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The purpose of this topic is to help aggrieved consumers to decide whether they are being scammed, flimflammed, and/or bamboozled by paid word-of-mouth advertisers employed or contracted by, or working on behalf of unscrupulous online payment services. While normally the focus here is to avoid...

Hilarious! From the comments at auctionbytes letters to the editor, whe it appears eb is sending their paid trolls to try and hornswaggle the public and steer the topics with some all too obvious BS.... (Hats off to the poster/commenter here!!! :))) ''our LiveWorld moderators or community manager...

Astroturfing threat to internet GEORGE MONBIOT - Dec 20 2010 14:25 They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the haystack-burning, fence-toppling protests by peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the c...

FTC Moves To Enforce Rules Against False Online Ads By Barry Levine August 27, 2010 10:37AM An astroturfing settlement with a public-relations agency has launched the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on false online advertising. Reverb Communications has agreed to stop posting fake game r...

Absolutely hilarious! Tales From The eBay Paid Pumper Diary! by admin on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 With all the stories circulating on the net about eBay's alleged "Black Budget" that was used to fund anything that eBay did not want on its books, the thought of paid message board and blo...

Understanding ebaY Community Forums Dynamics enjoy!

Hilarious! Once again an ebay employee gets caught shilling inflagrante delicto at auctionbytes. eBay Favors Brands and Retailers in Search Results Uploaded with ImageShack.us Please keep in mind that the practice of using paid-word-of-mouth endorsers without proper disclosure is unlawf...

Now you too can be one of the few, the paid, the trolls! Help stamp out consumer rights and free speech! Make the world safe for corporate pimps, conmen and thieves! Advance to the secret bogus chargeback or circular counterfeit crew! Liveworld Moderation Personnel Application Uploaded with Image...

Ebay kommietards are showing their true colors. "Spin City: eBay Struggles to Control the Message" AuctionBytes Bites Back at eBay ebaY Spins and Loses!

Here we go, this is a must read. Then checkout the comments section. I can't help but wonder if these abusive trolls & stalkers (whom are probably on sleazebay's payroll) will be the death of ebay? Arrogant Seller Admits To Being A Thief In A Public Forum Wow.. Fastestnickel AKA Onefastnickel e...

Oh look what the thieves at preypal are up to this time! They decide to freeze $50,000 of a sellers money over a question of a $4500 dispute. On top of that, they are trying to call it a 'reserve'. (On what is likely to be a bogus claim to begin with) Ridiculous! Fraud! Plain and simple! Uploaded with Image...

It doesn't get much more funny than this! Ebay is again re-designing IT's forums. Obviously a move to silence the noise, to further splinter and divide the people, to make the forums less usable and more unpleasant Coming soon: New design and features for the US Discussion Boards Here are a couple...

Saturday, May 28, 2011Good-Bye, eBay and PayPal (and Good Riddance!) bwhahahhahahhahahahaaaaaa! Oh my... -- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 12:39:14 AM

ebaY Critic ebaymotorssucks.com Site Hit with DdoS Attack There's been more developments on this since the blog post. Basically it looks as though some entity wants this longtime ebay critic site, ebaymotorssucks.com off the air. Read the comments, then youtube vids: eBayMotorsSucks.com We...

ForumCon 2011 John Bodine Talks About eBay Forum ManipulationBy admin, on September 30th, 2011 Here is an interesting video i found on you tube. Its often said that eBay Pinks get hateful replies to any board posts they either start or engage in. Lets face it, eBay is not a happy place like it was years a...

Fake Persuaders!!!Getting Caught!!! more at link... Whole Foods Is Hot, Wild Oats a Dud -- So Said 'Rahodeb' Then Again, Yahoo Poster Was a Whole Foods Staffer, The CEO to Be Precise By DAVID KESMODEL and JOHN R. WILKE July 12, 2007; Page A1 In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb&quo...

