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I haven't been using this blog due to the ads. For whatever reason, this blog hosting outfit's checkout system won't take a credit card payment from the USA. So I guess they lose.

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Recommended Primers:
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE eBay REICH
Essay on eBay
by Richard Bilderberg.
Contributors:
Randy Bansa
John Coleman
Cam Harvey
Princeton, USA,
May 2008 

THE END of eBay (2009)
Written by Richard Bilderberg
Contributors:
Randy Bansa
John Coleman
Cam Harvey
Princeton,
March 2009

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Clearly, a great many comparisons or parallels can be made between ebaY and various oppressive regimes and/or political philosophies. This is yet one more, but perhaps the most telling.

Documents released in 1998 revealed Operation Foxley, a plan to assassinate Adolph Hitler by the British SOE. Allied planners believed that Hitler's blundering, overreaching micro-managing control would bring about Germany's downfall quicker and with less risks. They believed the possibility existed that if assassinated, Hitler would be replaced with a more competent leader.

Thus the plan (obviously) was never carried out.

[ebay] ... is sinking into irrelevance because of poor management execution...

...And PayPal isn't very well run, often angers customers, and has an ugly product...

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is laughing.

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Using the Chicken to Measure IT

I see ebaY has again decided to have a fee hike disguised as a fee reduction. Once again accompanied by the usual cacophony of bogus PR releases and one-sided, unresearched, un-fact-checked financial analyst reports. (IOW, fraud. SEC fraud IMO.)

In case you were on another planet or under a rock you know that ebay is going to try to charge final value fees upon shipping charges. In turn, they want the sellers to hike their prices, then, in turn, include the deceptive term "free shipping" to each such listing. This policy may not even be legal, as anyone with enough sense to peruse the FTC website can see.

 I feel that somewhere behind the scenes, people are hoping no one will make a real legal effort into fighting the new policy, or even researching the legality. They are in uncharted territory. Fortunately for ebaY, the members are notorious for being sheepish.

The situation, not surprisingly has prompted calls for Boycott.
Although I see no strong cohesion, the level and tone of the complaints/grievances looks pretty serious to me.

I've been advocating Boycott of ebaY and Paypal for a long time. By Boycott, I mean to completely close your accounts and join into persuading others to do the same. I have a youtube channel dedicated to that cause BTW. There are lots of truly revealing things there about our ugly friends at sleazebay.

In my opinion, a Boycott or whatever protests that may be mounted can be successful. ebaY does not like the noise.  Last we heard they are paying 7 figures per year to keep it quelled. That's in addition to whatever 'black budget"  operations ( or "pink ops" - LOL) they may have, as well as the amounts they spend on  lobbying to keep their unlawful policies from being investigated/regulated by our bought and paid for Government.

Their public image has taken a beating in the last few years.

It's been helped along by things like Meg Whitman's scandalous failed California Governor's campaign, and other things, like paypal freezing accounts of journalists,  charity/non-profit orgs, Wikileaks etc. The list really does go on and on...

Then there is the ever increasing world of fraud, fake IDs, ID theft etc. It has increased quite dramatically as of late.

Ebay cannot withstand another negative public relations barrage like what occurred back in 2008 after John Donahoe's smug attitude, his infamous noise comment the gutting of the reciprocal feedback system and fee hikes in guise of reductions.

Noise as an unfair/illegal business policy reversal leverage and/or Boycott device

Study up on these principles and apply them to your boycott and protest.

Sound Pressure Level
Threshold of Pain
Inverse Square Law
Resonant Frequency

Boycotts, protests, etc will never succeed until everyone makes orchestrated noise.
Ebay knows this and that's why they have paid shills, trolls and other social engineering tactics at play constantly. They have done, and will do whatever they can to confound any organized Boycott protest, or anti-ebaY/PayPal noise movement.

The affected users have a vast numerical superiority. If they can just learn to exploit their strengths with focused, purpose driven tactics; act in concert, they most certainly will prevail.

In a way, this ebaY situation is a little like part of a much larger war that is starting to brew in this country. It's time for us all to stand up against all these corporate thugs trying to own us and our Gov't.

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The end of another year.
Since I hate typing and I have things to do between now and 2011, I'll keep this short and to the point.

The process of de-evolution continued throughout 2010.
No sign that it will ever end.

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Wow! Looking around the interwebs I see there is still a good amount of blood in the water surrounding the bobbing, snarkbitten corpse of Meg's bid for California Governor.

 I'm not even sure there is a superlative strong enough to aptly describe what we are and have seen, but I get the feeling this event will change our popular progressive colloquial slanguage.

Among the things being said:

Meg Whitman spent $47 per vote she received in Tuesdays election. Jerry Brown spent only $6 per vote.

Meg Whitman wasted $160,000,000 to run for CA Governor. That's equivalent to 3,200 $50,000/year jobs.

Meg Whitman also Lost To Marijuana

Meg Whitman's personal spending on her campaign: $163 mil. Natl Endowment for the Arts 2010 budget: $161.4 mil.

...and the list goes on and on...  It could be a lot longer but it's real early in the morning  and I need time to shave, shower, and whitman.

I'll leave you with this quick little epilogue/alternate ending to Meg Whitman: Nannygate, the Final Solution

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from abc news

This is too funny. Despite the polls, assorted bad news and sleazy revelations, not to mention the knockout ads by her opponent which show her as unoriginal, repetitive, and ignorant of history, Meggy still claims she is going to win.

But the funniest part is that around 2 minutes in she repeats the same lame "insanity is doing the same thing...' again!

Hilarious! This lady is not playing with a full deck IMO. I'll go one further. If she didn't have those filthy billion$ she would be locked up in prison or a rubber room somewhere.

By this time, I suppose everyone has forgotten completely about the fact she didn't even bother voting for 28 years, then gave the most revealing   [non]answer, an insurmountable obstacle to legitimate candidacy, IMO.

I'm also surprised that her conduct and record for various blunders at ebaY is hardly even being discussed or highlighted too much. There are just too many other defects which greatly outweigh her failures at ebaY I suppose.

Here's a little bonus, from the local abc channel abc7.com. Watch here at around 45 seconds to 1 minute, as Meg, in an interview earlier the same day, states there are polls which show her ahead.

Where are those?  Has anyone seen even one? Comment below if so.

lmao!!!

I can hardly wait to see what the outcome will be.

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