eBay: Please Help Us Help You

Once again the year is drawing to a close and eBay has pulled out the stops, begging for buyers and sellers to pad eBay's numbers before the end of the quarter. If you're a seller, they're offering you three days (December 27-29th) with free listings. Sellers can get 50,000 free listings, after that they are regular price. And buyers, they get double eBay bucks for purchases made on December 29th only. Of course there are the usual exclusions to both specials, so you have to read the fine print. So everyone get over to eBay today and help them out. They're starving and their offering the masses crumbs for a day in hopes that in return the eBay community will provide steak for the entire next quarter for the executives.

#1 Cause of Viruses & Trojans on Home PC's? ...eBay!

John Donahoe describing how
eBaysellers equate to the Jews in Schindler'sList....
Disruptive Innovation.

Hey eBay exec-tards, listen up....here's another free tid-bit of Firemeg info offered to you free of charge. Your disruptively innovative scheme of allowing only sellers with 10+ DSR's to list 10+ items per month....yeah, that has some major glitches. You might wanna look into that.

I get it, cool idea. Verify users, things individual sellers and former sellers (like me) were saying back in 2006, you know, verify that a seller is an actual seller and not a bot or a scammer from Romania, that sort of thing. Problem is though, that your crappy system seems to not be working. We received an email with links that serve as proof that sellers with less than 10 DSR and no verification whatsoever, have been able to list in excess of the 10 item limit imposed by eBay Inc. We have no reason to believe that the seller in question is a scammer, but they surely could have been.

So I'm wondering, what really does it take for a company that has a billion $+ in profit each year to pay a few engineers to actually write code that functions correctly? You could seemingly get better results from Indians posting will-do ads on Fiverr than you do from you own engineers.

BTW - love the video linked to in the caption above. John Donahoe at least gets the metaphors presented in the eBay attack videos and can describe them in detail....give him a few more stock options.