The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty By Tom Foremski February 14, 2012, 5:45pm PSTSummary: Increasing numbers of studies of social networks point to much smaller numbers of real and active users - sharply reducing the value of the platforms, and social me...

Ebay employees should not be moderators of this subreddit. It is a blatant conflict of interest Small drama on /r/ebay because a mod is also an eBay employee -- Edited by budnonymous on Saturday 14th of April 2012 07:36:40 AM

A triple feature video post regarding the fallout from this Google Vs Oracle situation, to demonstrate that these big corporations lie, cheat, break the law, and display unbelivable levels of arrogance and hubris, all while trying to censor the word of the average person whom has any negative com...

ebaY Employee Astroturfer Busted Badgering Bloggers cut to the quick here at EcommerceBytes blog, set your CTRL and F for birdieman or here it is documented: http://wp.me/p46z9-IA

LoL! Once more this topic comes up with predictable results. Question- How many "Community Members" are... ...employed by Ebay to either difuse or re-direct regular folks who come here with legitimate Ebay criticisms. It seems that on various threads that attack Ebay, the same peo...

hmm... can't help but wonder why they are showing the ebaY sign here?

Hate those fake five-star Internet reviews? One state's elaborate sting is cracking down on them with fines (video and more at link) -- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 25th of September 2013 04:37:20 AM

10 October 2013eBay Stock Is On Fire Meme eBay Stock Is On Fire Meme EventHorizon1984 10 October 2013 "well-biased samples can be employed to produce almost any result anyone may wish." Darrel Huff, How To Lie With Statistics A recent variation of the meme "eBay INC is a long term sto...

Originally discovered and posted here; If you can read this, reblog, post, and/or tweet it! The ebay community and forums are the zone of the target! The job/freelance ad is still active. Elance Job For eBay Amazon Forum Shills & Diffusers

