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ebaY's forgotten failures and PR scams
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Hey whatever happened to the "ebay garage"? Was that just a big fake PR device intended to fool users and shareholders? It's been over a year since all the flap, and the website does not exist to this day, nor have we heard a peep about it again. Makes you wonder; how much of the other constant f...
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John Donahoe Declares Paypal a Major Global Bank
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Here you have it! FromBrazil is a priority for PayPal, says CEO original page (translated) [...] Financial institution. PayPal acts as a major global bank to move goods and money around the globe. O PayPal permite a transação entre qualquer comprador e vendedor do mundo. "PayPal lets any tra...
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PayPal Hits 100 Million Active Users
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PayPal Hits 100 Million Active Users PayPal has hit 100 million active users. The company confirmed the milestone today. Last week, the company announced that it was upping estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billi...
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Why you should never trust ebay with your life
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Ebay bid falls short for family selling everything This is the 2nd time this item has been listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Top eBayers bring in more than two-thirds of sales
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Top eBayers bring in more than two-thirds of sales "A few top sellers" account for more than two-thirds of eBay's total sales, according to the company's European vice-president. Clare Gilmartin made the claim during an interview with the Financial Mail Women's Forum published this w...
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eBay Unveils "When it's on your mind, it's on eBay" Advertising Campaign
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September 14, 2011 05:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time eBay Unveils "When it's on your mind, it's on eBay" Advertising CampaigneBay targets the "on-demand shopper" ahead of largest mobile shopping season SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eBay, the worlds largest online...
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eBay Tests Ads in Sellers Listings on US Site
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from eBay Tests Ads in Sellers Listings on US Site I see this: "Through the extensive inventory provided by our sellers, buyers have tremendous opportunity to find exactly what they are looking for," Hoff said. "In those rare instances where the item is not available on eBay, we wa...
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Now this is REAL FUNNY! ebaY Tries Blaming the entire nation of Romania
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I predict the hackers will open up with both barrels for this. Rathere than repair their messed-up site they continue to blame others. Not one page on ebay even wrings true at wc3, yet now an entire nation is at fault? Funny, they never said anything when the Chinese BIN bandits were ruining THOUSANDS a...
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ebaY Jay Leno Tonight Show Scarlett Johansson Snot Auction Video
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eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine
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eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine Skipping straight to the punch line: "At least eBay's management is for once admitting that they are listening to users." I believe this is the same search technology which made ebay express what IT is today.
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Ebay Kidnaps Santa Claus Again
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First Person: I Made $10,000 on eBay Last Year
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Now here is some epic ownage if I ever saw it! First off, this article is so blatantly fake you can smell it! Second, the comments are rolling fast & furious, so far over 2,500. By far they are mostly unfavorable to sleazebaY.First Person: I Made $10,000 on eBay Last Year Uploaded with ImageShack....
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What CEOs admire: John Donahoe of eBay
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What CEOs admire: John Donahoe of eBay March 1, 2012: 5:00 AM ET While it's fun to be the flavor of the week, eBay's top executive looks up to companies that manage through the tough times as well. snippit: Do philanthropic and social responsibility initiatives really help burnish a company's rep...
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eBay Playing, And Losing, The Retail Prediction Game
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eBay Playing, And Losing, The Retail Prediction Game Written by Evan SchumanMarch 6th, 2012 For many years, Microsoft top brass entertained Silicon Valley by predicting when it would release an important application and never getting the date right. Many other ISVs did the same thing, but Micros...
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ebaY Replaces "Community Values" with "What We Believe"
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As has been documented before, the "Community Values" quietly and mysteriously vanished from ebaY. Very recently I've seen a few posts hither and yon about them being absent as well. Now the link has finally been replaced at the bottom of the forum pages with a link to "What We Believ...
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Bid on Burnt Toast With Image of Mitt Romney and Satan Shaking Hands
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 This has "wreck me" written all over it! We hear that Satan is quite fond of LoL-bidding! mu-ahahaha. Therefore, it naturally follows that Romney is too. lmao Uploaded with ImageShack.us Read more about this on Gawker. PS: Don't be a Whitman. Make sure to vote in the upcomin...
