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It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.

There are many. Their feature sets vary a lot.

That's a really odd statement since Stitch's main feature is multi-channel inventory synchronization and Square doesn't do that at all.

Yes it looks like somebody a: copied unencrypted backups to S3 and b: set the s3 bucket to be publicly accessible BIG oops.

Sounds like they pulled a credit check. I got the same kind of questions when I applied for regular merchant (credit card processing) account.

Why is it that people think that they can open a payment account, transfer thousands of dollars into it as their first transaction and no one will ask any questions or be the least…

What utter nonsense.

Agreed. Actually there is a Sivers book, it's called "Anything you want"

Thanks for the clarification Patrick. I was too busy fuming to explain.

Exactly. I can and will be moving elsewhere. My three puny sites can hardly be making their servers tick over the most active only gets ~2000 uniques on a good month.

I switched to the Solaris hosting some time ago as well.

Some people seem to think that they're entitled to hitch a ride on the huge network effect craigslist has acquired through years of patient effort. The folks are shocked,shocked th…

This seems an odd fit to me. Groupon has a reputation for not being concerned whether the deals it encouraged businesses to run are good for the business. FeeFighters has had a rep…

Paypal's destruction of counterfeits policy is intended to combat counterfeiting of designer items. It's application here seems lame-brained to say the least. I'm curious how it go…

Yes, the story has a bit of an urban legend smell about it. Doesn't it?

Many Amazon marketplace sellers use software to automatically adjust the prices of books. The results are sometimes strange.

#faceplant

btw. Elapsed time between opening the support request and an answer from someone at Joyent - 9 minutes... Elapsed time from opening support request to receiving account details for…

I have a lifetime account as well. Joyent's tech support has always been excellent. I take this as a wakeup call to get my stuff off of the old severs beyond that I can see little …

Didn't Facebook kill something like this a few years ago?