It’s 03/05/2007 And eBay Is Under Hacker/Scammer Attack Again!

In The Medved Charts Below You Can See How Long This Has Been Going On.

Note The Number In MILLIONS Of Auctions That Are Indexed And Then Removed!

Note The Weekends, Indicated By The Gray Shaded Area. Also Note They Are Not Removed During This Time! eBay Must Not Have The Staff On Duty To Pull Them During This Time!

This Is Today’s Chart Showing The Spikes With Listings Being Indexed And Removed, Only To Be Added Again! Note The Count Is In MILLIONS! Averaging 15,000,000 Listings Being Added And Removed Every Few Hours! You Can Access The Medved Site Here.

I Suspect *IF* eBay Could Stop This Assault, They Would Have Done So By Now! It Is Costing eBay And Those Sellers That Are Having Their Auctions Hacked Mega Bucks!!

In The Screen Shots Below, I Watched As These Listings Increased Every Time I Refreshed My Browser! Shown In Reverse Order. The Scammers Are Hacking Just About Every Category From Vehicles To I-pods! I Noticed USA And UK Listings Vandalized, But There May Have Been More Countries Involved!

This Is Without A Doubt An Economic Terrorism Attack On eBay CLICK HERE FOR MORE!

Californians, Be sure you have reviewed ALL THE FACTS Before heading to the polls in November.

It’s Another Weekend On eBay, And The Scammers Are In High Gear!

And This Is eBay’s CEO Meg Whitman..

She Must Be Jesting How Wide The Security Hole In eBay’s Network Is!

Anyway This Brings Me To The Point Of This Nights Posting. I Hear She Is So Cheap, She Showed Up At A Top CEO’s Convention In A Rented Ford Taurus! Geeeezzzzz.. Spend 10.00 More And At Least Get A Crappillac Or A Lincoln.. But A Taurus!!!

And She Apparently Runs eBay The Same Way! As I Reported Last Week, A 2006 BMW Mini That Had Ran 29 Hours Before Being Shut Down! There Was NOBODY Minding The Store! And It Appears This Weekend Is Starting Out The Same! Your CEO Is Apparently Too Cheap To Hire Weekend Staffers To Police The Site!

Here Is One Scam Seller (Obviously A Hijacked Account) That Has 5756 Auctions Running! There Has Been Talk About This On eBay’s Trust And Safety Board, The Scammer Has Been Reported, But Just Keeps On Going! AND As I Also Reported Last Weekend, eBay has Removed The Marketplace Safety Tips From The Listing Pages! So With A Whole Free Weekend, Courtesy Of Meg Whitman, The Scammers Will Make A Bundle Off Of eBay Newbie’s Who Just Don’t Know Any Better!! eBay Is AS-IS.. Use At Your Own Risk!!

Updated 03/17/2007: eBay Removed This Scammers Listings, AND Removed The Above Thread From Their Discussion Board! There Is A Screen Shot Of It Below.. They Spend More Time Spying On What I Am Writing About, Than Policing Their Own Website! Can You Digg It??

California Voters, Is this how you want your government operated?  Be sure you have ALL THE FACTS before heading to the polls in November.

The Scammers Are Busy As Usual Pillaging The Naive!  This Scam Has All The Usual Scam Warnings All Over It, But eBay Members Continue To Bid On It, And The Scammer Is Cancelling Their Bids Telling The Bidders To Email Him!

The Below eBay Motors Discussion Board Thread Is Interesting! The Cars True Owner Said He Has Tried To Report It, But Is Getting The Run Around From eBay! Boy Don’t This Sound Familiar!!

The Apparent Fact Is, Meg Has Nobody Minding The Store On Weekends!! Giving The Scammers A Free Run Of Her Marketplace!

Updated 06/17/2007 10:54PM EST, This Scam Is Still Going! Sometime After Midnight PST When eBay Staffers Come To Work It Will Eventually Get Pulled!

Updated 06/18/2007 07:15AM EST, I Am Waking Up Having My Morning Cup Of Coffee, And What Do You Know, It’s Still There! This Is The First Time A Weekend Scam Car Has Not Been Pulled By eBay During The First Night Of Business! There Must Be A TON Of Scam Reports To Follow Up On!

Updated 06/18/2007 9:50PM EST, Dang!! It’s Still Scamming!! Is eBay’s Staff So Incompetent They Can’t See This Is A Scam?? Duuuu.. I’ll Take All Of Them In The World In This Condition For $5800.00!  The Way This Scam Scam Is Going, I Wouldn’t Be Surprised If It Ends On Its Own!

Updated 06/19/2007 9:05AM EST, It’s Still Running.. The Energizer Bunny Can’t Keep Up With This Listing! How Many eBay MBA’s Does It Take To Change That Burned Out Light Bulb??

Updated 06/19/2007 2:30PM EST, 6 Hours To Go.. Looks Like It Will Close On It’s Own, And Then Be Available By Completed Item Search!

Updated 06/19/2007 9:35PM EST, eBay Finally Pulled This Scam Listing! Note The Below Screen Capture Does Not Display The Usual Invalid Item Warning Page, Just 0 Items Found For That Item Number.. But Does Display A Huge Banner Ad For Monster.com, That eBay Is Getting Paid To Display!

READ THE REST FROM SCREEN CAPTURES IN OUR EBAY MOTORS SCAM ARCHIVE!

California Voters, Is this the way you want your government operated? Just be sure you have ALL THE FACTS before heading to the polls in November.

