Board Squares:
- There are nine squares to a side with each side sharing the corner squares.
- Begin
is Square One. When a player lands on Square One after their first move, they collect money as indicated in Rule 1 below
and draw an eBay Rules Card
- Square Two: 10¢ Listing Day. Land here and you get $10.00 in
eBay
- Land
The
Game™
Bucks.
- Square Three: Turbo Lister.
The latest upgrades have screwed everything up destroying your backups and delaying your
listings. Roll the die again: if an even number the bank pays you $15.00 because you didn't upgrade; if an odd number you pay
the bank $10.00 for uploading automatically without checking the boards.
- Square Four: eBay Live! is in your area. If you plan to attend,
pay the bank $10.00, otherwise the bank pays you $20.00.
- Square Five (center square side one): shIT Happens Again!. Draw a card from the stack indicated.
- Square Six: Feedback Hell. You receive a negative feedback. Add one neg to your feedback count. Once you get twenty (20) negs,
you get a game suspension regardless of how much money you have accumulated. You will be reinstated when we feel like it and we don't have
to tell you when that will be.
- Square Seven: Power Seller Status
is achieved. This and 75 cents at the Gas N Gulp will get you a cup of coffee.
- Square Eight: Search Engine Upgraded
and now your listings don't show up anywhere. Pay bank $10.00
- Square Nine (first corner square):
eBay
- Land
The
Game
Card Time! Draw one card and follow instructions on the card.
- Square Ten: Non-Performing Seller Restriction.
Your listings are cut 75% for a month. You lose your next turn.
- Square Eleven: your horoscope says to go back two spaces.
- Square Twelve: TBA
- Square Thirteen (center square side two): you're IT! Roll the sh-IT Die and draw a card from the stack indicated.
- Square Fourteen: eBay Changes Listing Rules and, next day, before you can change your listings, eBay
terminates your auctions for listing violations.
You pay bank $20.00.
- Square Fifteen: on advice from eBay, you purchase at close-out Brand Name Stock to sell. eBay didn't tell you they restrict name
brand listings and you are sitting on a lot of unmoveable merchandise that you can't return. You pay bank $20.00.
- Square Sixteen: Latest Negative Feedback Removed because buyer
NARU'd before ninety days. Bank pays you $10.00.
- Square Seventeen (far corner square) is You've Been VeRO'd
(also called VeRO
Hell).
Unless you have the Tabberone Playing Piece, you must stay on this square, drawing a new card each turn, until you:
- Buy your way out; first offense is pay the bank $25.00, second offense is pay the bank $100.00,
third offense (or more) you are suspended from selling and the amount to buy your way out is
proprietary. Every suspension by a player is logged.
- Roll the die, once each time when it is your turn, calling out the number and if the number comes up that you
called, you are free.
- Repeat Offenders, if you cannot afford to buy your way out, or prefer to roll the die, there is leniency:
- First-Time Offender, after two rolls of the die without getting free, call-out procedure is reversed;
when it is your turn, call out the number and if the number doesn't comes up that you called, you are free.
- Second-Time Offender, after four rolls of the die without getting free, call-out procedure is reversed;
when it is your turn, call out the number and if the number doesn't comes up that you called, you are free.
- Third-Time Offender, you just don't seem to learn, so, tough apples, stay there until you get the number you call.
- Use your Counter-VeRO card to get out immediately, or at any time you wish. You must then return the
Counter-VeRO card to the bottom of the Card Deck.
- If the drawn
VeRO
Hell
Card asks a question, answering the question correctly also gets you out of
VeRO
Hell.
- Square Eighteen: Pump Your Feedback Up by selling 1¢ downloadable recipes; eBay doesn't care. People have been doing this
for years and eBay has never stopped them. Bank pays you $10.00.
- Square Nineteen: Drop Shipper Deal collapses when customs seizes his inventory. Your feedback plummets when merchandise fails to arrive.
eBay suspends you even though eBay was warned about this shipper. Pay bank $20.00.
- Square Twenty: Record Earnings for eBay means Meg Whitman gets a really big bonus as CEO; eBay raises fees to recoup, again.
Pay bank $20.00.
- Square Twenty-one (center square side three): IT's here! Roll the sh-IT Die and draw a card from the stack indicated.
- Square Twenty-two: Feedback Hell. You receive a negative feedback. Add one neg to your feedback count. Once you get twenty (20) negs,
you get a game suspension regardless of how much money you have accumulated. You will be reinstated when we feel like it and we don't have
to tell you when that will be.
- Square Twenty-three: eBay's Refer A Friend Program; you refer your ex who now is no longer speaking to you. Get bonus from bank of $20.00.
- Square Twenty-four: Nothing Goes Wrong Day; nothing for you to complain about. Bank pays you $10.00.
- Square Twenty-five (third corner square): shIT Happens Card. Draw one card and follow
instruction on the card.
- Square Twenty-six: Buyer files Item Not Received complaint with PayPal. You shipped with delivery confirmation and win the dispute.
Bank pays you $10.00.
- Square Twenty-seven: your horoscope says to go back two spaces, again. Boring horoscope you have.
- Square Twenty-eight: eBay's Newsletter Helps you modify your business plan based upon such advice as your selling price must exceed
your total costs. WOW! Bank pays you $10.00.
- Square Twenty-nine (center square side four): IT's here! Roll the sh-IT Die and draw a card from the stack indicated.
- Square Thirty: TBA
- Square Thirty-one: Postal Rates Increased, again, you stay up all night changing your 1,500 store listings' shipping quotes.
Pay bank $20.00
- Square Thirty-two: PayPal Account Frozen for "review" by Paypal, eBay unable to collect seller's fees and suspends seller for
non-payment. Pay bank $20.00.
View Playing Board, (Alpha Version).
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