me anything at all to enter this, I wouldn
<0> t have
<0> but I figured I had nothing to lose.
<13> there was this guy who auctioned away forehead space for commercials, now thats a great way to earn some cash
<0> I got lucky, and picked the right teams
<13> on ebay, I think
<1> I'm going to buy some forehead space and write "LOSER" on it.
<13> http://www.adjab.com/2006/01/09/forehead-advertiser-is-back/
<13> go for it OrngeTide
<12> lol
<13> Guess he'd have trouble if he was in the US, doing medical ads (the side effects must be there too)
<14> has anyone here ever built v9fs from source on FreeBSD ?
<14> .
<0> Hrmmm...
<0> Here's a thing...
<0> If this is a scam, how did they get my phone number? I never did any special registration to get into the hockey pool, but my contact info is registered with ebay...
<1> MarkT-, seems that most people with your last name are in alberta. but iirc you don't live in alberta.
<1> so they probably weren't able to look you up that easily.
<10> Corporations can host scams too
<10> If that is the case, I suppose you could get the prize if you push enough, MarkT-, but they won't come to you
<0> OT: I never gave them my name either... it used my ebay id and p***word.
<0> Mal: interesting... ebay pulling a scam? wow.
<10> Not a scam, but I suspect they won't run after you to pay if they can avoid it
<0> well, it's kind of hard for me to push about it if I can't even contact them...
<0> and they don't even have a general inquiry email address
<10> Phone numbers then?
<0> The only phone number I have is the one that the person that called me left, and that's a direct line, not to a switchboard.
<0> I also have the one for ebay canada that's just an automated information center, telling you where stuff is on the web site.
<10> You have been called? Well then, it seems they are aware of it enough
<0> Yes... they called me on Friday. I wasn't home, however.
<1> are channel keys case-sensitive?
<15> no.
<1> oh. okay. probably follows the same weird rules as nicks
<15> and channels.
<1> well you can't have the same characters in channel names... iirc
<1> hrm.. i guess you can. #k{3_ worked
<15> channels and nicks and keys and u@h aren't case sensitive.
<15> some characters are weird about case, yeah.
<15> damned finns.
<1> ahah. irssi has a bug with channel names that look different but are the same channel.
<0> hmmm
<0> Okay, this is definitely ebay...
<0> the hockeypool signin page is at https://signin.ebay.ca
<0> It's just so freakin' annoying that the only number listed for ebay canada is just an automated service that gives you verbal instructions on what to click on at their website to do X Y or Z...
<1> i never call phone numbers if i can avoid it.
<1> i'd rather do it all online. even if i have to send email or do an IM to customer service
<0> OT: online is fine too, but I want to interact with a real person
<1> i send emails to my bank all the time. it takes them about a day to reply. but it sure beats sitting on hold. i hate waiting on the phone more than just about anything.
<1> it's like root canal to me.
<0> Well, I haven't been put on hold
<0> I just haven't been able to get a hold of the person that called me because they are never in the office.
<16> lalala
<17> is 'doctor of complimentary medicine from sri lanka' a legitimate credential for a 'dr.'?
<18> anyone know how to set the vermagic string on a module when you're building it?
<17> in win32?
<18> linux
<18> building a kernel module. for some reason, its vermagic string is obscenely crazy and filled with lots of stuff that shouldn't really be there
<17> i don't know, but i ***umed it has a combination of things that came from the source file.
<18> instead of being '2.6.9-34.EL 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4', it's '2.6.9-34.EL .file null .section .debug_abbrev,,@progbits.Ldebug_abbrev0: .section .debug_info,,'... blahblah. it goes for about 3 times that long, and then ends with the '686 <etc>' bit.
<17> yeah i know what you're talking about but i dont have the slightest clue :)
<19> wow, that module is smoking something
<15> string issue?
<20> Woohoo, my Dragon Book came today!
<21> Humanoid: Heh, I already got it
<21> But by the time it arrived (it took several weeks) I lost interest in the topic
<21> But I guess it'll be a good read some day
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