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Ebay is taking the right of having private feedbacks away from sellers as of 10/26. You will not be able to list an item to sell if your feedbacks are private. eBay has not bothered to notifiy sellers of this. The info here: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200610.shtml#2006-10-02120653
Also many people are complaining to ebay at: http://pages.ebay.com/help/newtoebay/suggest.html
Anomo 19:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Couple of comments about the "Other controversies" section:
-- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 20:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I've had someone Auction Snipe me twice! >:( Does this happen to anyone else? -Timmyfan
In the "Other Controversies" section it states that "eBay discourages sellers from using independent money-wiring companies such as Western Union and MoneyGram". I assume that this was added as people feel that this discourages competition for eBay's payment service, PayPal. If that is the case would this still be the case if that is not the reason it is discouraged? Both WU and MoneyGram discourage the use of their services on eBay as well: http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/mrkt_safety/instantcashtransfer.html#western If this is not the reason that this is considered controversial could someone clarify this? Kaid 16:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Moved to discussion down the page. Kaid ( talk) 06:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Link on WP for script: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Edit Top 70.111.218.254 13:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
A note about the third party providers/auction management software that help automate business on eBay?
Inc: Marketworks Channeladvisor Fruition
to name a few
19/10/2006
Free third party providers can be found on ebay.com under seller tools. The best one I have found is Turbo Lister.
Income being derived from Ebay on an automated basis is more than using third party providers. A discussion of third party providers that provide income on Ebay can be found here
I've tightened up the "unusual items" section, removing those that were only referred to by eBay item numbers (or copies of eBay listings), given that anyone who wants to can post something odd on eBay and then list it here. I've changed the comments so they say that external source for "unusualness" need be provided. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 23:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
For anyone who likes to shop at eBay:
User:Bearly541/Userbox/Ebayaddict
B e arly 541 03:20, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Why did the creator request deletion?
William Ortiz (
talk)
10:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I am new to Wikipedia so please forgive my ignorance.
I have added a new section on eBay Stores.
Does anyone know how I add my cite in the References area? http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 16:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
What are all the References at the bottom of the page then? There are several self prmotional links there like 1, 5, 6, links to Auction Guild, etc.
Did I miss something?http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 17:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! I understand now about References and Wikipedia:External Links. I wanted to link to a page on my site that is directly related to eBay Stores and the design of them (eBay Radio even interviewed us on this).
Thanks again! http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 20:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to confirm that e-Bay didn't acquire MercadoLibre, they just bought 19% of the stock and signed a deal that endend a couple of years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.126.244.172 ( talk) 02:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Under Acquisitions & investments, there needs to be some sort of edit to the statement "ebay aqcuired kruse auctions."
There needs to be grammar check, and information on when the aquisition occured. -( Theemojesus 20:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC))
Ebay did not acquire Mercadolibre.com, just a small percentage of it. This should be corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.216.234.165 ( talk) 17:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
MercadoLibre.com was not aquired totally, only a 19% of the stock. Look for the mercadolibre article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.3.108.21 ( talk) 23:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
During I think it was about 2003, a new MMORPG, Eve-Online, started.
I spent about six months playing, during which time I learned how to make a lot of in-game currency, which I was then selling on ebay.
A small number of other people were also engaged in this activity, and we got an idea of who was who through the ebay listings.
We found that fraudenlent buyers were a *major* problem. Buyers would pay with stolen credit cards and it would only be later that the payment would be recognized as fraudent. With Paypal in particular this was a major problem, since Paypal then billed the seller for the fraudent payment and because Paypal exlude virtual goods from their insurance programme. With other forms of payment (Western Union on-line money transfers, for example) this wasn't a problem because WU would honour the payment once it was made.
As a result, I began to track *all* the sales of ISK (the in-game currency) for a period of about two months.
It turned out to be very easy to spot a fraudent buyer. They would bid over the going rate and they would often bid on many auctions concurrently. This was of course because they weren't spending their own money and because they wanted to get as much ISK as possible before the card was detected as invalid.
There was only *one* case of a more sophisticated fraud, who built up a +5 reputation before going on a fraud spree. He did well, because ebay at that time only showed the current rating, which for him of course was only going down by -1 each time someone gave a negative feedback that he'd defrauded them. (From that episode, I learned to always check the full user history).
What I found was that about *HALF* of all bidders were fraudulent.
I emailed one seller who lost the equivelent of 3000 dollars of in-game currency.
I think this information is quite interesting and I wish/intend to add it to the Ebay page.
Any comments/suggestions?
Toby Douglass 18:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I note an unusual amount of edits by Jpgordon wiki admin and ex ebay employee. I wonder if this is the best person, a self stated former employee & ebay programmer, to be chronically editing and monitoring the page, and by comments, apparently this is a pet project. STeve 65.8.240.227 00:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I threw in one, it would be cool to see other people add other ones that they know of. They run around 5 or 10 a week and have an entire department dedicated to it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jazzmaster j ( talk • contribs) 17:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
Isn't this highly subjective? Only an external link is required? This section seems out of place in Wikipedia and doesn't contribute to the article nor does it even list some of the more peculiar items that have sold on ebay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.124.45.194 ( talk) 03:44, 25 December 2006 (UTC).
Yes, I once saw someone trying to sell a link to a website. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the link was stated in the product description. Even better, there were bids on it. 69.251.157.48 12:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)ARANDOMGENIUS 69.251.157.48 12:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again. Cbrown1023 02:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[MAGBAZA] http://www.magbaza.com/ Adds Trust and Reliability to Buy From China by ebay Headquartered in Hongkong, China, MAGBAZA and its operating subsidiaries provide MAGBAZA services that facilitate and accelerate purchasing from China by assuring secure settlement and providing supplier investigation services and other helpful services. It’s a fast growing team with representative offices and cooperators all over main cities of China. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 221.221.116.199 ( talk)
The logo says "ebay", or maybe ebaY, not eBay. 67.188.172.165 23:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
So is 'egay' but I wouldnt mention it on the wiki page 62.25.106.209 05:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Some users have been frustrated with Ebay's customer service. All problems must be resolved by email, there is no way to speak directly to a person. Email responses are often canned responses. The frustration with Ebay's failure to improve has given rise to a petition calling for customer service improval.
This text has been removed 3 times without a valid explanation. According WP:RS this classes as a primary source. Incidentally, I have no affiliation with the petition website. Although at least one of the reverters works/worked for eBay.
Could you please give your reasons rather than just starting revert war? Pgr94 19:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
EBay does, in fact, have a phone support department, but that service is limited to members of the rank "Gold PowerSeller"
This could be put more accurately. General phone support during business hours is available for "Silver Powersellers" ($3,000 per month). Gold level powersellers may call an "account manager" who is assigned to their account and a number of others, up to hundreds. Top level powersellers and subscribers to Anchor Stores have 24/7 dedicated support. It may be better to express the criticism more generally if at all since none of this really shows the true picture. Should this section even be included without references to litigation, testimony etc? Wphamilton 02:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
And now, even more accurately, eBay offers phone support for all eBay Store subscribers as well as PowerSellers of Silver level and above. (Premium and Anchor stores get 24/7. http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200709041243562.html) Kaid 04:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
The "Items and Sevices" section reads like an advertisement to me. Anyone else get that feeling when they read it? worthawholebean talk contribs 05:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Does the list belong in the article, or should it be kept to prose and an external link to their policies. I'm aware the topic is notable enough to include, though I don't know if a list of prohibited items is good encyclopedic practice. Richard001 00:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I cannot fathom how "misspellings" can be listed as a controversy or a criticism. I also do not think that sniping should be included in this list. The entire section could probably be organized better with some additional information on other problems that ebay has with dealing with fraud. DanielZimmerman 16:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
In the most recent archive it is mentioned that the Fraud section has a lot of what appears to be OR. I tend to agree, especially with the lack of citations in this section. I will be working on a rewrite unless anyone has any objections. DanielZimmerman 14:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
i think under fraud they should do the chinese mp4 player scam.. as ebay is flooded with counterfit music players with hacked memory (1gb made to look like 4gb) and maybe links related to it 82.24.175.199 01:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I sue you 23:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Fraudsters (irrespective of how menial the fraud) are creatures of habit and if they are committing fraud on eBay, they are committing it elsewhere. Several have tried it on me and I have recovered every penny (including postage) - it's actually quite easy, just think like them. Remember there are more ways of skinning a cat! 00.36, 24 July 2007 (ISU) I sue you 23:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Why doesn't this article use the {{lowercase|eBay}} template? 134.250.72.142 21:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Does that mean it's impossible to get such items as Hitler Youth knifes? Or does that just mean pro-nazi books and such? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.174.93.102 ( talk) 05:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC).
Ok I find this somewhat weird. I was on there trying to buy a m43 field cap on ebay. Most of the results (and there were lots of listed items) said that I could not view/purchase the item when I tried to click on them because of "legal restrictions in your home country". I live in New Jersey, in the United States of America, and I have never heard of such a prohibition. Furthermore, I was allowed to click on and get to the details page of some of the hats. Ironicly, this ones were what I would think would be the more controversial ones addorned with Totenkopfe, the Reichsadler, and also ones in the iconic "pea-pattern" Waffen-SS camouflage. I have no idea what this was all about... they aren't even banned in Germany to the best of my knowledge (plain ones, without explicit Nazi symbols that is), seeing as their Gebirgsjäger still wear basically the same hat. Does anyone know the status of this? (And by the way don't want it because I'm a neo-nazi or something... I actually planned to put a hammer and sickle or hammer and compass symbol on it) -- KobaVanDerLubbe ( talk) 16:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Ebay's US phone number 08887493229, is not a "closely guarded secret", even if ebay does not publish it. First of all, it's public information. Second, it can be found doing a simple google search. Hardy secret, I would say.
[3]Toll free General phone support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling 1-866-442-3229. For Trust and Safety related issues (such as feedback removal, non-paying bidder, ended listings or suspensions) call 1-866-442-3229 6am-6pm PT, seven days a week.
I detected a blatant case of shill bidding and reported it to eBay. I cited a dozen or so auctions in which it happened in a completely obvious fashion (e.g. items accidently bought by the shill bidder were later 'resold' by the original seller!!). I received absolutely no reply to my emails to eBay and the fraudulent seller is still on line and still shill bidding!! eBay is a disgrace KarenFischer 12:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes Karen, ebay only cares about the seller. The people who pay for items (the buyer) don't matter. No buyers no ebay. And Jpgordon most be getting well paid for defending them. 81.151.68.233 15:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
[ [4]]Actually Ebay will side with the Buyers every single time, i have been a platinum seller since 2004 and i have lost every dispute, to say the truth i only answer the disputes so Ebay would not say i did not show any interest in helping solve the issue,because i know they just side with the buyers! Why? because Ebay does not have any control over the buyer, but it SURELY does over the seller!! Watches777( Watches777 ( talk) 01:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)).
I added Prostores to this eBay wiki entry because Prostores is owned by eBay as well. i need to improve on my Prostores article I wrote and I'm sure the people that come to this eBay link should help me on that now. The Cleveland Browns are awesome! 14:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
A list of countries that eBay has websites for should be added to the article. Does anyone have any infomration on this? ANNAfoxlover 02:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I always thought the pronounciation of eBay was like in 'bay', 'hey'. The other day I heard someone say it like 'ebuy' or 'ebye'. Which is right?
88.91.213.194 04:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
ive always heard it rhyming with hay. that sounds like an accent.
Maddie was here
05:34, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Feedback abuse:
A practice among some sellers is to hold feedback hostage. Even though the buyer paid promptly, the seller refuses to leave feedback. A further abuse of this is that some sellers deliberately withhold feedback so that if a customer is not satisfied with a purchase, no matter how legitimate their reason is, the seller may then use their feedback for malicious retaliation against the buyer, intentionally damaging their feedback score and reputation, and thus, their buying and selling ability, as buyers and sellers both often rely on the feedback score in deciding whether or not to do business with a particular individual. Abacene
"retaliatory Feedback is strongly discouraged on eBay" "some eBay members choose not to leave feedback" These are word-for-word quotes directly from Ebay, which acknowledges that the problem does exist. Source: Ebay - Direct word-for-word quotes
This is the latest change from Ebay about feedback policies.