	Forum	Replies	Views	Last Post
forums shills Astroturfers sandypurins (Preview)	CAPP	8	5809	Mar 16, 2012 by budnonymous
The purpose of this topic is to help aggrieved consumers to decide whether they are being scammed, flimflammed, and/or bamboozled by paid word-of-mouth advertisers employed or contracted by, or working on behalf of unscrupulous online payment services. While normally the focus here is to avoid...
shills Astroturfers forums social networking From the lips of Lieworld (Preview)	CAPP	0	5133	Aug 9, 2010 by budnonymous
Hilarious! From the comments at auctionbytes letters to the editor, whe it appears eb is sending their paid trolls to try and hornswaggle the public and steer the topics with some all too obvious BS.... (Hats off to the poster/commenter here!!! :))) *''our LiveWorld moderators or community manager...*
shills Astroturfers forums Astroturfing threat to internet (Preview)	CAPP	0	1063	Dec 20, 2010 by budnonymous
Astroturfing threat to internet GEORGE MONBIOT - Dec 20 2010 14:25 They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the haystack-burning, fence-toppling protests by peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the c...
Astroturfers FTC shills undisclosed FTC Moves To Enforce Rules Against False Online Ads (Preview)	CAPP	0	858	Aug 28, 2010 by budnonymous
FTC Moves To Enforce Rules Against False Online Ads By Barry Levine August 27, 2010 10:37AM An astroturfing settlement with a public-relations agency has launched the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on false online advertising. Reverb Communications has agreed to stop posting fake game r...
shills Astroturfers pumpers forums Yahoo finance Tales From The eBay Paid Pumper Diary! (Preview)	CAPP	0	1021	Aug 28, 2010 by budnonymous
Absolutely hilarious! Tales From The eBay Paid Pumper Diary! by admin on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 With all the stories circulating on the net about eBay's alleged "Black Budget" that was used to fund anything that eBay did not want on its books, the thought of paid message board and blo...
ebaY Paypal community shills Astroturfers pumpers forums Yahoo finance video Understanding ebaY Community Forums Dynamics (Preview)	CAPP	2	1379	Nov 11, 2012 by budnonymous
Understanding ebaY Community Forums Dynamics enjoy!
shills Astroturfers forums FTC complain ebaY Paid Astroturfer Busted Dead in the Rights. Again. (Preview)	CAPP	1	1153	Sep 5, 2010 by budnonymous
Hilarious! Once again an ebay employee gets caught shilling inflagrante delicto at auctionbytes. eBay Favors Brands and Retailers in Search Results Uploaded with ImageShack.us Please keep in mind that the practice of using paid-word-of-mouth endorsers without proper disclosure is unlawf...
shills astroturfers forums.LOLz Liveworld Moderation Personnel Application (Preview)	CAPP	1	1384	Jul 30, 2010 by budnonymous
Now you too can be one of the few, the paid, the trolls! Help stamp out consumer rights and free speech! Make the world safe for corporate pimps, conmen and thieves! Advance to the secret bogus chargeback or circular counterfeit crew! Liveworld Moderation Personnel Application Uploaded with Image...
ebay shills astroturfers scandal John Rathert auctionbytes sleazebay "Spin City: eBay Struggles to Control the Message" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1191	May 1, 2009 by budnonymous
Ebay kommietards are showing their true colors. "Spin City: eBay Struggles to Control the Message" AuctionBytes Bites Back at eBay ebaY Spins and Loses!
ebay forums ebaymotors shills astroturfers sleazebay Arrogant Seller Admits To Being A Thief In A Public Forum (Preview)	CAPP	0	1217	Apr 23, 2011 by budnonymous
Here we go, this is a must read. Then checkout the comments section. I can't help but wonder if these abusive trolls & stalkers (whom are probably on sleazebay's payroll) will be the death of ebay? Arrogant Seller Admits To Being A Thief In A Public Forum Wow.. Fastestnickel AKA Onefastnickel e...
paypal freeze nightmare holds policies astroturfers forums complain fraud scam Money Transmitter license complaint sleazebay PayPal freezes $50K Account, Calls it a "reserve" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1244	Apr 27, 2011 by budnonymous
Oh look what the thieves at preypal are up to this time! They decide to freeze $50,000 of a sellers money over a question of a $4500 dispute. On top of that, they are trying to call it a 'reserve'. (On what is likely to be a bogus claim to begin with) Ridiculous! Fraud! Plain and simple! Uploaded with Image...
ebay forums redesign shills astroturfers lieworld fail video UK ebaY's latest Move to Exterminate the "Community" (Preview)	CAPP	3	1652	Aug 26, 2011 by budnonymous
It doesn't get much more funny than this! Ebay is again re-designing IT's forums. Obviously a move to silence the noise, to further splinter and divide the people, to make the forums less usable and more unpleasant Coming soon: New design and features for the US Discussion Boards Here are a couple...