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PayPal Special Powers
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Dat's awhat I'ma tawkin abowt! Al F'n CaponePal! New paypal F'n Spokesman! Dammit! Bwhahaha! I call on anyone who sees this to spoof paypal's front page with bitter criticism and post it to as many places as possible. Target areas include Paypal & ebay facebook walls, paypal forum, PP board at e...
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Yahoo and Twitter Get New Communications Heads From PayPal and Google
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Yahoo and Twitter Get New Communications Heads From PayPal and Google April 4, 2012 Big moves in the Internet PR biz, as Yahoo grabs Amanda Pires from eBay's PayPal unit and Twitter snatches Google communications exec Gabriel Stricker. Pires, who is currently senior director of communications an...
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eBay Honored for Ethical Practices
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PayPal Seeks Permit to Operate in Russia
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PayPal Seeks Permit to Operate in Russia, RBC Daily Reports By Yuliya Fedorinova - Thu Apr 12 06:02:02 GMT 2012 EBay Inc. (EBAY)s PayPal (PYPL) applied to Russias central bank for a permit to set up a local unit, for electronic cash transactions in Russia, RBC Daily reported today, citing people it di...
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Google Vs Oracle: Busted for Astroturfing
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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...
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Paypal President David Marcus Responds to Burned Client
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This looks like some epic slithering and squirming, which didn't work the way they hoped for.Paypal President David Marcus Responds to Burned Client Theres a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now, Marcus said. If we suck at something, we now face it, and we do something about it. Pa...
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Won't you please help save the Ho's?
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ebaY Gets a New Logo?
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Oh my! What can we say? Here's my humble critique:ebaY Gets a New Logo? You already know it's going to be snarky. But there may be snarky discussion of this elesewhere, far and wide. I would say try ecommercebytes blog and tamebay. It looks like ebaY is already on a rampage deleting and censoring thei...
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eBay Reminds Holiday Shoppers That Ponies Are Dangerous Animals and Terrible Pets
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Hilarious! Looks like even ebay admits they blow magic pixiedust ponies! Click through for sarcasm!eBay Reminds Holiday Shoppers That Ponies Are Dangerous Animals and Terrible PetsBy Bob Marshall on November 8, 2012 3:44 PM
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What Could eBay Do to Better Protect Sellers?
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This should probably be illustrated with the Charlie Brown Lucy and football comic strip. Somehow ebayers fall for this stuff every single time. zzzzzzzzzzzzz What Could eBay Do to Better Protect Sellers? By: Ina Steiner One bad buyer can cost a seller money and ruin his or her reputation, so what i...
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eBay to Stop Advertising Inside Mobile Apps: "It's Not Worth It."
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Beyond all doubt, one of the funniest ebay personnel quotes ever! EBay is ecstatic about mobile, just not about mobile advertising.Devin Wenig, eBay's president of global marketplaces, said in an interview that next year the company will stop running mobile ads inside of its applications. &quo...
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Company of the Year Runner-Up: eBay
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bwhahahahahaaaa! The comedy stylings of sleazebay's PR dept. zomfg -can't stop laughing! Company of the Year Runner-Up: eBay This was the year when discussions about eBay (EBAY) stopped veering toward selling junk from grandma's attic or bidding on a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. ... ....
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ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited
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It's long...ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited -- Edited by budnonymous on Sunday 30th of December 2012 06:21:30 PM
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No regulation? No problem
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ebaY’s New Seller Assistant PR Device - Update
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I made this blog post a while back when sleazebay was supposedly testing their own branded pick-up & consignment shops. It was very obvious that the programme/event was staged for PR purposes, as it was completely impromptu, only supposed to last one month, in only two cities, San Jose being one...
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After two years, eBay gains approval to open PayPal for business in Russia. Or not.