The eBay Feedback system was designed to provide a simple, honest, accurate record of member experiences. Focusing on customer service includes doing everything we can to grow customer confidence in our sellers.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Watches777 ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I think the fiscal accounts are not encyclopedic and the section should be removed. Stifle ( talk) 09:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
This used to be in here and is a valuable metric. Somehow it got cut. Could someone please put this back in? I haven't followed the edit discussion here or I'd do it. I've seen eBay estimate 1.3 million primary-income sellers in the US, but I don't know the original source of this data. Thank you.
Well seeing as the customer support is so great and I can't edit this section, can someone tell me the UK number where I can enjoy this service? I want to report someone setting up a fake account at my home address. Considering the hassle I have had trying to inform eBay, I think my addition (previously posted by another user a few days ago) was rather benign. 195.137.127.145 21:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
It is about 2.4 Million earn a living on eBay.
I was suprised to find no mention of Ebay's mobile offering. Perhaps because the full offering is not available in the US. Anyway here is the link:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/mobile/
Mathiastck 17:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Something seems to be wrong with the external links. Two are the same. I don't know why we need the support page.
One is very unclear ( http://pages.ebay.co.uk/mobile/). Why is it there? Is this an ad for Ebay? Perhaps it would be better to mention using ebay with mobiles somewhere in the text above. Plus: why hasn't it got a name?
The last one, most-watched, is OK is guess (though removing it would be OK as well).
HJ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.83.206.204 ( talk) 22:55:58, August 19, 2007 (UTC)
Why is Overstock Auctions listed as one of "eBay's rivals"? With about 1/1000th of the listings (not even including eBay store format listings), and barely even a net profit compared to billions every quarter, Overstock Auctions rivals auctions on some private websites, but hardly eBay. This hype from 2004 Overstock press releases doesn't belong here. Is the idea to list those sites considering themselves competitors of eBay, or realistic competitors? If the former, there's a list of about a dozen which may merit inclusion. Wphamilton 22:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, can someone add Turkey to the Ebay countries list (reference #1)? They have recently opened a Turkish site as well.. I tried to add it but apparently article is locked.. Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.28.232 ( talk) 15:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Someone should fact-check this section please. 1) eBay expansion has failed in China, not merely Taiwan and Japan. 2) Not all states require sales tax from out of state sales. 3) The section also seems to deny or ignore the expansions which are not strictly attempts to penetrate markets in new geographical regions. Those are the expansions which have been powering eBay's recent growth, moreso than opening new countries. Wphamilton 08:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Can some one please inculde the net income or profits of this company as found in all the other companies articles. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikhilhuilgol ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm confused...So how big a share in this Korean auction site does ebay have? Do they entirely own it now?-- Josquius 18:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Rush Limbaugh placed a letter that allegedly "smeared" him on Ebay. It went for $2.1 MILLION. this happened two days before the time shown here on sig. Can this be stated ? Google Ebay, Rush Limbaugh to see this matter, and the letter itself. 65.173.104.140 07:53, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Not all of us spend all our lives on the computer, and think it reasonable to have a telephone number and correspondence address for eBay to resolve problems. My problem started when out of the blue I received a letter fro a debt collector, stating their client eBay & some reference number that didn’t make any sense to me. I paid the money since I don’t like threats of legal action over me. The money has now been refunded by the debt collector.
The facts are that when I sent an email to eBay using their link to a message box, it bounced back. Other emails were replied to with a questionnaire to which my problem didn’t match any of their “tick boxes”. Other replies were of the brain dead type.
The point is I think it quite reasonable to have a correspondence address & telephone number to sort out problems. There’s something wrong with a company which doesn’t like giving out their address & only has a premium rate number, linked to some section of eBay I’m not interested in.
Anyway I was given eBay’s address in Europe from the debt collector in good faith as:
eBay Europe SARL, The Atrium Building Old Navan Rd Blancharstown Dublin 15 Ireland
The sensible thing would be for one user of wikipedia to check this out. if it is proved correct then it should included in the Customer care section of Ebay on the main pages. I did this but someone took it off, stating vandalism or some other nonsense.
Andybrookestar ( talk) 10:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
So, why is the VT thing an eBay controversy? Would it be a Wal-Mart controversy if he'd done his deed with a shotgun purchased at Wal-Mart? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 18:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, now there's another "controversy". An editor has inserted this:
* In November 2007, eBay began this survey of which one of the things it was about was forcing sellers to automatically leave positive feedback for buyers if the buyers paid quickly, making the sellers lose feedback privileges.
I removed it, asking in what way it's a controversy. It's not even a statement of policy; it's asking a question; there's no indication any policy change is in order. So, there might be a debate (not that the insertion points to any such debate), but controversy? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 06:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I am not going to press this issue anymore. William Ortiz ( talk) 10:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
eBay has decided to rollout their Finding 2.0 search function just days before the holiday shopping season. This has sent the sellers boards into a turmoil. I'm wondering why this should not be reflected in the article. And why is the article locked? Wuapinmon ( talk) 02:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
eBay is now only allowing paypal for credit card payments. See this screenshot from http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5581/00tf9.jpg . So I think this should be uploaded to Wikipedia and put in this article. Please discuss.
By the way there is already talk of it here and here. William Ortiz ( talk) 10:08, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't mention any antitrust lawsuits. Here's a PDF of one from summer 2007.
http://www.suspendedebayseller.com/docs/507-cv-03803-PVT_complaint.pdf
William Ortiz (
talk)
21:11, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
In reviewing the citations for this section I am concerned that A) they do not support the claims in the section and B) they do not even refer to eBay. The three currently listed are:
1) http://slightlyrandom.com/?p=20 2) http://www.instantservice.com/news/20041230.html 3) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/service.php
Citation 1 actually discussed how good eBays support is, 2 briefly mentions eBay in a bigger article about customer support on the internet in general and number 3 doesn't even mention eBay at all. I am not the most active or knowledgeable Wikipedian, so I would ask for advice on this. Do these sources support the section? Should we ask for more sources? What is the best way to improve this section? Thanks. (Moved from higher up the page) Kaid ( talk) 19:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
This thing from the new york times may not be notable, so I'm putting it in talk
These are two good articles. William Ortiz ( talk) 00:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I am surprised this has not been brought up before, but I for one would be very interested in the technology that runs eBay. It must be massive. Any takers? Tolstoy143 - "Quos vult perdere dementat" ( talk) 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Only simple PHP scripts and some HTML and CSS is enough to replicate eBay. The scripts just run on eBay's huge server. 71.236.95.5 ( talk) 21:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked the GA guidelines yesterday and it does appear that having an inadequate lead is enough to fail an article. Not meaning to be a 'bad guy', but it will have to be fixed within a week or so or the GA status will have to go. It looks like a nice article otherwise, and it shouldn't be too much work. Richard001 ( talk) 00:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
This might be useful in a fraud section but I don't know quite where to put it so I'm just listing it here to be of use to anyone in the future. http://tech.msn.com/howto/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6053210 William Ortiz ( talk) 01:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Should this be included?
The state of Pennsylvania has shut down the eBay business of Mary Jo Pletz, who started the endeavor so she could earn money at home while caring for her 6-month-old daughter, who had developed a brain tumor.
Pletz launched her business in 2004, when she realized she couldn't work full time because of Julia's medical tests and doctors visits. Her business, D&J Virtual Consignment, had 11,000 feedback comments on eBay and 14 were negative, Pletz said, giving her a 99.9 percent satisfaction rating. A few days after Christmas 2006, the state investigator drove up. She recalls his warning that the state was "drawing a line in the sand." Her crime? Selling goods on the Internet without an "auctioneer's license."
She cooperated with the government and shut down her successful business. However, not content with merely running her out of business, state officials are also prosecuting her, with a potential penalty of $1,000 per violation.
After shutting down her auction business, Pletz went back to work as a dental hygienist. Because of the complaint, Pletz worries the state also could revoke her dental hygienist's license, which she earned by attending community college for seven years at night.
The source is the Philidelphia Inquirer, [5] -- 75.181.81.73 ( talk) 09:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to tell you even though ebay does not allow you to sell human remains, they do. There are dozen of human bones on ebay for sale, and sometimes whole skeletons. As long as you place them in the medical section the auction shall not be removed.-- Margrave1206 ( talk) 17:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
What was the total volume of $USD exchanged over the eBay market place on an annual bases? Let's get a chart of the total every year since inception in 1998. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.130.21.76 ( talk) 06:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
This AfD is likely relevant for watchers of this article: EBay Boycott of 2008. - ZimZalaBim talk 04:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I am confused with this sentence
an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide.
As far as I know people do not sell or buy services on eBay. Or at least I have never seen such a thing done! Has anyone else seen services on eBay, I sure they are not sold on ebay but would like to check before doing anything! Inputdata ( talk) 18:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
ebay provides good service to get and sell any product from or to the concern person. I think this is fantastic service from ebay.
Why is this article locked for editing? (Or is it open for editing only for current and former eBay employees?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.23.57 ( talk) 05:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
So, from http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200803211515302, eBay uses its auction site to force PayPal, which is an illegal monopoly action. Jpgordon removed it from the controversy & criticism section [6] saying "In what way is that either a controversy or a criticism?". Now I find Jpgordon knows this article well so I am assuming there's a better place to put this in the article. Any ideas??? William Ortiz ( talk) 05:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm kinda suprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet. [7]
21st May, 2008:
"All items listed for sale on eBay.com.au must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods.
"
17th June, 2008:" All items appearing on eBay.com.au must be paid for using either:
• PayPal
• Visa/Mastercard (with transactions processed by PayPal)
• Pay on pick up (i.e. paid for when picking up the item)
No other payment methods will be accepted."
Naturally, this has created a bit of a stir. If eBay is proposing similar restrictions on it's UK website (and there are rumours that the Paypal only requirement will eventually be a global one), perhaps there should be some mention in the article (in the "controversies" section, or a sub-section of it's own?) Johnmc ( talk) 07:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
To add, this announcement was shortly after Australian News tonight ran a report on how paypal was unsafe for buyers and sellers. There's a youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=KAlM0E-zrhM but I think someone didn't like that as the refernce. If anyone can find the actual news company mentioning that on their website, it would be very good. William Ortiz ( talk) 00:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
This stuff should go in the article. William Ortiz ( talk) 04:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Another news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqpNsIg9vA William Ortiz ( talk) 22:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I've removed the latest addition to this section, as they were clearly leading and not neutral. It started with critical opinions stated as if they were established fact, and went on to report that, amazingly, competing auction services were critical of eBay and wanted their customers. Hardly noteworthy stuff. Illuminatum has done a good job documenting this, but there's a danger of a POV creeping in and the section as a whole could do with trimming and summarising as things develop. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 10:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Should Sniper auction programs be mentioned on here? Are these litterally last second bidding computer programs legal on eBay? 67.160.154.48 ( talk) 02:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
http://www.suspendedfromebay.com/?p=86
http://www.pheebay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=43193&highlight=vladuz
http://www.ebaymotorssucks.com/vladuz-is-back-again.htm
75.7.240.28 ( talk) 23:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hacking, legal threats, revenge, posting pink, posting user info...
