eBay vs. Main Street: Who is eBay fighting for?

Published on May 9, 2013

eBay says they’re going to bat for small businesses, but are who are they really fighting for?

 

A New Era in ebaY Comedy! Seller Protection Forum Opens!

 

Live chat used in ebaY phishing attack

 

ebaY Getting Frantic with Features: ‘More Like This’ and Search Follies

Maybe frenetic is a better term? Ebay is hard at it again, making fairly significant site changes, apparently live in realtime from what I’ve seen.  This is truly a[nother] case of ad ridere, or is that ridere ad?

Listings Changes

The first couple changes are this tab over the image which says n person is [or 'are', where n= more than 1] viewing this item per hour.”

(thumbs open for larger view in new tab or window)

There has also been slight variations of the verbiage reported, as noted on the ecommercebytes blog regarding this. I’ve seen at least a couple, among them was a tab which faded out, another which didn’t, and the “X” close button didn’t function.

The other thing is this “More Like This” tab, which stays fixed in place on the side of your browser. As you can see there isn’t any close button for that. These types of things…

 

Devo – Still Devolving

Old rock stars never die, they just keep devolving. (like everything else)

These guys rule.

De-evolution then:

 

Marketplace Fairness Coalition Pushes Back on ebaY

Got a chuckle out of this:

The Marketplace Fairness Coalition, a group of businesses from around the country, said that eBay was armed with “inaccurate comments” as it fought the bill.

 

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room – Full Movie

I believe readers here may like to watch this.

 

If you don’t have time to watch it all at once, you can search youtube for smaller segments or use some downloading extension or what have you. Lots of people like DownThemAll for Firefox.

Can you spot any comparisons/similarities  between Enron and any certain or sundry present day corporations?