Three years ago, after a preparation session for a Reuters interview, eBay CEO Meg Whitman (now the Republican nominee for governor of California), apparently snapped.

Specifically, she allegedly shoved her PR person Young Mi Kim in frustration–hard enough that Meg later paid Young Mi $200,000 to make the matter go away. (Meg’s description of the episode, according to the New York Times, was “physically guided from the room.”)

What could possibly have been so frustrating about the interview preparation that it would cause Meg to snap?  That’s a question that California voters are probably justified in asking, especially since being Governor would likely lead to situations that are a lot more tense than routine interview preparation.

Californians, Be sure you have reviewed all the facts before heading to the polls in November.

Over 1900 Pages & Screen Captures

The Mother Load Of eBay Scams

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The above is the master sitemap of www.ebaymotorssucks.com when Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay.

Meg claims that eBay was never hacked – and that fraud was just a tiny fraction of 1% site wide. But if you spend some time and go through the many many pages of site content, along with many screen captures dating back to 2003, It’s hard to believe ALL This was going on right under Meg Whitman’s nose and she had no knowledge of it!

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Back several years ago there were message board pumpers / stalkers that just plain wreaked havoc on anyone that posted something negative about eBay. One such board was the Yahoo eBay Finance discussion board where some pumpers even admitted they worked for eBay and were cleansing the board of the filth that were discrediting eBay and making Meg look bad.

eBay Paid Pumpers / Stalkers Admitting They Worked For eBay

eBay Paid Pumpers / Stalkers Admitting They Worked For eBay

The alleged ringleader of this bunch was Johnnie Osborn – AKA The Tool Fool Z50COM. He has went through 1000′s of Yahoo ID’s all beginning with ebay_xxxx.  Johnnie still posts his usual “Good Morning Fellow eBayers” posts each day, though that board has calmed down quite a bit this year. There is still the character who plays “ElikeEbay” all under various ID’s of course. And Johnnie has his home up for sale.

Johnnie Osborn The eBay Tool Fools Home Is Up For Sale

It must be hard to make a $2106.00 Mortgage payment on the income from eBay sales of used tools.

Business Must Be Bad Selling On eBay These Days!

Was this home bought by eBay Black Budget funds? Were those pumpers / stalkers paid by eBay to harass others who posted negative thoughts about eBay? I guess we will never know. And i doubt Johnnie will be talking any time soon.

This is all just hearsay and speculation, but it’s something to think about for sure!

PLAY THE WALL STREET WHITMAN GAME HERE!

Spend a little time reading through Meg Whitman’s 691-page campaign finance doorstop report and you will understand why Jerry Brown is, as one of his friends put it Monday, “completely freaked out” about how much money is being spent against him. And why he has tried to get every Democratic consultant in the western hemisphere (and a couple of Republicans, too) to work for him for free. READ MORE HERE! MORE TIDBITS HERE AND HERE

I’m glad i don’t live in California! LOL!

But after reading Shawn’s blog post, the “eBay Black Budget” got my curiosity going.  In the years that Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay there were blogs and discussion groups that were said to have eBay Pumpers who discredited anyone’s negative postings about eBay. One such site is the Yahoo! eBay Finance discussion board. where eBay pumpers were especially vicious and would go as far as to stalk other posters and mimic their user id and post as if they were that person.

Here is an interesting snippet from that post.

eBay Live! – June 2006
The top affiliates get invited to an eBay affiliate conference that takes place during eBay Live! each year. The conference was in Las Vegas this year and eBay affiliate program managers (along with some other eBay executives) invited me to a “secret meeting/dinner” where I was the only non-eBay employee invited. We had dinner at Mix, a swanky restaurant at THE Hotel.

Who cares, about a private dinner, right? Normally yes, until you get into what the topic of discussion at this dinner was. This dinner meeting had two main topics… 1. How can I drive more traffic to eBay (always the topic with eBay) as well as something far more interesting.

The Black Budget
One topic that was discussed was eBay secret “black budget”. This was described as a large allotment of money that eBay was free to do what they wanted with, without it being reported on accounting sheets (and in turn shareholders). eBay wanted me to REALLY ramp up spamming the web with eBay ads. I told them I wasn’t interested at ALL and in fact still wanted to quit the program completely, not “ramp it up”. I explained to them that Google was pretty good to me as far as sending me traffic and that I had no interest in spamming Google search results. Then they offered to buy any hardware I wanted with their black budget and get it co-located offshore if I wanted so that no one could trace the spamming back to me or digitalpoint.com. I still told them I wasn’t interested.

Yeah, no. eBay asking me to engage in cyber-terrorism against Google… thanks, but no thanks. I’m not going down that road.

After I made it blatantly clear that I was not interested in “hurting Google” for any price the topic turned back to how I could drive more traffic to the affiliate program. I told them that I really didn’t think there was a way I could drive more traffic. They questioned me about any of the “gray area” stuff I experimented with in the previous summer and if there anything in there that could drive traffic. I told them that it was *possible* to add additional traffic, but the only traffic they could get from that would be non-compliant. Their response was, “As long as you don’t show up on compliance reports, it’s compliant as far as we are concerned.”

You can read the rest HERE. If that post is pulled i made a screen grab of it.

But it seems that this is just the icing on the cake of eBay’s dark side while it was being managed by Meg Whitman. Just be sure that you take all things into consideration before heading to the polls.

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