All in one handy dandy news article. :D
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/25/ebay.hacking
75.7.240.28 ( talk) 12:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Since mystery auctions will no longer be allowed in June should this be removed from the article or would it be better to leave it in but note in the article that these are no longer allowed? Kaid ( talk) 03:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Several years ago, then-Yankee (or Mariner, I forget exactly when) pitcher Jeff Nelson had bone chips removed from his elbow. The bone chips wound up on eBay, not by him, but apparently with his blessing as the item description included a picture of the seller and Nelson together in what looked like a doctor's office. The auction was canceled by eBay on the grounds that human body parts could not be sold. I don't have a citation for this, though. Jimpoz ( talk) 20:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
In the Origins and early history section, the article makes a comparison, saying that ebay.com had 3 times as many 'hits' as walmart.com. I don't know if this is an entirely accurate comparison, as at least here in Australia, walmart is not really known very well, so we're comparing a (mostly) American website (walmart) with a website that has many more international versions (eBay). -- Stozball ( talk) 09:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes but it might be worth pointing out that walmart doses operate in the UK but under the name of ASDA. Which it does say in ASDA's article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inputdata ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the recent removal of spam, see also User talk:192.114.4.36#Seekingalpha.com spam and likely sockpuppetry. Thanks. - Colfer2 ( talk) 14:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I thought sentences in English started with capital letters. It doesn't matter what Ebay decides to call themselves (eBay or ebaY), any sentence that starts with their company name should start with a capital E. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.254.230 ( talk) 17:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
The article states, "eBay has already expanded to over two dozen countries including China and India. The only places where expansion failed were Taiwan and Japan," This seems to me to be a strictly point-of-view type of claim. It would also seem to be mistaken, as eBay's expansion into China for example(or failure thereof) is well-chronicled. I think there needs to be a citation supporting "the only places where expansion has failed were ...", or else changing the sentence to "the only places where eBay withdrew completely without buying a minority stake in a competitor were .."
Overall, if the article is to list all of the international web pages, there needs to be some kind of illustration about the relative sizes, or else the reader will be left with the false impression that each listed venture is significant relative to the whole. GMV listed, revenue, even page views per area, any of these would be an improvement. Failing that, may I suggest that the list be pruned or else removed entirely. Wphamilton ( talk) 22:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
I made a few minor changes in the services section. However, I propose to eliminate this part entirely:
The company's current business strategy includes increasing revenue by increasing international trade within the eBay system. citation needed eBay has already expanded to over two dozen countries including China and India. The only places where expansion failed were Taiwan and Japan, where Yahoo! had a head start, and New Zealand where TradeMe, owned by the Fairfax media group is the dominant online auction website.
since the portion relating to expansion is POV and not strictly accurate, and since without citation it really remains to be seen tha increasing international trade is a good description of their business strategy or even one of the higher priorities. Wphamilton ( talk) 22:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
The 5.25% fee quoted for Ebay.uk is incorrect. I have revised to 10%, which is the current % Ebay take. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.14.81.235 ( talk) 04:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Since eBay makes its money on commissions from listings and sales, it may not be in eBay's interest to take action against large sellers.[citation needed]
This is not the case as it will detract from ebay's market experience and having Fox news blow out a story about some guy who got ripped when he went to buy a TV on ebay is not in Ebay's interests. —Preceding
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Pandawelch (
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contribs)
12:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Actually, ebay DOES tend to ignore a lot of ciminal activity on their site. If you people actually checked, using such places as toolhaus.org and looked at the negs of powersellers in particular, you'd see there's a lot of fraud going on. Yet complaints by buyers to ebay fall on deaf ears. 75.8.38.39 ( talk) 20:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=collectionstop&Dirn=Received+by&ref=home
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=tsyedn&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=sunnking&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=cyclebidd
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=wntc&Dirn=Received+by (This seller is known to provide false tracking #'s)
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=99walker&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=firebuy.com&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=360wireless&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=ph13_mart&Dirn=Received+by
75.8.38.39 ( talk) 21:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
As a former employee of eBay who worked in Fraud and Customer Identity theft, I can verify there is a huge amount of fraud going on with eBay. Several of my recent co-workers have tried selling/buying semi high end electronics and have gotten bombarded with stolen/fraudulent accounts. EBay tries to stem the tide with half-hearted measures but the fraud is still rampant. They do little against fraud because they don't want to become liable for it. It's not so much a matter of getting more insertion fees but spending large amounts of money to police their site. Do a search for HDTVs or Sony Vaios on eBay and take a close look at the seller's feedback and what they used to sell if anything.
j_lechem@msn.com ( talk) 14:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
My impression is that eBay avoids issues of fraud whenever possible, but when forced to face the issue, they take the stance that "we're just a venue" and it's up to others to prove fraud. "We are a marketplace. We are not a retailer," said Hani Durzy, eBay spokesman.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6030048/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/technology/27ebay.html
Suggested wording to replace cited sentence: Because eBay is "just a venue," the company denies that it is complicit when sellers offer fake or fraudulent items for sale. (with link to NYTimes article)
Whbjr ( talk) 23:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Entry says that IBM sells new product on eBay. Is it true? Supporting evidence? I'd like to check them out. 167.239.217.16 ( talk) 12:39, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
The "Controversy and criticisms" section is getting quite large. I suggest splitting it into a separate Criticism of eBay article, similar to Criticism of Google or Criticism of Yahoo!. -- ZimZalaBim talk 18:49, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, i 100 percent agree with this, because hell, if Walmart can get its own section of their own BS. then why can't Ebay? They are just as bad. lol-- Dr. Pizza ( talk) 16:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
For my wiki-editing debut, I cleaned up a few style points. I don't feel up to this bit, though, and seek opinion. The last sentence under Items & Services is:
eBay is also an easy place for unscrupulous sellers to market counterfeit merchandise, which can be difficult for novice buyers to distinguish without careful study of the auction description.
While that strikes me as glaringly obvious, it also comes across as opinion, or at least unsupported fact. Perhaps it needs rewrite, or a citation? Alias1219 ( talk) 20:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
I believe they are but airgun parts and other stuff such as pellets are not. Maybe it should be included in the section about prohibited items? 87.59.78.27 ( talk) 22:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
the people that made homestar runner tried to sell a half eaten breakfast burrito. the bid maxed out, and they took it down 75.58.17.181 ( talk) 05:33, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
www.ebay.cn? Is this an authentic new ebay china and if so shouldnt it be on the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.196.58 ( talk) 18:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
How does the article benefit from the statement, "...Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus"? I do not see this as essential and enriching to the article. I am not familiar with the reference, nor is there anything after the sentence to really link it to eBay in terms of enriching the reader's knowledge of eBay. Basically, this appears to be a "tidbit" of information. -- Zer0Nin3r ( talk) 02:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I changed the prologue back, since the text there is badly written and is unjustly damaging to ebay. Weeddude ( talk) 16:48, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Ebay has made so many changes that have made it more difficult to sell on it's site, that one doesn't know where to begin... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.199.17.127 ( talk) 22:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It seems now that the old website style has been completely removed and you cannot "opt out" anymore. 79.66.39.117 ( talk) 23:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes, eBay had been ruined. Why try and fix things that weren't broke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.79.174.227 ( talk) 18:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
This section is long & rambling and could really do with organisation, e.g. under subheadings for different types of item. Ben Finn ( talk) 17:53, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Looking at things in a positive side. eBay continues to develop to better cater to their members. They have new policies and regulations that if we are optimistic we will find it benigicial for everybody. Of course we can't please everybody, that is a given fact, but let us remember that the only thing constant is change. There is always room for improvement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.14.194.33 ( talk) 06:18, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
The image shows it is, but it isn't. 89.249.0.170 ( talk) 19:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of half.com in this article? Ebay did acquire this company some time in the late 1990's, and it is still active at half.com and in much the same state as it always has been. Midtempo-abg ( talk) 03:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
I've heard that eBay requires you to use Internet Explorer because of ActiveX controls when you put up an auction (or at least upload pictures). I looked it up, and it's true. Should this be mentioned in the article? Should it be in the Criticism of eBay article?-- Dullstar ( talk) 19:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
No, because it's wrong - I use eBay perfectly happily with Firefox. Lstanley1979 ( talk) 09:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeh thats correct.... —Preceding
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82.47.77.241 (
talk)
14:07, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
At least, that's what seems to have happened. According to the IP Addresses Talk page, the ip used is owned by eBay. As I said in my revert, I don't see how the whole section needs to be blanked, since Dutch Auctions were a part of eBay for so long, maybe just updated a bit.
If you are the editor in question, Hello! You may not have realized that your IP identified you as coming from eBay. You may wish to read WP:COI NipokNek ( talk) 06:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
The slogan group in the infobox doesn't look right. Here are two I've come up with...
250px|eBay corporate logo Come to think of it, eBay.
What ever it is, you can get it on eBay. Shop victoriously! From collectibles to cars, buy and sell all kinds of items on eBay Buy it, sell it, love it | |
220px The eBay homepage. | |
Type of business | Public ( Nasdaq: EBAY) |
---|---|
Type of site | Online auction |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | September 3, 1995 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Pierre Omidyar |
Key people |
Pierre Omidyar,
Chairman John Donahoe, CEO Lorrie Norrington, President of eBay Marketplaces |
Industry | Auctions |
Products |
Online auction hosting,
Electronic commerce,
Shopping mall PayPal, Skype, Gumtree, Kijiji, |
Revenue | ![]() |
Operating income | $ 2.075 billion (2008) |
Net income | ![]() |
Total assets | ![]() |
Total equity | - $ 11.083 billion (2008) |
Employees | 15,500 (Q1 2008) |
URL |
www.ebay.com List of domain names |
Registration | Required to buy and sell |
250px|eBay corporate logo Come to think of it, eBay.
| |
220px The eBay homepage. | |
Type of business | Public ( Nasdaq: EBAY) |
---|---|
Type of site | Online auction |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | September 3, 1995 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Pierre Omidyar |
Key people |
Pierre Omidyar,
Chairman John Donahoe, CEO Lorrie Norrington, President of eBay Marketplaces |
Industry | Auctions |
Products |
Online auction hosting,
Electronic commerce,
Shopping mall PayPal, Skype, Gumtree, Kijiji, |
Revenue | ![]() |
Operating income | $ 2.075 billion (2008) |
Net income | ![]() |
Total assets | ![]() |
Total equity | - $ 11.083 billion (2008) |
Employees | 15,500 (Q1 2008) |
URL |
www.ebay.com List of domain names |
Registration | Required to buy and sell |
Any other ideas? ~ ς ح д r خ є ~ 04:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
The "Environmental record" section should be deleted. Lots of businesses are trying to do eco-friendly things these days, and there is no assertion of notability (i.e. world's biggest, world's first etc) in what eBay has done, so there is no reason for it to be in the article. Peter Ballard ( talk) 08:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The website cannot be reached. Furthermore I cannot find any information about ebay.eg. Someone tried to add (now defuncted) as for eBay China comment but that was reverted. 138.246.37.177 ( talk) 18:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
There are too many sites listed here that are unrelated-to-ebay redirects or just unreachable... I don't know how they got here in the first place, but this list needs a big clean-up. Alinor ( talk) 15:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Is the list removal discussed here what has caused the "localized websites" link to stop working? The phrase appears as an html hyperlink but doesn't go anywhere.-- SpacemanSpiff27 ( talk) 19:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MiszaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 30 days and keep at least ten threads.-- Oneiros ( talk) 02:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
There's a problem with the ambiguous wording of these two sentences:
Does this mean the often-repeated story was "confirmed," or confirmed to have been fabricated? rowley ( talk) 19:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
IP editor recently added a paragraph to the Unusual Sale Item section, which I removed. The IP editor disputes my actions and says that as a cited addition it should remain. I would be grateful for other's input. I removed it for the following reasons;
Aside from this one addition, there are a number of related problems with section. The entire section suffers from a fundamental POV weakness in that there is no clear, objective and neutral definition of what counts as 'Unusual'. More than a few of the articles mentioned are also short lived publicity stunts or jokes. There should be a clearer division between eBay as a place selling items with a very unusual or limited market, and eBay as a place to stage a publicity stunt and/or joke. So if these are truly notable, would they not be better in a different section? -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 12:38, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
the last section under unusual items is an obvious act of vandalism; would someone please fix this? Shaminabuddy ( talk) 09:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the prohibited items are listed in the article? It seems out of place? It mention rather odd things for a website article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.137.177.20 ( talk) 09:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
This may be related to what someone was talking about vandalism, but it appears as if someone swapped the profit/loss widget in the reporting column. I am pretty sure that I am reading the source correctly, in that they gained $1.8B in 2010, not lost it.
