This guy is my hero

284dan · Senior Member

This guy is my hero

budnonymous · Top Poster

LOL. I thought for sure you were going to say Ming the Merciless.

Yeah requiring proper registration right up front at the gate makes too much sense. But instead of doing that, or announcing that now everyone will need to be verified or registered whatever, they will just pi$$ off people randomly and make the,m fax this & that in after the fact, meanwhile, 8 year olds with Mom's expired credit card can still join. Hackers too. Join and list 20K items in 24 hrs. LOL (same with Paypal for the most part. They should do the credit check FIRST, not later when folks have $$$ in their accounts and obligations to buyers/ creditors.)

The other thing, ebay wants to make all these blatantly false claims about non-censorship. Yet they are scared to DEATH that someone like the emovie poster Bruce or R. Smythe might give a ray of hope to folks and shut them down right quick!
(Remember that little episode a couple years back?)

They are sending their high-ranking corporate officers out now to mess with people.
Did you see that crap at auctionbytes recently?
That is coming back to bite them on their fat flabby weak worthless a$$e$ . Just wait & watch!

mu-ahahahahhaha.

Anyway, Doc got all that archived. Maybe not the entire thread but lots of it.

Go check this out. This thread is still making sleazebay nervous!

eBay Continues To Lie About Forum Censorship!
http://www.suspendedfromebay.com/?p=83#comments

284dan · Senior Member

I read a story today (maybe it was post of eBay) that this new idiot running eBay (Donohue?) is trying to destroy eBay for his own financial gain. Something about chasing the sellers to other auction sites while he buys shares in those sites.

I will never understand why someone like this, large power sellers with a niche, continue to sell one eBay instead of running their own website.

Anyways, as always eBay doesn't give a crap about the sellers. They shrug their shoulders over this guy, but hide the information from their investors. They only care about the investors. Using dirty sneaky, cheating tactics to continue to lie and cheat the investors. At one time I owned 500+ shares of eBay stock. Then I started reading the forums there and saw what kind of ****ty company this really is. I dumped the stock.

Meg was bad but this new guy shouldn't even be a crew leader at McDonald's, let alone CEO of a billion dollar company.

budnonymous · Top Poster

Sounds like you have missed alot.
Yes, this Donahoe person changed feedback, so that a seller is no longer allowed to leave a neg for a buyer.

Then PayPal has started a 21 day hold on funds for select transactions. Therefore, if you sell something on ebay, you are in effect (& reality) shipping before you get paid, with absolutely no guarantee you will EVER see your $$$ or your item again.
If the buyer neglects to leave feedback, (or leave a nuetral or neg) they either hold or keep your money.
I know of not one single business or even casual one in a while seller who will enjoy that. No way can anyone really even make a business plan with that sort of uncertainty. Any bigger sellers better get a merchant account. PayPal will freeze entire accounts over disputed amounts. This will only make that happen more often.
The terms or conditions by which PP decides whether funds will be held or not are very vague to say the least.

Donahoe called ebay sellers 'noise' and he called ebay a 'flea market' or said it looked like one.

His vision for ebay is to enhance it to be more like a retail experience I think is the some of the latest PR spin-buzz. Like Wal-Mart, where he came from.

Those are only a few of the many changes, with ebvn more to come. Basically it looks like they want small sellers all gone, or to be sooo subservient they will stand for anything that sleazebay rams&slams into their assorted orifices.

I think this video sums it all up quite well in just one minute 22 seconds.
It's hilarious.

ebay Wrecking Ball

284dan · Senior Member

Paypal will keep the sellers $$ until the buyer leaves feedback? That is the dumbest thing ebay has ever done. I sold on ebay for years and less than 20% of buyers leave feedback.

Oh wait, maybe that is what ebay is counting on.

budnonymous · Top Poster

Sheesh, what I mentioned already is just the tip of the iceberg of the changes.
they also started that 5 star DSR rating thing which has been full of glitches. (that has been in effect for a while now, since before the other changes) But they promised a discount for those sellers with a higher DSR rating in the last 30 days.

Well,,, not only did they lie and not give the discount, but they counted it as balance due and added that amount which was supposed to be as discount onto the invoice-for some sellers at least. (and called it a glitch. LOL)

'They also waffled about which 30 day window/period would be counted.

It has already been PROVEN that the 'discounts' are clearly unatainable BTW, and that even was before the glitches which disallowed folks to leave any rating higher than a certain level, like 3 or 4 stars out of 5.

But hey, if you can rip a few thousand off for a few bucks each as part of your business plan, you are 'online pioneers', leaders in the field etc.

they also made the 'hidden bidder' or blindfolded bidder' SMI thing universal, (used to be only items over 200 bucks) making sure the RAMPANT shill bidding & FRAUD go undetected, allthewhile getting their dirty profits.

Also, that has not stopped or slowed the fake SCO's from being sent, which was their argument for implenting it all along.

There is more.... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more....
Paypal data leaks from employee theft reported, more tricky scripts used by hackers, exploiting the xxs flaw they refuse to correct....

With all the shady stuff ebay has been up to, I have a feeling it won't be long until we see something happen.

Something funny.

-- Edited by budnonymous at 15:31, 2008-04-09