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Andrew S.eBay deleted the original thread. Here is another on the central seller board. Reportedly, the fake listings were in the millions during the boycott....not just thousands.
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000527614&tstart=0&mod=1204489951151
and another news story on
Auction Bytes:
http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/comments/2008/3/1204379814.html
Fox News, CNN and The Wall Street Journal will be running stories about it Monday morning and the SEC/FTC has been notified also. Wouldn't be surprised to see a class action suit against them. This is basically fraud
since they're a publicly traded company. Purposely reporting false numbers has severe penalties. Our listings were buried under a pile of fake listings that ebay put there. This made it harder for people to find our listings and resulted in a drop in sales for us. They took money from us so we could list our items and then
they buried them with phony listings that competed against us. Bad-faith dealings.
Here is one of many live recorded screenshots on YouTube of the fraud. They listed millions of fake auctions with NARUd user IDs and zero feedback user Ids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mePI-UWDGOE
Ummm....something ain't quite right on eBay. Check out this seller - has been on ebay 10 years with a feedback rating of only 558 - but he currently has 90,721 items listed! Something smells funny and it's not my sneakers.
The seller's 1-800 number belongs to an airline! Wonder how many other "sellers" have 100,000 items listed?
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZcollect2000
Here is a zero feedbacker with 10,000 listings. None of them had any bids:
http://tinyurl.com/37gk2n
New boycott scheduled for May 1 to coincide with the new improved feedback policy. I wonder if Ebay will list a bunch of bogus auctions again?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/66733-ebay-bares-its-ugly-new-face