I am going to go ahead and change it, but please let me know if I am reading this wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Electrostatic1 ( talk • contribs) 00:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm a bit concerned by the apparent random selection in the section. There are now on the order of 2000 books with "eBay" in the title; what's so special and important about these? In what way is, say, eBay for Dummies more worthy of inclusion than any of the other "how to" books? Is this list really necessary at all? -- jpgordon ::==( o ) 19:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I have removed Michael Dean Johnson as a founder of eBay. I am not able to find any information on who this person is other than random websites claiming that he is an eBay founder. There is no information on how he was involved, just that he was. Also, none of the websites were any that I would call credible if writing a research paper. Finally, every credible source I can find only mentions Pierre Omidyar. Kaid ( talk) 08:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
I was surprised to see no mention in this article of the practice of bid sniping. Should there be? — Steve Summit ( talk) 02:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
This page is about a website and also a great company.So, I request a semi-protection for this article. Rsamahamed 15:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsamahamed ( talk • contribs)
It seems like MercadoLibre.com should be mentioned here. eBay is already mentioned in the ML.com article. http://investor.ebay.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=60309 brianfreud 23:30, 19 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianfreud ( talk • contribs)
There's hardly anything written about the feedback system even though it's a significant part of the eBay paradigm. There's a mention of changes, or how things differ from the "overall feedback" but nothing that describes what the "overall feedback" system is.
The whole notion of the feedback system was an essential distinguishing feature of eBay, since a person selling stroller in Peoria to a buyer in Oshkosh needed to know whether to send out the stroller first, or whether the buyer should send a check first. That was especially true before PayPal.
There's also no mention of the shift from the feedback based model to the prepaid/PayPal based model. Although PayPal is not an absolute requirement, there was a back door change to the overall policies when sellers were asked to specify when they are going to ship with respect to when (meaning how long after) they receive payment. Thus its purpose changed to one of a merchant rating system. Hagrinas ( talk) 19:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I've removed the "Further Reading" section on the article. I was unclear what the books listed have to merit having a plug for them on the article. Particularly when many of them appeared to be guides on how to run businesses on eBay, rather than being about eBay itself. If anyone has reasons why these books should be here, happy to hear them. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
The feedback ratings are no longer anonymous. I have an eBay account and I can see who has left me feedback. -- InformationContributor11 ( talk) 22:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
You are more than a bit confused, one could always see who left Feedback. And is not the same as The Rating System which is based on a 5 point scale concerning How Accurate was Description, How Fast was Item Shipped, How Reasonable were Shipping and Handling Fees, etc. is anonymous. 2602:306:CF5B:6C80:7DFF:2257:B79E:7C63 ( talk) 02:15, 16 October 2014 (UTC) Still Doc Ock
Just wondering whether Ebay should be described as a American Company registered in Switzerland as per the footer of official emails from Ebay i.e. eBay International AG Helvetiastrasse 15/17 - P.O. Box 133, 3000 Bern 6, Switzerland ? 203.22.239.98 ( talk) 09:38, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
The article states that the only places where expansion failed were Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand. However Taobao clearly outperformed eBay, despite eBay having a headstart after it acquired EachNet in 2002-03.
The Taobao article states:
"As a result, Taobao became the undisputed market leader in mainland China within two years. Its market share surged from 8% to 59% between 2003 and 2005, while eBay China's plunged from 79% to 36%.[7] Finally, eBay shut down its own site in China in 2006."
eBay's failure in China has become a classic case study in the field of International Business. It should be recognised here.
Here is a Forbes article covering eBay's failure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.149.29.251 ( talk) 05:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I've copied the following from my talk page to this talk page, so that additional editors can also view and comment the discussion. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
I've removed the passage simply because the article is not a WP:SOAPBOX for what someone considers "something bad about Ebay". Its a private (meaning non-government) for-profit website and entitled to police its listing and allow or disallow whatever it chooses. It has a history of shying away from controversial topics, so its not a surprise they removed an item like this. -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 05:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Scalhotrod. This was already accepted by editor Barek so I am confused why you deleted it. I am also confused as this is/was a major controversy, irrespective of whatever ebay allows or doesn't allow. eBay allowed Zimmerman to list his painting, but disallowed another artist listing their painting in response. This is extremely noteworthy and was referenced extensively. Can we have a third wiki editor review this as an impartial adjudicator? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamaze01 ( talk • contribs) 09:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
anyone know of, or what open source model may break Ebay's monopoly ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.3.213 ( talk) 14:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
why is there no info on ebay search tools, or do we just use google to search for things on ebay these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.0.231 ( talk) 11:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I propose merging Criticism of eBay with Ebay to create a more NPOV article. if the article becomes to long we can use topics and content to make subarticles. Bryce Carmony ( talk) 11:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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I've again reverted this addition from the lead, since the contributing editor has declined to do it, or discuss. My problems with this addition twofold;
-- Escape Orbit (Talk) 16:39, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
What's the difference? Ebay's name was always "eBay," which is written differently in text than its logo shows too! Kesha's "logo" was "Ke$ha." What's so "terrible" about having the distinctions for ebay? Is your lead really that "sacred"? What about the band " fun."? Why don't we go and remove all the stylization notes from the leads of all of those that have them, especially if they're just former?
And what about X Clan? And why don't THESE two articles need absolute time references either? Should I go look for some more? There are several more examples I can certainly use if these "aren't good enough" for you for some ridiculous reason!
If, by "refuses to work collaboratively," this combative user really means "refuses to be shut completely out" because he insists on reverting past the middle ground of having only the current stylization mentioned in the lead, which is actually what he and at least two others of you had already been reverting to, instead of just reverting to that again, then yeah, I refuse, of course!
But if, on the other hand, this combative user actually means what he says, then that's a bold-faced lie! I am here talking this out, am I not? I am proposing compromises that don't completely go in one direction or the other, am I not? This is collaboration! So if, amongst all the earlier reversions, you guys were happy to only revert to the way that it was before with the current stylization still mentioned in the lead but not the former one, then why are you so adamant to dig deeper now and eliminate both? What's making you now feel like you MUST go farther than the 2 points that you, including escape orbit, were already happy with before? --Still mobile for now, 2600:100E:B123:2252:1AE6:9744:E0EF:420 ( talk) 07:18, 30 December 2015 (UTC).
Prodego talk 07:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Back as
75.162.217.153 (
talk) now, I add the following:
"Refuses to work collaboratively" is actually what you guys are doing, because to you it must be all about what YOU guys want and nothing of what I want, and instead I should just be treated as second-class merely because I'm IP-only. LOL, "start a discussion on the talk page"? So what do you call ^^^ THIS ^^^ then?
Um, I'm talking about reversions that came before that, prodigo. The reversions that came before that are what escape orbit and his little buddy-buddies were already happy with going back to (where "[stylized as 'ebay']" remained) after I added mention of the former style to that part of the lead. So if they were happy with that, then why are you and your buddy-pals stooping to this new low of taking those both out? Is it just a ploy to get me to be happy with just having the article read the same old way as it did with the current style mentioned in the lead but not the new one (in other words, creating some new, worse but fake "bad news" so that the previous lesser, but real, bad news will just seem more acceptable to the receiver)?
And why even ask whether or not this "current" from the infobox should stay or not, since your little preffy-friend escape orbit already took that out as part of being consistent with his little complaint that I had added "currently" to the first mention of style? If you'd like to take him more seriously because he has a user name and he's... well... him, then why did that ever get removed in the first place, and then why was it reverted when you guys knew that I was taking it back out after that?
I get why the wiki community might favor editions from a "high-and-mighty admin," but why does it seem like most of it also bows down to non-admin named editors over IPers too, huh?
And why is it that you consider my reversions as "edit-warring" but you guys' are somehow "not" even though you're just putting the stuff back too? Have you forgotten that one of the rules regarding edit-warring includes "even if you believe you are right"? Well you guys think you are "right" and you keep reverting too. How are you guys supposedly "not" edit-warring too, huh?
I never said that changing my edits was akin to an insult, escape, but just by your saying that you deserve to feel that way about your own.
What you guys are calling "consensus" is actually not, unless you think "let us 3 or 4 guys leave one guy out" rightfully amounts to "consensus." But if you do, then you are actually the fool. I did not consent.
I already did answer your question, but you've chosen to be too ignorant to pay attention to it. Yet you have still not yet managed to answer mine about why, even though you were satisfied before with reverting to "(stylized as 'ebay')" without the former, you aren't even satisfied with that now and want to even use your half-smile buddy to remove even that now.
And why is it that you guys think you have to act like "just because you think something is unimportant then it actively must NOT be used? Since when did passive content require active prohibition?
And you haven't even answered why, even though you were the one who took off "current" from the infobox when you took "currently" from the style mention, one of you went and put "current" back ON the infobox for no good reason, or why when I took it back off, you had one of your little cohort buddies stick that back on even after you already wanted it off! It's like you guys can't make up your mind with that! What the hell is up with you guys? 2600:100E:B12A:E8CD:C519:4540:A829:37CD ( talk) 15:10, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
My name is Jennifer Lowe, and I work at eBay as a Web Content Specialist.
I’m hoping to be of some value in addressing information in the eBay Wikipedia page that may be either outdated or inaccurate.
For example, the paragraph about our 2014 security breach appears to confuse two separate events. In February 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army replaced the homepages for a very limited number of people visiting certain eBay and PayPal pages in the UK, France and India. The issue was quickly detected and resolved, and no customer accounts were affected. Source: [1]
The Syrian Electronic Army attack is separate from the security breach that required a password reset. As currently depicted in the Wikipedia entry, the two events appear to have been merged.
As noted in the existing sources for this paragraph, the security breach in May 2014 was a result of hackers compromising a small number of employee log-in credentials. The hackers did not gain access to financial information and users were forced to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure. Source: [2] and [3]
Based on this, how does this community feel about something like the following?: “In early February 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army replaced the eBay and PayPal homepages for a limited number of people in the UK, France and India. The issue was quickly detected and resolved, and no customer accounts were affected. In a separate event, on May 21, 2014, the company revealed that the consumer database of usernames, passwords, phone numbers, and physical addresses had been breached by hackers who compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials. eBay users were advised to change their passwords; in order to expedite this a "change password" feature was added to profiles of users who had not yet done so. The eBay stock value fell in response to the disclosure.”
Thanks for your consideration. I look forward to joining the conversation. Jennifer Lowe
JenniferKL ( talk) 22:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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I would like to add a line about eBay selling it's craigslist stake and the reference http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-19/ebay-sells-back-28-4-stake-in-craigslist-ending-litigation.
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Could somebody add "(as AuctionWeb)" next to the Start date and age template, so that it says "{Start date and age|1995|9|3} (as AuctionWeb)" to show its original founding name?
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Some of the subsidiaries are missing (see http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com for the classifieds related ones), e.g. Close5 ( http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com/brands-close5.html) which is gaining millions of App Store downloads. A recruiter reached out to me about it and I could not find a mention of it on wikipedia.
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Hey, Theroadislong, thanks for inviting me to discuss this thing about styling with you. This article, as well as many others with company logos, have had styling indicators on them for months or/and years, and people had been happy with it that way just up until December last year. Sure, it's not necessary, but the again, many things in articles aren't necessary but they help the reader relate. Now if so many other articles have styling indicators that aren't considered to be too cluttery, why should this article not take that same format? 180.149.231.229 ( talk) 13:04, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedians - I drafted a paragraph relating the the impact Beanie Babies had on eBay capturing so much market share in the early days - there are a wealth of references on this topic - if anyone can help me find more and expand on this, I think it would be awesome. The story is very fascinating and is a testament to how one product can have such an impact on innovation ... thanks!
