For those of you whom do  not know are are not aware of a poster frequently seen at AuctionBytes blog, who is colorful and well spoken.
In a very recent blog post there, he has asked for some information to be reposted.

This is for you Mr. Ming;

...by: Ming the Merciless...

Sun Jul 26 15:28:30 2009
1. Any offer/deal/practice offered to some sellers but to others violates FTC regulations.

2. Tampering with feedback for the purpose of deceiving buyers or potential buyers is fraud. Fraud is a crime.

3. Google isn't going to start any competitive auction website until their sweetheart deal with ebafia that has obvious non compete features expires if it ever does.

4. Do you know another way to sniff out an ebay plant? None of them can spell the word whining.

5. Do you know how to sniff out a Bonanzle plant? They never discuss results.

6. PayPal keeping a seller's money and either confiscating the seller's property or allowing the customer to keep the item is patently ILLEGAL.

Readers will recall when ebay announced the same provision, they had to reverse it in less than a week. The reason they rescinded it was that this practice is THEFT, and THEFT is a crime. Sellers are entitled to due process.

Sellers should flood PayPal beginning Monday, July 26, with calls. If you have a website, tell them that unless this ILLEGAL policy isn't reversed within one week, you will remove PayPal as a payment option from your website.

More later!


Sun Jul 26 16:38:35 2009
AS PROMISED:

1.  US Department of Justice (DoJ)
   Anti Trust Division
   950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
   Washington, DC 20530
   E-mail: antitrust.atr@usdoj.gov

   How to submit a complaint:

    http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm


2. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  Consumer Response Center
  600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20580

  Mission: The Federal Trade Commission is the nation's consumer protection agency. The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection works For The Consumer to prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace.

The Bureau:

--Enhances consumer confidence by enforcing federal laws that protect consumers

--Empowers consumers with free information to help them exercise their rights and spot and avoid fraud and deception

--Wants to hear from consumers who want to get information or file a complaint about fraud or identity theft

To report a company for a pattern and practice of suspected fraud:

1-877-382-4357

CAUTION: The FTC doe NOT resolve individual consumer complaints. Please confine your remarks whether verbal or written to ebay/PayPal policies you believe are illegal.

Online fraud complaint form:

    https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

3. Securities and Exchange Commission
  SEC Complaint Center
  100 F Street NE
  Washington, D.C. 20549-0213

   http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce.shtml

Above link includes information about insider trading and sending tips and complaints.

  1. Insider trading:
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/insider.htm
  2. Tips and Complaints:
http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml

  Online complaint forms:
 http://www.sec.gov/complaint/selectconduct.shtml

  Hypthetically, if I were filing an SEC complaint, I'd strongly consider:

  --False or misleading statements about a company (including false or misleading SEC reports or financial statements)

5. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
  Chairman
  House Energy and Commerce Committee
  2204 Rayburn
  House Office Building
  Washington, D.C. 20515
  Telephone (202) 225-3976
  Fax (202) 225-4099

  LOS ANGELES OFFICE
  8436 West Third Street, Ste 600
  Los Angeles, CA 90048
  Telephone 1 (310) 652-3095
  Telephone 2 (818) 878-7400
  Telephone 3 (323) 651-1040
  Fax (323) 655-0502

  http://waxman.house.gov/

6. Attorney General’s Office
  California Department of Justice
  Attn: Consumer Protection Division
  P.O. Box 944255
  Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
  (916) 322-3360

http://ag.ca.gov/contact/complaint_form.php?cmplt=CLR

7. Attorney General's Office
  2115 State Capitol
  Lincoln, NE 68509

  Consumer Protection Division: 800) 727-6432

  Online complaint form:

http://www.ago.ne.gov/consumer/emailform/consumer_complaint.htm

Specific consumer complaints to the Attorney Generals against ebay/PayPal should be directed to the California and Nebraska Attorney general's Office Divison of Consumer complaints. Complaints could include PayPal holds on seller funds, ebay billing issues, PayPal confiscation of seller property, etc. PayPal complaints should be directed to both attorney generals' office, and ebay complaints shoul.d be sent to California.

General comments:

-- Emails and phone calls are fine, but SNAIL MAIL has more impact. PLEASE send all complaints with regular USPS mail.

-- When filing and mailing WRITTEN complaints, spring for an extra envelope and stamp and send a copy to the San Jose Better Bureau. Little will come of it, BUT ebay MUST file a written response.

-- Rep. Waxman has the ability to hold public hearings on the conduct of a business or industry. He has the power to subpoena executives past and present, past and present rank and file employees, and records. Consider the possibilities :-)

8. San Jose Better Business Bureau
  1112 S. Bascom Ave.
  San Jose, CA 95128
  Phone: (408) 278-7400

9. Ebay operates in all 50 states. Therefore sending copies of complaints or filing directly with your state's attorney general's office will make a difference if they receive enough complaints. Your can find your attorney general and consumer protection
information by using a search engine using these keywords (Your state) Attorney General Consumer Protection.

Please post this information on every relevant website and blog -- especially TV news, newspaper, financial, and business media blogs and websites. This information should be posted in hundreds of location on a daily basis for maximum and persistent exposure.

Remember that certain corporations hire people to disrupt blogs and that includes spamming them to bury unwelcome messages.

DEATH to ebay corp. in 2009."

I urge and advise for everyone reading this to repost these links also, along with any more you can think of. Use any and all webspaces possible, Myspace, Youtube, twitter, the works. Please join in on the Snail Mail Letter writing effort.

Now my time is limited as this is early in the morning.
But I did happen across this other blog post which highlights some of the issues I speak of in the video I also composed last night in support of Ming and the ebay situation:

eBay’s Frail Recovery Shows How Far It’s Fallen

I want everyone to read the comments area there.
Do you detect the sleazy signature of paid shills, trolls, indeed... stalkers?

This is no joke. This type of misconduct shall stop, everywhere, or I feel that ebay will be having a very very bad day.

However, on the good side, ebay cannot see they are falling victim to their very own misguided PR / propaganda techniques. Each and every time this sort of misconduct and sleazery is observed, it only serves to reinforce the notion that ebay is a horrible, disreputable and warped company, and people shudder to think what sort of miscreant they are associating themselves, enabling, condoning and supporting when they conduct biz upon the ebay site
(commonly known as "sleazebay" )


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