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After two years, eBay gains approval to open PayPal for business in Russia. Or not. E-commerce juggernaut eBay perhaps gained approval from the Central Bank of Russia to maybe open a domestic PayPal business and to possibly operate as a non-credit banking institution in the country. We're not real...
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Customers Can Now Use PayPal at BestMassage.com
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Customers Can Now Use PayPal at BestMassage.com bwhahahahaha! Preypal keepin' it classy! We hear that paypal is also trying to become the preferred payment for the truck stop weinie-wash and inner city ho-stroll industries too. And in case you haven't seen them yet, ebay has ads for all your lo...
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eBay Forces eChecks Payments, Buyers Beyond Irked
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Tue Apr 9 2013 22:44:42 eBay Forces eChecks Payments, Buyers Beyond Irked By: Ina Steiner comedy highlight: ...I asked PayPal about the e-check issue on March 29, they have yet to provide an answer,...
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Closing Paypal Accounts is Beginning to be Very Popular at ebaY Forums
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This is quite telling. Never before have I seen this. Three current threads on the paypal forum where folks are stopping by to let others know they closed their accounts and why.Closed accounts with Paypal and eBay I closed my paypal account today I Closed My PayPal Account Today Members exiting t...
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How eBay CEO John Donahoe Keeps Founders From Leaving After Acquisitions
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How eBay CEO John Donahoe Keeps Founders From Leaving After Acquisitions At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY, eBay's CEO John Donahoe talked to Bloomberg's chief content editor Norm Pearlstine about how the company screens its acquisitions and how he keeps founders from leaving after the acquisitio...
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PayPal Shoots For Stars With PayPal Galactic Program
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PayPal Shoots For Stars With PayPal Galactic Program EBay's PayPal division recently announced it has been working with the Space Tourism Society, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the SETI Institute to develop a payment program for recreational space travelers, The Wall S...
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To Beat the Chaos, Take a Thinking Day
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You can always tell the next ebaY financial reports are coming out soon, the sci-fi, unicorn poop and fairy dust articles get piled higher and deeper, no matter how shallow they truly are.To Beat the Chaos, Take a Thinking Day
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PayPal Email Tells Man He’s A Quadrillionaire?
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hmmm, couple odd things. First, it looks like a negative balance may be actually indicated in the published screencap. See what you think. Second the supposed victim is a PR exec, and this lamo-rama story is burning up the web like you wouldn't believe.PayPal Email Tells Man He's A Quadrillionaire...
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"Healthy Tension" Emerging Inside PayPal as It Looks to Reverse Poor Customer-Service Reputation
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"Healthy Tension" Emerging Inside PayPal as It Looks to Reverse Poor Customer-Service Reputation August 29, 2013 PayPal says it's finally serious about addressing some of its biggest customer-service issues, which its president admits the eBay unit has at times "become known...
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From the if at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again department: Devin Wenig. LoL Video - Alibaba's Taobao Dominates China's eCommerce Market, but eBay Won't Give Up - WSJ.com Next up... Published on Nov 19, 2013 The mystery of the ob...
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eBay kills Austin incentives deal, but says expansion plans still in place
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eBay kills Austin incentives deal, but says expansion plans still in place ^ The funny part about this one... it started out as 1000 jobs, next it was only 400... then kinda fizzled to what it is now. Looked just like a re-published thing from 2010 or so... Do you really believe that ebay would nix tha...
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eBay's Latest Search Technologies Deliver More Targeted Results Going over the ebay Cassini search architect Hugh Williams departure from ebay, and posts I had linked to there, I noticed the very first mention of the term Cassini, for whatever reason, seems to have vanished from the interwebz. A...
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Man stole brains from dead mental patients, sold them on eBay
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This one is getting an awful lot of attention. So much it's easier to look on twitter for the hundreds of links if you have seen it by now. https://twitter.com/search?q=brains eBay&f=realtime It doesn't get much more funny than this. Doesn't do much to help good ol' ebarf! There will be assort...
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