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Please change Jamie Iannone's title from "CEO" to "President and CEO"
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Ebay is taking the right of having private feedbacks away from sellers as of 10/26. You will not be able to list an item to sell if your feedbacks are private. eBay has not bothered to notifiy sellers of this. The info here: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200610.shtml#2006-10-02120653
Also many people are complaining to ebay at: http://pages.ebay.com/help/newtoebay/suggest.html
Anomo 19:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Couple of comments about the "Other controversies" section:
-- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 20:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I've had someone Auction Snipe me twice! >:( Does this happen to anyone else? -Timmyfan
In the "Other Controversies" section it states that "eBay discourages sellers from using independent money-wiring companies such as Western Union and MoneyGram". I assume that this was added as people feel that this discourages competition for eBay's payment service, PayPal. If that is the case would this still be the case if that is not the reason it is discouraged? Both WU and MoneyGram discourage the use of their services on eBay as well: http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/mrkt_safety/instantcashtransfer.html#western If this is not the reason that this is considered controversial could someone clarify this? Kaid 16:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Moved to discussion down the page. Kaid ( talk) 06:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Link on WP for script: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Edit Top 70.111.218.254 13:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
A note about the third party providers/auction management software that help automate business on eBay?
Inc: Marketworks Channeladvisor Fruition
to name a few
19/10/2006
Free third party providers can be found on ebay.com under seller tools. The best one I have found is Turbo Lister.
Income being derived from Ebay on an automated basis is more than using third party providers. A discussion of third party providers that provide income on Ebay can be found here
I've tightened up the "unusual items" section, removing those that were only referred to by eBay item numbers (or copies of eBay listings), given that anyone who wants to can post something odd on eBay and then list it here. I've changed the comments so they say that external source for "unusualness" need be provided. -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 23:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
For anyone who likes to shop at eBay:
User:Bearly541/Userbox/Ebayaddict
B e arly 541 03:20, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Why did the creator request deletion?
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I am new to Wikipedia so please forgive my ignorance.
I have added a new section on eBay Stores.
Does anyone know how I add my cite in the References area? http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 16:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
What are all the References at the bottom of the page then? There are several self prmotional links there like 1, 5, 6, links to Auction Guild, etc.
Did I miss something?http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 17:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! I understand now about References and Wikipedia:External Links. I wanted to link to a page on my site that is directly related to eBay Stores and the design of them (eBay Radio even interviewed us on this).
Thanks again! http://www.proimpulse.com/ebay-store-design/ 20:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to confirm that e-Bay didn't acquire MercadoLibre, they just bought 19% of the stock and signed a deal that endend a couple of years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.126.244.172 ( talk) 02:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Under Acquisitions & investments, there needs to be some sort of edit to the statement "ebay aqcuired kruse auctions."
There needs to be grammar check, and information on when the aquisition occured. -( Theemojesus 20:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC))
Ebay did not acquire Mercadolibre.com, just a small percentage of it. This should be corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.216.234.165 ( talk) 17:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
MercadoLibre.com was not aquired totally, only a 19% of the stock. Look for the mercadolibre article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.3.108.21 ( talk) 23:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
During I think it was about 2003, a new MMORPG, Eve-Online, started.
I spent about six months playing, during which time I learned how to make a lot of in-game currency, which I was then selling on ebay.
A small number of other people were also engaged in this activity, and we got an idea of who was who through the ebay listings.
We found that fraudenlent buyers were a *major* problem. Buyers would pay with stolen credit cards and it would only be later that the payment would be recognized as fraudent. With Paypal in particular this was a major problem, since Paypal then billed the seller for the fraudent payment and because Paypal exlude virtual goods from their insurance programme. With other forms of payment (Western Union on-line money transfers, for example) this wasn't a problem because WU would honour the payment once it was made.
As a result, I began to track *all* the sales of ISK (the in-game currency) for a period of about two months.
It turned out to be very easy to spot a fraudent buyer. They would bid over the going rate and they would often bid on many auctions concurrently. This was of course because they weren't spending their own money and because they wanted to get as much ISK as possible before the card was detected as invalid.
There was only *one* case of a more sophisticated fraud, who built up a +5 reputation before going on a fraud spree. He did well, because ebay at that time only showed the current rating, which for him of course was only going down by -1 each time someone gave a negative feedback that he'd defrauded them. (From that episode, I learned to always check the full user history).
What I found was that about *HALF* of all bidders were fraudulent.
I emailed one seller who lost the equivelent of 3000 dollars of in-game currency.
I think this information is quite interesting and I wish/intend to add it to the Ebay page.
Any comments/suggestions?
Toby Douglass 18:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I note an unusual amount of edits by Jpgordon wiki admin and ex ebay employee. I wonder if this is the best person, a self stated former employee & ebay programmer, to be chronically editing and monitoring the page, and by comments, apparently this is a pet project. STeve 65.8.240.227 00:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I threw in one, it would be cool to see other people add other ones that they know of. They run around 5 or 10 a week and have an entire department dedicated to it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jazzmaster j ( talk • contribs) 17:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
Isn't this highly subjective? Only an external link is required? This section seems out of place in Wikipedia and doesn't contribute to the article nor does it even list some of the more peculiar items that have sold on ebay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.124.45.194 ( talk) 03:44, 25 December 2006 (UTC).
Yes, I once saw someone trying to sell a link to a website. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the link was stated in the product description. Even better, there were bids on it. 69.251.157.48 12:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)ARANDOMGENIUS 69.251.157.48 12:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again. Cbrown1023 02:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[MAGBAZA] http://www.magbaza.com/ Adds Trust and Reliability to Buy From China by ebay Headquartered in Hongkong, China, MAGBAZA and its operating subsidiaries provide MAGBAZA services that facilitate and accelerate purchasing from China by assuring secure settlement and providing supplier investigation services and other helpful services. It’s a fast growing team with representative offices and cooperators all over main cities of China. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 221.221.116.199 ( talk)
The logo says "ebay", or maybe ebaY, not eBay. 67.188.172.165 23:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
So is 'egay' but I wouldnt mention it on the wiki page 62.25.106.209 05:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Some users have been frustrated with Ebay's customer service. All problems must be resolved by email, there is no way to speak directly to a person. Email responses are often canned responses. The frustration with Ebay's failure to improve has given rise to a petition calling for customer service improval.
This text has been removed 3 times without a valid explanation. According WP:RS this classes as a primary source. Incidentally, I have no affiliation with the petition website. Although at least one of the reverters works/worked for eBay.
Could you please give your reasons rather than just starting revert war? Pgr94 19:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
EBay does, in fact, have a phone support department, but that service is limited to members of the rank "Gold PowerSeller"
This could be put more accurately. General phone support during business hours is available for "Silver Powersellers" ($3,000 per month). Gold level powersellers may call an "account manager" who is assigned to their account and a number of others, up to hundreds. Top level powersellers and subscribers to Anchor Stores have 24/7 dedicated support. It may be better to express the criticism more generally if at all since none of this really shows the true picture. Should this section even be included without references to litigation, testimony etc? Wphamilton 02:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
And now, even more accurately, eBay offers phone support for all eBay Store subscribers as well as PowerSellers of Silver level and above. (Premium and Anchor stores get 24/7. http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200709041243562.html) Kaid 04:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
The "Items and Sevices" section reads like an advertisement to me. Anyone else get that feeling when they read it? worthawholebean talk contribs 05:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Does the list belong in the article, or should it be kept to prose and an external link to their policies. I'm aware the topic is notable enough to include, though I don't know if a list of prohibited items is good encyclopedic practice. Richard001 00:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I cannot fathom how "misspellings" can be listed as a controversy or a criticism. I also do not think that sniping should be included in this list. The entire section could probably be organized better with some additional information on other problems that ebay has with dealing with fraud. DanielZimmerman 16:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
In the most recent archive it is mentioned that the Fraud section has a lot of what appears to be OR. I tend to agree, especially with the lack of citations in this section. I will be working on a rewrite unless anyone has any objections. DanielZimmerman 14:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
i think under fraud they should do the chinese mp4 player scam.. as ebay is flooded with counterfit music players with hacked memory (1gb made to look like 4gb) and maybe links related to it 82.24.175.199 01:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I sue you 23:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Fraudsters (irrespective of how menial the fraud) are creatures of habit and if they are committing fraud on eBay, they are committing it elsewhere. Several have tried it on me and I have recovered every penny (including postage) - it's actually quite easy, just think like them. Remember there are more ways of skinning a cat! 00.36, 24 July 2007 (ISU) I sue you 23:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Why doesn't this article use the {{lowercase|eBay}} template? 134.250.72.142 21:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Does that mean it's impossible to get such items as Hitler Youth knifes? Or does that just mean pro-nazi books and such? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.174.93.102 ( talk) 05:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC).
Ok I find this somewhat weird. I was on there trying to buy a m43 field cap on ebay. Most of the results (and there were lots of listed items) said that I could not view/purchase the item when I tried to click on them because of "legal restrictions in your home country". I live in New Jersey, in the United States of America, and I have never heard of such a prohibition. Furthermore, I was allowed to click on and get to the details page of some of the hats. Ironicly, this ones were what I would think would be the more controversial ones addorned with Totenkopfe, the Reichsadler, and also ones in the iconic "pea-pattern" Waffen-SS camouflage. I have no idea what this was all about... they aren't even banned in Germany to the best of my knowledge (plain ones, without explicit Nazi symbols that is), seeing as their Gebirgsjäger still wear basically the same hat. Does anyone know the status of this? (And by the way don't want it because I'm a neo-nazi or something... I actually planned to put a hammer and sickle or hammer and compass symbol on it) -- KobaVanDerLubbe ( talk) 16:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Ebay's US phone number 08887493229, is not a "closely guarded secret", even if ebay does not publish it. First of all, it's public information. Second, it can be found doing a simple google search. Hardy secret, I would say.
[3]Toll free General phone support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling 1-866-442-3229. For Trust and Safety related issues (such as feedback removal, non-paying bidder, ended listings or suspensions) call 1-866-442-3229 6am-6pm PT, seven days a week.
I detected a blatant case of shill bidding and reported it to eBay. I cited a dozen or so auctions in which it happened in a completely obvious fashion (e.g. items accidently bought by the shill bidder were later 'resold' by the original seller!!). I received absolutely no reply to my emails to eBay and the fraudulent seller is still on line and still shill bidding!! eBay is a disgrace KarenFischer 12:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes Karen, ebay only cares about the seller. The people who pay for items (the buyer) don't matter. No buyers no ebay. And Jpgordon most be getting well paid for defending them. 81.151.68.233 15:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
[ [4]]Actually Ebay will side with the Buyers every single time, i have been a platinum seller since 2004 and i have lost every dispute, to say the truth i only answer the disputes so Ebay would not say i did not show any interest in helping solve the issue,because i know they just side with the buyers! Why? because Ebay does not have any control over the buyer, but it SURELY does over the seller!! Watches777( Watches777 ( talk) 01:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)).
I added Prostores to this eBay wiki entry because Prostores is owned by eBay as well. i need to improve on my Prostores article I wrote and I'm sure the people that come to this eBay link should help me on that now. The Cleveland Browns are awesome! 14:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
A list of countries that eBay has websites for should be added to the article. Does anyone have any infomration on this? ANNAfoxlover 02:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I always thought the pronounciation of eBay was like in 'bay', 'hey'. The other day I heard someone say it like 'ebuy' or 'ebye'. Which is right?
88.91.213.194 04:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
ive always heard it rhyming with hay. that sounds like an accent.
Maddie was here
05:34, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Feedback abuse:
A practice among some sellers is to hold feedback hostage. Even though the buyer paid promptly, the seller refuses to leave feedback. A further abuse of this is that some sellers deliberately withhold feedback so that if a customer is not satisfied with a purchase, no matter how legitimate their reason is, the seller may then use their feedback for malicious retaliation against the buyer, intentionally damaging their feedback score and reputation, and thus, their buying and selling ability, as buyers and sellers both often rely on the feedback score in deciding whether or not to do business with a particular individual. Abacene
"retaliatory Feedback is strongly discouraged on eBay" "some eBay members choose not to leave feedback" These are word-for-word quotes directly from Ebay, which acknowledges that the problem does exist. Source: Ebay - Direct word-for-word quotes
This is the latest change from Ebay about feedback policies.