ebay paypal forums shills astroturfers censorship complain complaint Observations: Good-Bye, eBay and PayPal (and Good Riddance!) (Preview)	CAPP	11	1760	Jun 28, 2011 by budnonymous
Saturday, May 28, 2011Good-Bye, eBay and PayPal (and Good Riddance!) bwhahahhahahhahahahaaaaaa! Oh my... -- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 12:39:14 AM
ebay criticism DdoS hacked shills astroturfers ebaymotors ebaY Critic ebaymotorssucks.com Site Hit with DdoS Attack (Preview)	CAPP	2	1139	Aug 20, 2011 by budnonymous
ebaY Critic ebaymotorssucks.com Site Hit with DdoS Attack There's been more developments on this since the blog post. Basically it looks as though some entity wants this longtime ebay critic site, ebaymotorssucks.com off the air. Read the comments, then youtube vids: eBayMotorsSucks.com We...
ebay forums astroturfers shills ForumCon 2011 John Bodine Talks About eBay Forum Manipulation (Preview)	CAPP	2	2450	Sep 23, 2014 by Naru Messenger
ForumCon 2011 John Bodine Talks About eBay Forum ManipulationBy admin, on September 30th, 2011 Here is an interesting video i found on you tube. Its often said that eBay Pinks get hateful replies to any board posts they either start or engage in. Lets face it, eBay is not a happy place like it was years a...
shills astroturfers forums Chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc - Message Board Shill (Preview)	CAPP	0	1115	Jul 13, 2007 by budnonymous
Fake Persuaders!!!Getting Caught!!! more at link... Whole Foods Is Hot, Wild Oats a Dud -- So Said 'Rahodeb' Then Again, Yahoo Poster Was a Whole Foods Staffer, The CEO to Be Precise By DAVID KESMODEL and JOHN R. WILKE July 12, 2007; Page A1 In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb&quo...
shills astroturfers social networking fraud Internet Water Army trust ebay paypal twitter The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty (Preview)	CAPP	5	2244	Aug 8, 2013 by budnonymous
The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty By Tom Foremski February 14, 2012, 5:45pm PSTSummary: Increasing numbers of studies of social networks point to much smaller numbers of real and active users - sharply reducing the value of the platforms, and social me...
sleazebay shills astroturfers employees reddit Ebay employees should not be moderators of this subreddit (Preview)	CAPP	0	764	Apr 14, 2012 by budnonymous
Ebay employees should not be moderators of this subreddit. It is a blatant conflict of interest Small drama on /r/ebay because a mod is also an eBay employee -- Edited by budnonymous on Saturday 14th of April 2012 07:36:40 AM
google oracle shills astroturfers social media video news reporting journalism PR Google Vs Oracle: Busted for Astroturfing (Preview)	CAPP	0	955	Aug 22, 2012 by budnonymous
A triple feature video post regarding the fallout from this Google Vs Oracle situation, to demonstrate that these big corporations lie, cheat, break the law, and display unbelivable levels of arrogance and hubris, all while trying to censor the word of the average person whom has any negative com...
ebay shills astroturfers personnel employee sleazebay ebaY Employee Astroturfer Busted Badgering Bloggers (Preview)	CAPP	0	750	Jul 24, 2013 by budnonymous
ebaY Employee Astroturfer Busted Badgering Bloggers cut to the quick here at EcommerceBytes blog, set your CTRL and F for birdieman or here it is documented: http://wp.me/p46z9-IA
ebaY forums shills astroturfers fake Question- How many "Community Members" are... (and jobs posting on ebaY forums) (Preview)	CAPP	0	868	Sep 19, 2013 by budnonymous
LoL! Once more this topic comes up with predictable results. Question- How many "Community Members" are... ...employed by Ebay to either difuse or re-direct regular folks who come here with legitimate Ebay criticisms. It seems that on various threads that attack Ebay, the same peo...
shills fake astroturfers reviews paypal ebay Operation Clean Turf Hate those fake five-star Internet reviews? One state's elaborate sting is cracking down on them with fines (Preview)	CAPP	2	839	Sep 25, 2013 by budnonymous
hmm... can't help but wonder why they are showing the ebaY sign here? Hate those fake five-star Internet reviews? One state's elaborate sting is cracking down on them with fines (video and more at link) -- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 25th of September 2013 04:37:20 AM
ebay finance pumpers shills astroturfers image eBay Stock Is On Fire Meme (Preview)	CAPP	1	825	Oct 17, 2013 by budnonymous
10 October 2013eBay Stock Is On Fire Meme eBay Stock Is On Fire Meme EventHorizon1984 10 October 2013 *"well-biased samples can be employed to produce almost any result anyone may wish."* *Darrel Huff, How To Lie With Statistics* A recent variation of the meme "eBay INC is a long term sto...
ebay forums shills astroturfers posers Elance Job For eBay Amazon Forum Shills & Diffusers (Preview)	CAPP	0	1059	Jan 9, 2014 by budnonymous
Originally discovered and posted here; If you can read this, reblog, post, and/or tweet it! The ebay community and forums are the zone of the target! The job/freelance ad is still active. Elance Job For eBay Amazon Forum Shills & Diffusers