Flights for EBay Live - Southern Ontario PSers

mcmdinc
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If any S. Ontario PSers were planning on heading to Boston, and haven't booked flights yet...

Toronto - Boston with Air Canada was running CA$491.51 including tax

Buffalo - Boston with US Airways or Jet Blue out of Buffalo US$95.30 including tax

FYI
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jakeeangel
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LOL

Sorry but I have to laugh. I wonder with such huge differences how Canadian airlines manage to stay in business at all. 😞 That's disgusting!

I haven't flown out of Toronto in about 10 years. Take a look at their 9/11 security charge. Canada was NOT attacked yet our 9/11 charge is higher than that of American flights. I just can't wrap my head around that one.

Anyways, sorry for ranting/venting.....I hope those going have a blast and learn lots of things, make friends, make contacts etc. Remember! Get the business cards of the various Pinks you meet. It's always good to have an actual person you can contact and a number you can call.



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*stealthtech*
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Ouch 😮 That's a big price there from Toronto! I will drive you down from Toronto for 1/2 of that if you want to car-pool...lol...

The business card thing is a good idea 😉 I will have to do that when I am there. Click to visit sell-ur-stuff.com


Click to visit sell-ur-stuff.com
http://pages.ebay.ca/theme/mystoryarchive/sean.html

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katiusciav
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you're telling me...i'm originally from sault ste marie, and a flight from ottawa to the sault...no word of a lie...1000.00 return...its cheaper to go from here to florida for god's sakes. i remember ten years ago while in university, i could catch a flight for under a hundred bucks...not anymore...its ridiculous!
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puddle_hopper
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If you are in Southwestern Ontario...leave from Detroit. You'll save hundreds....
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segurotech-com
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Yah im definetly taking the buffulo to boston route. Thanks for the tip mcmdinc!!!

Now i gotta find a cheap way to get from Mississauga to Buffalo. Any Car Powerpoolers in the GTA??? lol
SEGUROTECH
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They told those who attended eBay University in Toronto today that they could get in to eBay Live free if they paid for the course today. (I assume that means our guests who attended free don't get that bonus.) But they didn't tell us how to get the discount. But that's okay, I can't afford the flight anyway! Maybe I could get me husband to ship me via Canada Post!! But then I would get there 10 days after the conference ended--a no win situation! lol
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jakeeangel
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Hey you were there?

I was the bigmouth who stood up and said the PayPal Seller Protection Policy is useless for Canadians because we can't get tracking on Lettermail or Small Packets. :^O LOL

I'm sorry but that irked me so bad that they stand up there and smile. PayPal will cover you. 🙂 If you get a chargeback or you get an unauthorized claim, PayPal will cover you. ffftttt ya right! They're lying to these people. Somebody had to say something. geeze

Wish we could have met. 🙂

I don't think that that announcement was right, frankly. When I went to the eBay U last year they only gave attendees a $10 off coupon. But who knows, maybe they're desperate to have Canadians going to Live. I just don't think it was right. I'll be pleasantly shocked if it is, but I don't think so.



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You could be right. She obviously was not given all of the information about it and the eBay staff didn't seem to know either. I was kind of wondering too why they needed that many staff there just to take registration first thing in the morning. Is that our listing fees at work?
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jakeeangel
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Those folks at the tables were event staff hired by .com not .ca and it wasn't our fees but the $60 admission. I actually like that they have that many people there to move things along. You should have seen the mess at the .ca run eBay On The Road. It was staffed by volunteers like myself and others. Only 3 of us at the tables and it was NOT fast, let me assure you.

The eBay staff were there to supervise us, talk to each other set up other things and do the discussion but we were admitting people. With paperwork that was poorly organized and not explained well enough if you ask me. I ran an office so they could have easily just dropped the list in front of me and I would have run with it but some were not experienced with stuff like that. I helped out a few of them.

I liked the US setup. Computers, quick, easy & staffed by people that understood what they were doing. Some of the volunteers at OTR were nice but not very quick on the organizational skill. HUH? The list was in alphabetical order by last name and they had a bugger of a time finding people, line ups formed, people were upset...etc etc...lots of silliness.

No Marsha didn't know what was going on with that offer. I talked briefly with her afterwards and she didn't seem all that impressed with the lack of info that she was given and that none of the .ca staff stuck around to offer further info. I was disappointed in that. It didn't strike me as being very professional.



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There were a lot of people there and I'm sure it did speed things up. We got there very early before any line-up formed. Marsha did very well considering that her information was not up-to-date with the changes in the format of the presentation. I don't think she ever did get an answer from eBay staff to any of her questions to them. But it was also good that they didn't stick around because then she could say what she pleased. I like her!
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bestshowtime
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For me, It is very interesting why some sellers want to visit eBay live???
Kill some real time for nothing, meet another people or something else! May be is better spend some time with your family or friends on vacation and just read book for dummies our best powerseller Bill(treasure-pot) in the evening!!!:-):-x
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