The eBay Feedback system was designed to provide a simple, honest, accurate record of member experiences. Focusing on customer service includes doing everything we can to grow customer confidence in our sellers.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Watches777 ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I think the fiscal accounts are not encyclopedic and the section should be removed. Stifle ( talk) 09:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
This used to be in here and is a valuable metric. Somehow it got cut. Could someone please put this back in? I haven't followed the edit discussion here or I'd do it. I've seen eBay estimate 1.3 million primary-income sellers in the US, but I don't know the original source of this data. Thank you.
Well seeing as the customer support is so great and I can't edit this section, can someone tell me the UK number where I can enjoy this service? I want to report someone setting up a fake account at my home address. Considering the hassle I have had trying to inform eBay, I think my addition (previously posted by another user a few days ago) was rather benign. 195.137.127.145 21:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
It is about 2.4 Million earn a living on eBay.
I was suprised to find no mention of Ebay's mobile offering. Perhaps because the full offering is not available in the US. Anyway here is the link:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/mobile/
Mathiastck 17:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Something seems to be wrong with the external links. Two are the same. I don't know why we need the support page.
One is very unclear ( http://pages.ebay.co.uk/mobile/). Why is it there? Is this an ad for Ebay? Perhaps it would be better to mention using ebay with mobiles somewhere in the text above. Plus: why hasn't it got a name?
The last one, most-watched, is OK is guess (though removing it would be OK as well).
HJ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.83.206.204 ( talk) 22:55:58, August 19, 2007 (UTC)
Why is Overstock Auctions listed as one of "eBay's rivals"? With about 1/1000th of the listings (not even including eBay store format listings), and barely even a net profit compared to billions every quarter, Overstock Auctions rivals auctions on some private websites, but hardly eBay. This hype from 2004 Overstock press releases doesn't belong here. Is the idea to list those sites considering themselves competitors of eBay, or realistic competitors? If the former, there's a list of about a dozen which may merit inclusion. Wphamilton 22:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, can someone add Turkey to the Ebay countries list (reference #1)? They have recently opened a Turkish site as well.. I tried to add it but apparently article is locked.. Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.28.232 ( talk) 15:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Someone should fact-check this section please. 1) eBay expansion has failed in China, not merely Taiwan and Japan. 2) Not all states require sales tax from out of state sales. 3) The section also seems to deny or ignore the expansions which are not strictly attempts to penetrate markets in new geographical regions. Those are the expansions which have been powering eBay's recent growth, moreso than opening new countries. Wphamilton 08:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Can some one please inculde the net income or profits of this company as found in all the other companies articles. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikhilhuilgol ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm confused...So how big a share in this Korean auction site does ebay have? Do they entirely own it now?-- Josquius 18:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Rush Limbaugh placed a letter that allegedly "smeared" him on Ebay. It went for $2.1 MILLION. this happened two days before the time shown here on sig. Can this be stated ? Google Ebay, Rush Limbaugh to see this matter, and the letter itself. 65.173.104.140 07:53, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Not all of us spend all our lives on the computer, and think it reasonable to have a telephone number and correspondence address for eBay to resolve problems. My problem started when out of the blue I received a letter fro a debt collector, stating their client eBay & some reference number that didn’t make any sense to me. I paid the money since I don’t like threats of legal action over me. The money has now been refunded by the debt collector.
The facts are that when I sent an email to eBay using their link to a message box, it bounced back. Other emails were replied to with a questionnaire to which my problem didn’t match any of their “tick boxes”. Other replies were of the brain dead type.
The point is I think it quite reasonable to have a correspondence address & telephone number to sort out problems. There’s something wrong with a company which doesn’t like giving out their address & only has a premium rate number, linked to some section of eBay I’m not interested in.
Anyway I was given eBay’s address in Europe from the debt collector in good faith as:
eBay Europe SARL, The Atrium Building Old Navan Rd Blancharstown Dublin 15 Ireland
The sensible thing would be for one user of wikipedia to check this out. if it is proved correct then it should included in the Customer care section of Ebay on the main pages. I did this but someone took it off, stating vandalism or some other nonsense.
Andybrookestar ( talk) 10:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
So, why is the VT thing an eBay controversy? Would it be a Wal-Mart controversy if he'd done his deed with a shotgun purchased at Wal-Mart? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 18:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, now there's another "controversy". An editor has inserted this:
* In November 2007, eBay began this survey of which one of the things it was about was forcing sellers to automatically leave positive feedback for buyers if the buyers paid quickly, making the sellers lose feedback privileges.
I removed it, asking in what way it's a controversy. It's not even a statement of policy; it's asking a question; there's no indication any policy change is in order. So, there might be a debate (not that the insertion points to any such debate), but controversy? -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 06:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I am not going to press this issue anymore. William Ortiz ( talk) 10:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
eBay has decided to rollout their Finding 2.0 search function just days before the holiday shopping season. This has sent the sellers boards into a turmoil. I'm wondering why this should not be reflected in the article. And why is the article locked? Wuapinmon ( talk) 02:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
eBay is now only allowing paypal for credit card payments. See this screenshot from http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5581/00tf9.jpg . So I think this should be uploaded to Wikipedia and put in this article. Please discuss.
By the way there is already talk of it here and here. William Ortiz ( talk) 10:08, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't mention any antitrust lawsuits. Here's a PDF of one from summer 2007.
http://www.suspendedebayseller.com/docs/507-cv-03803-PVT_complaint.pdf
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In reviewing the citations for this section I am concerned that A) they do not support the claims in the section and B) they do not even refer to eBay. The three currently listed are:
1) http://slightlyrandom.com/?p=20 2) http://www.instantservice.com/news/20041230.html 3) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/service.php
Citation 1 actually discussed how good eBays support is, 2 briefly mentions eBay in a bigger article about customer support on the internet in general and number 3 doesn't even mention eBay at all. I am not the most active or knowledgeable Wikipedian, so I would ask for advice on this. Do these sources support the section? Should we ask for more sources? What is the best way to improve this section? Thanks. (Moved from higher up the page) Kaid ( talk) 19:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
This thing from the new york times may not be notable, so I'm putting it in talk
These are two good articles. William Ortiz ( talk) 00:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I am surprised this has not been brought up before, but I for one would be very interested in the technology that runs eBay. It must be massive. Any takers? Tolstoy143 - "Quos vult perdere dementat" ( talk) 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Only simple PHP scripts and some HTML and CSS is enough to replicate eBay. The scripts just run on eBay's huge server. 71.236.95.5 ( talk) 21:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked the GA guidelines yesterday and it does appear that having an inadequate lead is enough to fail an article. Not meaning to be a 'bad guy', but it will have to be fixed within a week or so or the GA status will have to go. It looks like a nice article otherwise, and it shouldn't be too much work. Richard001 ( talk) 00:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
This might be useful in a fraud section but I don't know quite where to put it so I'm just listing it here to be of use to anyone in the future. http://tech.msn.com/howto/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6053210 William Ortiz ( talk) 01:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Should this be included?
The state of Pennsylvania has shut down the eBay business of Mary Jo Pletz, who started the endeavor so she could earn money at home while caring for her 6-month-old daughter, who had developed a brain tumor.
Pletz launched her business in 2004, when she realized she couldn't work full time because of Julia's medical tests and doctors visits. Her business, D&J Virtual Consignment, had 11,000 feedback comments on eBay and 14 were negative, Pletz said, giving her a 99.9 percent satisfaction rating. A few days after Christmas 2006, the state investigator drove up. She recalls his warning that the state was "drawing a line in the sand." Her crime? Selling goods on the Internet without an "auctioneer's license."
She cooperated with the government and shut down her successful business. However, not content with merely running her out of business, state officials are also prosecuting her, with a potential penalty of $1,000 per violation.
After shutting down her auction business, Pletz went back to work as a dental hygienist. Because of the complaint, Pletz worries the state also could revoke her dental hygienist's license, which she earned by attending community college for seven years at night.
The source is the Philidelphia Inquirer, [5] -- 75.181.81.73 ( talk) 09:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to tell you even though ebay does not allow you to sell human remains, they do. There are dozen of human bones on ebay for sale, and sometimes whole skeletons. As long as you place them in the medical section the auction shall not be removed.-- Margrave1206 ( talk) 17:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
What was the total volume of $USD exchanged over the eBay market place on an annual bases? Let's get a chart of the total every year since inception in 1998. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.130.21.76 ( talk) 06:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
This AfD is likely relevant for watchers of this article: EBay Boycott of 2008. - ZimZalaBim talk 04:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I am confused with this sentence
an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide.
As far as I know people do not sell or buy services on eBay. Or at least I have never seen such a thing done! Has anyone else seen services on eBay, I sure they are not sold on ebay but would like to check before doing anything! Inputdata ( talk) 18:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
ebay provides good service to get and sell any product from or to the concern person. I think this is fantastic service from ebay.
Why is this article locked for editing? (Or is it open for editing only for current and former eBay employees?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.23.57 ( talk) 05:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
So, from http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200803211515302, eBay uses its auction site to force PayPal, which is an illegal monopoly action. Jpgordon removed it from the controversy & criticism section [6] saying "In what way is that either a controversy or a criticism?". Now I find Jpgordon knows this article well so I am assuming there's a better place to put this in the article. Any ideas??? William Ortiz ( talk) 05:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm kinda suprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet. [7]
21st May, 2008:
"All items listed for sale on eBay.com.au must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods.
"
17th June, 2008:" All items appearing on eBay.com.au must be paid for using either:
• PayPal
• Visa/Mastercard (with transactions processed by PayPal)
• Pay on pick up (i.e. paid for when picking up the item)
No other payment methods will be accepted."
Naturally, this has created a bit of a stir. If eBay is proposing similar restrictions on it's UK website (and there are rumours that the Paypal only requirement will eventually be a global one), perhaps there should be some mention in the article (in the "controversies" section, or a sub-section of it's own?) Johnmc ( talk) 07:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
To add, this announcement was shortly after Australian News tonight ran a report on how paypal was unsafe for buyers and sellers. There's a youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=KAlM0E-zrhM but I think someone didn't like that as the refernce. If anyone can find the actual news company mentioning that on their website, it would be very good. William Ortiz ( talk) 00:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
This stuff should go in the article. William Ortiz ( talk) 04:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Another news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqpNsIg9vA William Ortiz ( talk) 22:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I've removed the latest addition to this section, as they were clearly leading and not neutral. It started with critical opinions stated as if they were established fact, and went on to report that, amazingly, competing auction services were critical of eBay and wanted their customers. Hardly noteworthy stuff. Illuminatum has done a good job documenting this, but there's a danger of a POV creeping in and the section as a whole could do with trimming and summarising as things develop. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 10:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Should Sniper auction programs be mentioned on here? Are these litterally last second bidding computer programs legal on eBay? 67.160.154.48 ( talk) 02:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
http://www.suspendedfromebay.com/?p=86
http://www.pheebay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=43193&highlight=vladuz
http://www.ebaymotorssucks.com/vladuz-is-back-again.htm
75.7.240.28 ( talk) 23:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hacking, legal threats, revenge, posting pink, posting user info...
