eBay aims for PC security with Garage

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ebaY's forgotten failures and PR scams

budnonymous · Top Poster

Golly gee whiz! Did it happen again?

Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Whatever happened to Narciso Rodriguez on eBay?

Early in 2010 eBay scored a nationally known designer in their quest to become the go-to site for high end fashion.

Narciso Rodriguez designed a collection of ready to wear for eBay. Today his eBay store sits forlorn (def.#2) and empty. Even the About Me page with hyperbolic phrasing...

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budnonymous · Top Poster

YessireeBob! It appears we have another winner in the making!

eBays Group Gift experience for the holidays.

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Just imagine the warm cheery glow on the faces of your friends and family when they get tossed into the bizarro world of ebaY/paypal just in time for the Holidays!

I was only getting a blank white page trying to get there when I first saw it, then I noticed the link they gave on all the forums has 2 slashes at the end of it. Not sure how many times now we've seen that sort of thing from world class ebaY now, but it's a fairly common occurrence.

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The special forum looks very dead.

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Yet another fail in the making is the ridiculous little extra Holiday countdown images in the upper left, & red/green banner/button scheme, which are conspicuously absent from the Group Gifts page.

I also thought I read somewhere that they plan on using 'social networking' as their advertising thrust this year.

rotflmao!!!

-- Edited by budnonymous on Friday 19th of November 2010 10:16:25 AM

budnonymous · Top Poster

More failure from the past. So lame to begin with it was completely forgotten even before it failed.

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I think my favorite must be the one that's playing right now, live on ebaY.

EbaY Express, Beta V20111, Epic Failure - The Sequel. ..

budnonymous · Top Poster

I was wondering why this article about an event from way back when resurfaced.

Published: Jun 26, 2011

Scarlett Johansson Used Tissue
by Jack Ryan

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I happened to go back and look at the feedback profile for tonightshowwithjayleno.

Gee... I wonder why he never got any feedback for that snotty tissue?

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Neither did he leave any. For the alleged sum of over $5,000, you would think he would have at least thanked the booger buyer, eh?

Why no interview with the winner? Not even a photo of them enjoying thier prize.

budnonymous · Top Poster

Does anyone remember the highly touted (and ridiculed) '5 core values' or ebaY "Community Values"?

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They appear to have been gone now since sometime in 2009, according to internet archives. Arguably, they may had been gone long before then.

The page:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/newtoebay/community_overview.html

now redirects to http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/sharing.html

"Sharing with eBay members"

where there is nary a peep of the 5 core communty values

There is something about that which seems rather epic, even now, so long after the fact.

This is not your Mother's ebaY. Now it's just a mother*