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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…
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Whatever Happened To eBay Trust And Community Values? It’s our opinion all that matters to eBay Inc is their sellers fees! We have blogged about this eBay Motors car dealer seller twice before. The seller is alleged to be have been suspended (NARU in eBay speak) but comes back again and again and again. And…
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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…
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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…
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Has John Donahoe Earned His Huge Paycheck As CEO Of eBay Inc? And does he deserve that humongous $23 Million Golden Handshake when leaving the eBay Marketplace? Lots of small perfectly good sellers who were suspended during John Donahoe’s big push to court name brands most likely don’t think so. How many small perfectly good…
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Looks like eBay is testing another change to their marketplace To view an items description a buyer must click a button located where the description text or html is normally located. The description with any additional images or html code then pops up in a jquery fancybox. If you didn’t know it. eBay sellers descriptions…
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The Silicone Valley “Good Ole Boy Club” must be severely ButtHurt. Two of Doc’s social networks are showing they are blocked by a robots.txt file. Doc’s Facebook page and YouTube channel is being blocked by a robots.txt exclusion file when performing an android device Google search. 🙁 We could possibly understand being blocked if we…
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Recently i had discovered the Official Facebook page for eBay Motors had been merged with their one size fits all eBay core site page The eBay Motors Facebook page was then apparently deleted because it was not found by searching Facebook for it. I had published this documentary video titled “The Rise And Fall Of…
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Video documentary about how corporate short term gains and massive concealed auction fraud killed eBay Motors. The most trustworthy vehicle trading venue ever conceived on the Internet! eBay Motors original concept was to sell and complete your car sale on the motors website. It was a suspendable offense to lure a buyer off the motors…
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Back in 2009 when GM emerged from bankruptcy they struck up a deal with eBay Inc to sell new GM cars on eBay Motors and YourGmDealer eBay Motors Sellers Account was born. During this period GM worked the leads and pretty much ignored the listings running on eBay Motors with disastrous results. Bait and Switch,…
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Maybe in this scenario eBay CEO John Donahoe’s apparent transparency is not a good thing. Since the eBay Inc announcement of a massive data breach a seller has turned up on Pastebin (a notorious site used for posting anonymously that is often used by hacktivists dumping data from hacks) offering a full copy of the…
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I was browsing the net last night and came across this article written by Davey Winder of itpro.co.uk The article blasts eBay Inc for the way they bumbled their response to the breach. Not counting the 60 days their database was breached that nobody in the company had a clue eBay had been hacked. Actually…
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Had some severely degraded server performance that started Saturday around noon. “Images that normally loaded lightning fast were loading at what looked like an old 300 baud modem speed. Trying to download a recent backup file was impossible as it was so slow it timed out.” Come Sunday it was still degraded. So i put…
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eBay Motors forum was once very popular. The combined knowledge of all the forum participants in their respective automotive fields, could never be found anywhere else in the world. It was a success story within itself. This forum was a regular hangout where folks greeted each other daily. eBay members with vehicle related questions got…
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Do you have an unused (dormant) eBay account? As this person found out the hard way, someone can hack your account and run up a huge tab in fees. Plus the act holder will be legally responsible for any Buyer Protection claims paid out! 😥 Scammers first hijack an eBay account then immediately change its…
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I was browsing a Google search query for “Scam eBay Wire Transfer” and came across this eBay Guide on the subject. Only problem was, clicking the link brought me to eBay guides home page. eBay had deleted this particular guide from it’s system. If you are using Google to search the web, to the right…
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It has been known for at least a month that Liveworld lost their contract to provide eBay with forums and moderation services. The forums were always hosted on an eBay sub domain at forums.ebay.com with that sub-domain routed to liveworld’s servers where the boards were fiscally located. Apparently someone pulled the plug on liveworld’s end…
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The net is buzzing about this about eBay forum provider LiveWorld getting the bums rush. It apparently was reported on ecommercebytes.com yesterday and has spread like wildfire to other sites and forums. Over the years, there have been numerous reports that LiveWorld heavily censored the boards, with some unhappy users accusing the company of spreading…
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In this video we feature a 2010 Audi A5 Convertible for only $13,500 up for auction by 01woods01 who joined eBay just yesterday We also compare the differences in fraud reporting between eBay Motors and AutoTrader.com, cars.com is similarly easy to report a fraudulent listing. “Auto Trader and Cars.com both put their report fraud link…
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Community Values and Trust made selling vehicles work so well on eBay back in the beginning, but has since then faded into distrust. We start today’s article and video with a thread on eBay Motors Forum where a buyer sent $25,500 to a seller for this 1981 Phillips Berlina Coupe (171004703535). The buyer claims the…
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