All in one handy dandy news article. :D
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/25/ebay.hacking
75.7.240.28 ( talk) 12:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Since mystery auctions will no longer be allowed in June should this be removed from the article or would it be better to leave it in but note in the article that these are no longer allowed? Kaid ( talk) 03:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Several years ago, then-Yankee (or Mariner, I forget exactly when) pitcher Jeff Nelson had bone chips removed from his elbow. The bone chips wound up on eBay, not by him, but apparently with his blessing as the item description included a picture of the seller and Nelson together in what looked like a doctor's office. The auction was canceled by eBay on the grounds that human body parts could not be sold. I don't have a citation for this, though. Jimpoz ( talk) 20:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
In the Origins and early history section, the article makes a comparison, saying that ebay.com had 3 times as many 'hits' as walmart.com. I don't know if this is an entirely accurate comparison, as at least here in Australia, walmart is not really known very well, so we're comparing a (mostly) American website (walmart) with a website that has many more international versions (eBay). -- Stozball ( talk) 09:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes but it might be worth pointing out that walmart doses operate in the UK but under the name of ASDA. Which it does say in ASDA's article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inputdata ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the recent removal of spam, see also User talk:192.114.4.36#Seekingalpha.com spam and likely sockpuppetry. Thanks. - Colfer2 ( talk) 14:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I thought sentences in English started with capital letters. It doesn't matter what Ebay decides to call themselves (eBay or ebaY), any sentence that starts with their company name should start with a capital E. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.254.230 ( talk) 17:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
The article states, "eBay has already expanded to over two dozen countries including China and India. The only places where expansion failed were Taiwan and Japan," This seems to me to be a strictly point-of-view type of claim. It would also seem to be mistaken, as eBay's expansion into China for example(or failure thereof) is well-chronicled. I think there needs to be a citation supporting "the only places where expansion has failed were ...", or else changing the sentence to "the only places where eBay withdrew completely without buying a minority stake in a competitor were .."
Overall, if the article is to list all of the international web pages, there needs to be some kind of illustration about the relative sizes, or else the reader will be left with the false impression that each listed venture is significant relative to the whole. GMV listed, revenue, even page views per area, any of these would be an improvement. Failing that, may I suggest that the list be pruned or else removed entirely. Wphamilton ( talk) 22:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
I made a few minor changes in the services section. However, I propose to eliminate this part entirely:
The company's current business strategy includes increasing revenue by increasing international trade within the eBay system. citation needed eBay has already expanded to over two dozen countries including China and India. The only places where expansion failed were Taiwan and Japan, where Yahoo! had a head start, and New Zealand where TradeMe, owned by the Fairfax media group is the dominant online auction website.
since the portion relating to expansion is POV and not strictly accurate, and since without citation it really remains to be seen tha increasing international trade is a good description of their business strategy or even one of the higher priorities. Wphamilton ( talk) 22:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
The 5.25% fee quoted for Ebay.uk is incorrect. I have revised to 10%, which is the current % Ebay take. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.14.81.235 ( talk) 04:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Since eBay makes its money on commissions from listings and sales, it may not be in eBay's interest to take action against large sellers.[citation needed]
This is not the case as it will detract from ebay's market experience and having Fox news blow out a story about some guy who got ripped when he went to buy a TV on ebay is not in Ebay's interests. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Pandawelch (
talk •
contribs)
12:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Actually, ebay DOES tend to ignore a lot of ciminal activity on their site. If you people actually checked, using such places as toolhaus.org and looked at the negs of powersellers in particular, you'd see there's a lot of fraud going on. Yet complaints by buyers to ebay fall on deaf ears. 75.8.38.39 ( talk) 20:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=collectionstop&Dirn=Received+by&ref=home
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=tsyedn&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=sunnking&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=cyclebidd
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=wntc&Dirn=Received+by (This seller is known to provide false tracking #'s)
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=99walker&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=firebuy.com&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=360wireless&Dirn=Received+by
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=ph13_mart&Dirn=Received+by
75.8.38.39 ( talk) 21:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
As a former employee of eBay who worked in Fraud and Customer Identity theft, I can verify there is a huge amount of fraud going on with eBay. Several of my recent co-workers have tried selling/buying semi high end electronics and have gotten bombarded with stolen/fraudulent accounts. EBay tries to stem the tide with half-hearted measures but the fraud is still rampant. They do little against fraud because they don't want to become liable for it. It's not so much a matter of getting more insertion fees but spending large amounts of money to police their site. Do a search for HDTVs or Sony Vaios on eBay and take a close look at the seller's feedback and what they used to sell if anything.
j_lechem@msn.com ( talk) 14:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
My impression is that eBay avoids issues of fraud whenever possible, but when forced to face the issue, they take the stance that "we're just a venue" and it's up to others to prove fraud. "We are a marketplace. We are not a retailer," said Hani Durzy, eBay spokesman.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6030048/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/technology/27ebay.html
Suggested wording to replace cited sentence: Because eBay is "just a venue," the company denies that it is complicit when sellers offer fake or fraudulent items for sale. (with link to NYTimes article)
Whbjr ( talk) 23:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Entry says that IBM sells new product on eBay. Is it true? Supporting evidence? I'd like to check them out. 167.239.217.16 ( talk) 12:39, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
The "Controversy and criticisms" section is getting quite large. I suggest splitting it into a separate Criticism of eBay article, similar to Criticism of Google or Criticism of Yahoo!. -- ZimZalaBim talk 18:49, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, i 100 percent agree with this, because hell, if Walmart can get its own section of their own BS. then why can't Ebay? They are just as bad. lol-- Dr. Pizza ( talk) 16:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
For my wiki-editing debut, I cleaned up a few style points. I don't feel up to this bit, though, and seek opinion. The last sentence under Items & Services is:
eBay is also an easy place for unscrupulous sellers to market counterfeit merchandise, which can be difficult for novice buyers to distinguish without careful study of the auction description.
While that strikes me as glaringly obvious, it also comes across as opinion, or at least unsupported fact. Perhaps it needs rewrite, or a citation? Alias1219 ( talk) 20:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
I believe they are but airgun parts and other stuff such as pellets are not. Maybe it should be included in the section about prohibited items? 87.59.78.27 ( talk) 22:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
the people that made homestar runner tried to sell a half eaten breakfast burrito. the bid maxed out, and they took it down 75.58.17.181 ( talk) 05:33, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
www.ebay.cn? Is this an authentic new ebay china and if so shouldnt it be on the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.196.58 ( talk) 18:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
How does the article benefit from the statement, "...Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus"? I do not see this as essential and enriching to the article. I am not familiar with the reference, nor is there anything after the sentence to really link it to eBay in terms of enriching the reader's knowledge of eBay. Basically, this appears to be a "tidbit" of information. -- Zer0Nin3r ( talk) 02:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I changed the prologue back, since the text there is badly written and is unjustly damaging to ebay. Weeddude ( talk) 16:48, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Ebay has made so many changes that have made it more difficult to sell on it's site, that one doesn't know where to begin... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.199.17.127 ( talk) 22:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It seems now that the old website style has been completely removed and you cannot "opt out" anymore. 79.66.39.117 ( talk) 23:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes, eBay had been ruined. Why try and fix things that weren't broke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.79.174.227 ( talk) 18:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
This section is long & rambling and could really do with organisation, e.g. under subheadings for different types of item. Ben Finn ( talk) 17:53, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Looking at things in a positive side. eBay continues to develop to better cater to their members. They have new policies and regulations that if we are optimistic we will find it benigicial for everybody. Of course we can't please everybody, that is a given fact, but let us remember that the only thing constant is change. There is always room for improvement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.14.194.33 ( talk) 06:18, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
The image shows it is, but it isn't. 89.249.0.170 ( talk) 19:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of half.com in this article? Ebay did acquire this company some time in the late 1990's, and it is still active at half.com and in much the same state as it always has been. Midtempo-abg ( talk) 03:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
I've heard that eBay requires you to use Internet Explorer because of ActiveX controls when you put up an auction (or at least upload pictures). I looked it up, and it's true. Should this be mentioned in the article? Should it be in the Criticism of eBay article?-- Dullstar ( talk) 19:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
No, because it's wrong - I use eBay perfectly happily with Firefox. Lstanley1979 ( talk) 09:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeh thats correct.... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.47.77.241 (
talk)
14:07, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
At least, that's what seems to have happened. According to the IP Addresses Talk page, the ip used is owned by eBay. As I said in my revert, I don't see how the whole section needs to be blanked, since Dutch Auctions were a part of eBay for so long, maybe just updated a bit.
If you are the editor in question, Hello! You may not have realized that your IP identified you as coming from eBay. You may wish to read WP:COI NipokNek ( talk) 06:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
The slogan group in the infobox doesn't look right. Here are two I've come up with...
250px|eBay corporate logo Come to think of it, eBay.
What ever it is, you can get it on eBay. Shop victoriously! From collectibles to cars, buy and sell all kinds of items on eBay Buy it, sell it, love it | |
220px The eBay homepage. | |
Type of business | Public ( Nasdaq: EBAY) |
---|---|
Type of site | Online auction |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | September 3, 1995 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Pierre Omidyar |
Key people |
Pierre Omidyar,
Chairman John Donahoe, CEO Lorrie Norrington, President of eBay Marketplaces |
Industry | Auctions |
Products |
Online auction hosting,
Electronic commerce,
Shopping mall PayPal, Skype, Gumtree, Kijiji, |
Revenue | ![]() |
Operating income | $ 2.075 billion (2008) |
Net income | ![]() |
Total assets | ![]() |
Total equity | - $ 11.083 billion (2008) |
Employees | 15,500 (Q1 2008) |
URL |
www.ebay.com List of domain names |
Registration | Required to buy and sell |
250px|eBay corporate logo Come to think of it, eBay.
| |
220px The eBay homepage. | |
Type of business | Public ( Nasdaq: EBAY) |
---|---|
Type of site | Online auction |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | September 3, 1995 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Pierre Omidyar |
Key people |
Pierre Omidyar,
Chairman John Donahoe, CEO Lorrie Norrington, President of eBay Marketplaces |
Industry | Auctions |
Products |
Online auction hosting,
Electronic commerce,
Shopping mall PayPal, Skype, Gumtree, Kijiji, |
Revenue | ![]() |
Operating income | $ 2.075 billion (2008) |
Net income | ![]() |
Total assets | ![]() |
Total equity | - $ 11.083 billion (2008) |
Employees | 15,500 (Q1 2008) |
URL |
www.ebay.com List of domain names |
Registration | Required to buy and sell |
Any other ideas? ~ ς ح д r خ є ~ 04:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
The "Environmental record" section should be deleted. Lots of businesses are trying to do eco-friendly things these days, and there is no assertion of notability (i.e. world's biggest, world's first etc) in what eBay has done, so there is no reason for it to be in the article. Peter Ballard ( talk) 08:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The website cannot be reached. Furthermore I cannot find any information about ebay.eg. Someone tried to add (now defuncted) as for eBay China comment but that was reverted. 138.246.37.177 ( talk) 18:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
There are too many sites listed here that are unrelated-to-ebay redirects or just unreachable... I don't know how they got here in the first place, but this list needs a big clean-up. Alinor ( talk) 15:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Is the list removal discussed here what has caused the "localized websites" link to stop working? The phrase appears as an html hyperlink but doesn't go anywhere.-- SpacemanSpiff27 ( talk) 19:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MiszaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 30 days and keep at least ten threads.-- Oneiros ( talk) 02:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
There's a problem with the ambiguous wording of these two sentences:
Does this mean the often-repeated story was "confirmed," or confirmed to have been fabricated? rowley ( talk) 19:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
IP editor recently added a paragraph to the Unusual Sale Item section, which I removed. The IP editor disputes my actions and says that as a cited addition it should remain. I would be grateful for other's input. I removed it for the following reasons;
Aside from this one addition, there are a number of related problems with section. The entire section suffers from a fundamental POV weakness in that there is no clear, objective and neutral definition of what counts as 'Unusual'. More than a few of the articles mentioned are also short lived publicity stunts or jokes. There should be a clearer division between eBay as a place selling items with a very unusual or limited market, and eBay as a place to stage a publicity stunt and/or joke. So if these are truly notable, would they not be better in a different section? -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 12:38, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
the last section under unusual items is an obvious act of vandalism; would someone please fix this? Shaminabuddy ( talk) 09:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the prohibited items are listed in the article? It seems out of place? It mention rather odd things for a website article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.137.177.20 ( talk) 09:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
This may be related to what someone was talking about vandalism, but it appears as if someone swapped the profit/loss widget in the reporting column. I am pretty sure that I am reading the source correctly, in that they gained $1.8B in 2010, not lost it.
