Browsing: eBay Corporate Blog Posts
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Doc on 05/08/2018
6:12 PM
Site changes have left these two subdomains unlinked from the sites DNS wasting oodles of previous back-links that could bring in sales. Even a hobbyist like Doc knows dead links are a no-no for serious webmasters. 🙄 “Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at search.ebay.com”. C’mon guys.. This is beginning webmaster SEO stuff. […]
Tagged as: eBay SEO, motors.ebay.com, search.ebay.com, seo backlink juice, Wildcard 301 Redirect
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Doc on 05/06/2018
1:24 PM
According to this eBay store owner a Webinterpret promotional link offered assistance reaching buyers in international markets. The seller clicked it to learn what it was about – but claims he did not sign up for the offering. Maybe just clicking the link while being signed into his sellers account opted him in for their […]
Tagged as: Webinterpret Promo Link
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Doc on 04/29/2018
2:01 PM
Make no mistake: eBay (EBAY) is heading for a wipeout in the not-too-distant future. The company’s latest Q1 results reveal a platform that’s struggling to be relevant to users. Poor forward-looking guidance indicates management’s future uncertainty. Published by Seeking Alpha’s Gary Alexander. “eBay shares have lost about 5% since posting disappointing Q1 results. But the […]
Tagged as: eBay Investments, Gary Alexander Seeking Alpha, Investment, Stock Market
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Doc on 02/06/2018
10:48 AM
Last week eBay announced it would be partnering with Adyen for marketplace payments. Doc wonders if PayPal is dumping eBay Inc because of marketplace buyer fraud? Doc has witnessed many consumers who lost large sums of money to PayPal ChargeBacks. Adyen probably has no idea what they are getting involved in leaping into bed with […]
Tagged as: Adyen Payments, PayPal Chargeback, Return Shipping Scam
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Doc on 02/01/2018
8:43 AM
Wonder what’s behind eBay dumping PayPal as it’s major payments processor? It is being reported Dutch company, Adyen will be the new payments processor for marketplace payments. Possibly PayPal is concerned about being a partner in eBay buyer return fraud? We’ve read horror stories about how sleazy eBay buyers are stealing money from eBay sellers […]
Tagged as: Adyen Payments, Buyer Return Fraud
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Doc on 12/12/2017
12:02 PM
Doc became the target of this revenge smear campaign after starting a motor vehicle specific consumer fraud awareness website. He was the 1st Tampa Bay Florida used car dealer to offer automobiles for sale on eBay back in 1999. Things were great back in 1999, but soon afterword scams and fraud started chipping away at […]
Tagged as: Attacks On Critics, eBay Intimidation Tactics, Smear Campaign, Troll Wars, Wrongdoings
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Doc on 10/19/2017
1:56 PM
Back in 1999 Doc started building his reputation as an eBay seller. He offered quality Florida retiree used car trade-ins. eBay provided an exciting new way to sell used cars worldwide and was a huge hit. New markets were created where there were none. He shipped some cars he sold and other delivery’s were what […]
Tagged as: eBay Intimidation Tactics, eBay Motors, eBay Motors Curbstoners, eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection, Make eBay GREAT Again, Used Cars, VPP Curbstoner Exclusion
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Doc on 10/15/2017
7:19 PM
Valuable Motor Vehicle Specific Consumer Fraud Awareness information and good advice deeply buried in Google search index. It’s who you know in corporate America that matters! This article and included narrated screen video is a good example what happened when Doc blogged damaging negative information about eBay INC. We recently published this screen video of […]
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Doc on 02/19/2017
11:22 AM
This long time Motors used car dealer sent a letter to eBay CEO Devin Wenig complaining about low sales on the site. He was told how to sell used cars properly on the website. Back in the beginning it was Trust and Community Values that made selling automobiles work so great on eBay Motors. But […]
Tagged as: Devin Wenig, eBay Car Dealers, Used Cars
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Doc on 12/06/2016
12:13 PM
An occasional seller placed his iPhone 6 up for sale on eBay. As it often happens the buyer filed a Seller Not As Described claim (SNAD) with eBay who froze the funds in his PayPal account. Photo of damaged iPhone 6 eBay buyer sent to seller See the link below to the sellers website for […]
Tagged as: 112178396264, Buyer Return Fraud, Return Shipping Scam, SNAD
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Doc on 10/01/2016
8:37 AM
eBay shoppers are Seeing RED Literally. An Unsafe Content Warning is blocking sellers descriptions, according to eBay community forums. This malware alert is coming from Microsoft Windows 10 and it’s Edge Browser. It’s anyone’s best guess if this is a false positive. eBay is well known for malware alerts. From the selling community forum. It […]
Tagged as: Malware
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Doc on 06/22/2016
9:30 AM
For the second time in close to a year our CloudFlare supplied SSL security certificate was revoked. Like the 1st time, the rat fink targeted CloudFlare who provides our primary transport layer encryption certificate. Fortunately for us, we have backup certs installed on our server and were able to successfully switch to them while CloudFlare […]
Tagged as: eBay Intimidation Tactics, Phishing, SSL Certificate Revoked
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Doc on 05/11/2016
9:40 AM
Another dangerous eBay security vulnerability was recently discovered by researchers. This allows fraudsters using a highly advanced coding technique known as JSfuck, to install malware on unsuspecting members smartphones. We have been observing eBay security vulnerabilities back as far as 2004, examples are Here Here and Here. Why they allow this sloppy security is anyone’s best […]
Tagged as: Cross Site Scripting, Malware, XSS
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Doc on 08/25/2015
10:45 AM
A civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against eBay and PayPal was filed in Federal Court (complaint copy) claiming eBay knowingly and deliberately facilitates, proliferates and profits from the ongoing sale of counterfeit and fake products on its website. From TheCounterfeitReport.com: RICO Allegations in the landmark case identify ongoing practices by the $18 billion e-commerce giant […]
Tagged as: FBI, RICO, SEC
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Doc on 04/25/2015
5:59 PM
Is it possible to Search Engine Optimize an eBay Sellers Listing so it is easily accessible via external Google or Bing organic (free) search? This topic has been been getting some attention lately, as some eBay sellers are concerned why their auctions and buy now listings are not appearing in Google search. eBay sellers item […]
Tagged as: Cassini, eBay Iframe, eBay Investing, SEO