Looks like ebaY just became even less safe, efficient and trustworthy.

Live help for ATOs

Clearly there is something wrong with this corporation. How can they dream of this? View a screencapture of the entire jawdropping thread here.

Let me restate that the long uncorrected ID stealing critical XSS safety flaw is still present and claiming victims on ebaY. This new ebay procedure ensures that many, many more victims will be claimed. More lives ruined!

Do you trust this irresponsible,  fly-by-night outfit?

Now, onto another HQ remake of a Cappnonymous classic consumer awareness video from around 2 years ago. As you can see, the situation is worse today than it was when the video was made. Also note that the victim chimed in at the video on youtube to relate his unpleasant experience with ebaY, with regards to having been hacked!

There are quite a few such comments at my Youtube videos and also here at my blog.

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/41016

  First off, when we shot this film (above) Ms Whitman was extremely difficult to work with. For such a small part, she repeatedly made lewd, untoward requests of poor ol' Cappnonymous. Not quite as disgusting as what Uncle Griff was however. lmao.

  Seriously, the ebaY Vs Craigslist trial is proving to be very interesting. It seems that Meg has been pegged as an evil monster and Craigslist painted as naive.   Which is the lesser of 2 evils?

   ebaY's predatory, bloodsucking, backstabbing nature has been exposed, along with more glimples of ebaY's warped, arrogant corporate culture and Megalomaniacal mindset revealed.

  How will this affect Ms Whitman's run for Governor of California?

One thing I am pretty sure of, and that is that all the fraud that went unrepaired/unresolved, ignored, covered up etc during her tenure are not going to help. I would be willing to bet that if she should get all the way into the final race, we will be seeing more where that came from.  Lots and lols more.

Ms Whitman is every bit as much responsible for ebaY's present state of affairs as Mr Donahoe, perhaps even moreso.  (imho)

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/40967

Video remake of one of my personal favorites from the Cappnonymous channel, in widescreen HQ from the original files.

I wonder when the next Mega-Hack Attack will happen? (and/or where?)

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/40759

Gee who would believe?
Looks like neither side is going to come out clean. But we are starting to see things about extortion and purposefully told lies, like "feign surprise"
roflmao!

I'm not sure which one (or more) of the vaunted sleazebay Five Core Values those sorts of things fall under.

It should be interesting to see how this turns out. Hard telling how long it might take for the judge to reach a decision though, as we saw with the tiffany trial way back, it could take a surprisingly long time.

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/40135

AuctionBytes on Location at eBay v Craigslist Trial

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/39949

So ebaY again, fails, spins big yarn and gets caught. And again no one is taking the time to look beyond their PR dept statements into the most rudimentary fact checking and or verifications.

They were called to the carpet at just one place I saw, auctionbytes blog, where this was asked:

"And mainstream media? Shame on you."

I'm not sure why we all keep making any mentions of emotion such as shame with regards to a heartless entity like ebay? This is all about greed, lies, corporate face and money. They have no shame, no pride, no hope.

I don't have the time or the expertise, but I would love to see someone tack down and find out how many major media outlets parent corporations are also ebay shareholders or affilliated/associated with ebay's named PR firm.

 Now for the one that almost got away... This cannot be found by searching news in any way I have tried. How convenient.

Wherein we find this telling paragraph among so many others;

[...]EBay’s search engine was down for most of the day after a worker made a change to the system, causing it to crash, said John Pluhowski, a spokesman for the San Jose, California-based company. The technical issue “resulted from a surge in live listings” ahead of the holiday season, EBay said.[...]

Here is a video screencapture of that page/article

There was no surge. The charts are clear about that.  ebaY is a dyed in the wool liar.

 I wonder if they lied about anything else?

Interesting visual characteristic on the daily chart for 11-21-2009 though. It does seem as if there is something familiar about that.

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/39655

  Hilarious post from the ebay community forums, "Trust & Safety" board.
Clearly we see that ebay is NOT interested in taking any reports or offering anything resembling customer service, let alone providing any "Trust and/or Safety".

  It is no secret that ebaY has laid-off many workers, in particular in the Trust & Safety area. There have also been many reports of the complaint forms not working, sending a blank message devoid of any text.

  So a new "glitch" (or just plain incompetence/indifference) pops up to achieve the same results, which are more-less ebaY burying IT's head in the sand. Again. Still.

 

  Ebay is consuming it's self piecemeal. Feasting on It's own flesh. Don't bother reporting anything. You will only be wasting your time. They are NOT interested in securing their site or making it safer.

  They are only interested in ignoring the fraud, concealing evidence of wrongdoing and complacency, silencing critics, sending concerned users in an endless circular exercise in futility and thereby deriving profit from criminal activities of all sorts.

  Simply avoid the site.  

  Remember, Court says ebay is a Criminal Enterprise. Seriously.

  Rather than using this unsafe and uncaring, shady, criminal site to buy and/or sell your widgets and whatzits, simply hit your back button and find yourself another place.

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/39112