I am going to go ahead and change it, but please let me know if I am reading this wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Electrostatic1 ( talk • contribs) 00:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm a bit concerned by the apparent random selection in the section. There are now on the order of 2000 books with "eBay" in the title; what's so special and important about these? In what way is, say, eBay for Dummies more worthy of inclusion than any of the other "how to" books? Is this list really necessary at all? -- jpgordon ::==( o ) 19:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I have removed Michael Dean Johnson as a founder of eBay. I am not able to find any information on who this person is other than random websites claiming that he is an eBay founder. There is no information on how he was involved, just that he was. Also, none of the websites were any that I would call credible if writing a research paper. Finally, every credible source I can find only mentions Pierre Omidyar. Kaid ( talk) 08:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
I was surprised to see no mention in this article of the practice of bid sniping. Should there be? — Steve Summit ( talk) 02:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
This page is about a website and also a great company.So, I request a semi-protection for this article. Rsamahamed 15:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsamahamed ( talk • contribs)
It seems like MercadoLibre.com should be mentioned here. eBay is already mentioned in the ML.com article. http://investor.ebay.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=60309 brianfreud 23:30, 19 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianfreud ( talk • contribs)
There's hardly anything written about the feedback system even though it's a significant part of the eBay paradigm. There's a mention of changes, or how things differ from the "overall feedback" but nothing that describes what the "overall feedback" system is.
The whole notion of the feedback system was an essential distinguishing feature of eBay, since a person selling stroller in Peoria to a buyer in Oshkosh needed to know whether to send out the stroller first, or whether the buyer should send a check first. That was especially true before PayPal.
There's also no mention of the shift from the feedback based model to the prepaid/PayPal based model. Although PayPal is not an absolute requirement, there was a back door change to the overall policies when sellers were asked to specify when they are going to ship with respect to when (meaning how long after) they receive payment. Thus its purpose changed to one of a merchant rating system. Hagrinas ( talk) 19:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I've removed the "Further Reading" section on the article. I was unclear what the books listed have to merit having a plug for them on the article. Particularly when many of them appeared to be guides on how to run businesses on eBay, rather than being about eBay itself. If anyone has reasons why these books should be here, happy to hear them. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
The feedback ratings are no longer anonymous. I have an eBay account and I can see who has left me feedback. -- InformationContributor11 ( talk) 22:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
You are more than a bit confused, one could always see who left Feedback. And is not the same as The Rating System which is based on a 5 point scale concerning How Accurate was Description, How Fast was Item Shipped, How Reasonable were Shipping and Handling Fees, etc. is anonymous. 2602:306:CF5B:6C80:7DFF:2257:B79E:7C63 ( talk) 02:15, 16 October 2014 (UTC) Still Doc Ock
Just wondering whether Ebay should be described as a American Company registered in Switzerland as per the footer of official emails from Ebay i.e. eBay International AG Helvetiastrasse 15/17 - P.O. Box 133, 3000 Bern 6, Switzerland ? 203.22.239.98 ( talk) 09:38, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
The article states that the only places where expansion failed were Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand. However Taobao clearly outperformed eBay, despite eBay having a headstart after it acquired EachNet in 2002-03.
The Taobao article states:
"As a result, Taobao became the undisputed market leader in mainland China within two years. Its market share surged from 8% to 59% between 2003 and 2005, while eBay China's plunged from 79% to 36%.[7] Finally, eBay shut down its own site in China in 2006."
eBay's failure in China has become a classic case study in the field of International Business. It should be recognised here.
Here is a Forbes article covering eBay's failure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.149.29.251 ( talk) 05:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I've copied the following from my talk page to this talk page, so that additional editors can also view and comment the discussion. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
I've removed the passage simply because the article is not a WP:SOAPBOX for what someone considers "something bad about Ebay". Its a private (meaning non-government) for-profit website and entitled to police its listing and allow or disallow whatever it chooses. It has a history of shying away from controversial topics, so its not a surprise they removed an item like this. -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... ( talk) 05:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Scalhotrod. This was already accepted by editor Barek so I am confused why you deleted it. I am also confused as this is/was a major controversy, irrespective of whatever ebay allows or doesn't allow. eBay allowed Zimmerman to list his painting, but disallowed another artist listing their painting in response. This is extremely noteworthy and was referenced extensively. Can we have a third wiki editor review this as an impartial adjudicator? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamaze01 ( talk • contribs) 09:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
anyone know of, or what open source model may break Ebay's monopoly ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.3.213 ( talk) 14:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
why is there no info on ebay search tools, or do we just use google to search for things on ebay these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.0.231 ( talk) 11:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I propose merging Criticism of eBay with Ebay to create a more NPOV article. if the article becomes to long we can use topics and content to make subarticles. Bryce Carmony ( talk) 11:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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I've again reverted this addition from the lead, since the contributing editor has declined to do it, or discuss. My problems with this addition twofold;
-- Escape Orbit (Talk) 16:39, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
What's the difference? Ebay's name was always "eBay," which is written differently in text than its logo shows too! Kesha's "logo" was "Ke$ha." What's so "terrible" about having the distinctions for ebay? Is your lead really that "sacred"? What about the band " fun."? Why don't we go and remove all the stylization notes from the leads of all of those that have them, especially if they're just former?
And what about X Clan? And why don't THESE two articles need absolute time references either? Should I go look for some more? There are several more examples I can certainly use if these "aren't good enough" for you for some ridiculous reason!
If, by "refuses to work collaboratively," this combative user really means "refuses to be shut completely out" because he insists on reverting past the middle ground of having only the current stylization mentioned in the lead, which is actually what he and at least two others of you had already been reverting to, instead of just reverting to that again, then yeah, I refuse, of course!
But if, on the other hand, this combative user actually means what he says, then that's a bold-faced lie! I am here talking this out, am I not? I am proposing compromises that don't completely go in one direction or the other, am I not? This is collaboration! So if, amongst all the earlier reversions, you guys were happy to only revert to the way that it was before with the current stylization still mentioned in the lead but not the former one, then why are you so adamant to dig deeper now and eliminate both? What's making you now feel like you MUST go farther than the 2 points that you, including escape orbit, were already happy with before? --Still mobile for now, 2600:100E:B123:2252:1AE6:9744:E0EF:420 ( talk) 07:18, 30 December 2015 (UTC).
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"Refuses to work collaboratively" is actually what you guys are doing, because to you it must be all about what YOU guys want and nothing of what I want, and instead I should just be treated as second-class merely because I'm IP-only. LOL, "start a discussion on the talk page"? So what do you call ^^^ THIS ^^^ then?
Um, I'm talking about reversions that came before that, prodigo. The reversions that came before that are what escape orbit and his little buddy-buddies were already happy with going back to (where "[stylized as 'ebay']" remained) after I added mention of the former style to that part of the lead. So if they were happy with that, then why are you and your buddy-pals stooping to this new low of taking those both out? Is it just a ploy to get me to be happy with just having the article read the same old way as it did with the current style mentioned in the lead but not the new one (in other words, creating some new, worse but fake "bad news" so that the previous lesser, but real, bad news will just seem more acceptable to the receiver)?
And why even ask whether or not this "current" from the infobox should stay or not, since your little preffy-friend escape orbit already took that out as part of being consistent with his little complaint that I had added "currently" to the first mention of style? If you'd like to take him more seriously because he has a user name and he's... well... him, then why did that ever get removed in the first place, and then why was it reverted when you guys knew that I was taking it back out after that?
I get why the wiki community might favor editions from a "high-and-mighty admin," but why does it seem like most of it also bows down to non-admin named editors over IPers too, huh?
And why is it that you consider my reversions as "edit-warring" but you guys' are somehow "not" even though you're just putting the stuff back too? Have you forgotten that one of the rules regarding edit-warring includes "even if you believe you are right"? Well you guys think you are "right" and you keep reverting too. How are you guys supposedly "not" edit-warring too, huh?
I never said that changing my edits was akin to an insult, escape, but just by your saying that you deserve to feel that way about your own.
What you guys are calling "consensus" is actually not, unless you think "let us 3 or 4 guys leave one guy out" rightfully amounts to "consensus." But if you do, then you are actually the fool. I did not consent.
I already did answer your question, but you've chosen to be too ignorant to pay attention to it. Yet you have still not yet managed to answer mine about why, even though you were satisfied before with reverting to "(stylized as 'ebay')" without the former, you aren't even satisfied with that now and want to even use your half-smile buddy to remove even that now.
And why is it that you guys think you have to act like "just because you think something is unimportant then it actively must NOT be used? Since when did passive content require active prohibition?
And you haven't even answered why, even though you were the one who took off "current" from the infobox when you took "currently" from the style mention, one of you went and put "current" back ON the infobox for no good reason, or why when I took it back off, you had one of your little cohort buddies stick that back on even after you already wanted it off! It's like you guys can't make up your mind with that! What the hell is up with you guys? 2600:100E:B12A:E8CD:C519:4540:A829:37CD ( talk) 15:10, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
My name is Jennifer Lowe, and I work at eBay as a Web Content Specialist.
I’m hoping to be of some value in addressing information in the eBay Wikipedia page that may be either outdated or inaccurate.
For example, the paragraph about our 2014 security breach appears to confuse two separate events. In February 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army replaced the homepages for a very limited number of people visiting certain eBay and PayPal pages in the UK, France and India. The issue was quickly detected and resolved, and no customer accounts were affected. Source: [1]
The Syrian Electronic Army attack is separate from the security breach that required a password reset. As currently depicted in the Wikipedia entry, the two events appear to have been merged.
As noted in the existing sources for this paragraph, the security breach in May 2014 was a result of hackers compromising a small number of employee log-in credentials. The hackers did not gain access to financial information and users were forced to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure. Source: [2] and [3]
Based on this, how does this community feel about something like the following?: “In early February 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army replaced the eBay and PayPal homepages for a limited number of people in the UK, France and India. The issue was quickly detected and resolved, and no customer accounts were affected. In a separate event, on May 21, 2014, the company revealed that the consumer database of usernames, passwords, phone numbers, and physical addresses had been breached by hackers who compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials. eBay users were advised to change their passwords; in order to expedite this a "change password" feature was added to profiles of users who had not yet done so. The eBay stock value fell in response to the disclosure.”
Thanks for your consideration. I look forward to joining the conversation. Jennifer Lowe
JenniferKL ( talk) 22:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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I would like to add a line about eBay selling it's craigslist stake and the reference http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-19/ebay-sells-back-28-4-stake-in-craigslist-ending-litigation.
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Could somebody add "(as AuctionWeb)" next to the Start date and age template, so that it says "{Start date and age|1995|9|3} (as AuctionWeb)" to show its original founding name?
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Some of the subsidiaries are missing (see http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com for the classifieds related ones), e.g. Close5 ( http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com/brands-close5.html) which is gaining millions of App Store downloads. A recruiter reached out to me about it and I could not find a mention of it on wikipedia.
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eBay was originally one of many companies with the a x-bay.com address. We had an account with e-bay.com we were told the new address and all e-bay.net accounts will be ebay.com and that you could keep your old account name or change it. We changed ours as the name we had chosen was not something we expected to keep for decades to come and was not quite PG Rated. I am seriously wondering why this is not mentioned in the article as surely it was not a subject that was taken lightly, the -bay.com was a place of commerce, porn, and other very popular websites. 2602:306:CF5B:6C80:7DFF:2257:B79E:7C63 ( talk) 02:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Still Doc Ock
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Hey, Theroadislong, thanks for inviting me to discuss this thing about styling with you. This article, as well as many others with company logos, have had styling indicators on them for months or/and years, and people had been happy with it that way just up until December last year. Sure, it's not necessary, but the again, many things in articles aren't necessary but they help the reader relate. Now if so many other articles have styling indicators that aren't considered to be too cluttery, why should this article not take that same format? 180.149.231.229 ( talk) 13:04, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedians - I drafted a paragraph relating the the impact Beanie Babies had on eBay capturing so much market share in the early days - there are a wealth of references on this topic - if anyone can help me find more and expand on this, I think it would be awesome. The story is very fascinating and is a testament to how one product can have such an impact on innovation ... thanks!
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Please change Jamie Iannone's title from "CEO" to "President and CEO"
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