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Why should anyone who's not a Klingon care about "honor"?
A part of living in society is following societal norms.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly stick society" - Krishnamurti
'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
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#32Side note but did anyone here tried to sell stuff on eBay ? Their pricing are insane, they take a cut on your product price, but also on the delivery method and even on the taxes ! It amounts to about 13% of total price, including delivery and taxes. It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it. To put some perspective, here in France we have an extremely profitable competitor called Leboncoin,…
> It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it.
Before that policy, you had a bunch of items listed for $1 + $60 "shipping" to dodge fees. I'll take the current structure over that.
Re: 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
#33Side note but did anyone here tried to sell stuff on eBay ? Their pricing are insane, they take a cut on your product price, but also on the delivery method and even on the taxes ! It amounts to about 13% of total price, including delivery and taxes. It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it. To put some perspective, here in France we have an extremely profitable competitor called Leboncoin,…
> It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it. Before that policy, you had a bunch of items listed for $1 + $60 "shipping" to dodge fees. I'll take the current structure over that.
Stuff is still getting listed like that on ebay.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No consequences for executives, and yet their ostensibly enormous responsibility is how their salaries and benefits are always justified.
What I really don't understand is why the security people who sent to jail didn't drop their boss in it in return for diminishing their role
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#35Side note but did anyone here tried to sell stuff on eBay ? Their pricing are insane, they take a cut on your product price, but also on the delivery method and even on the taxes ! It amounts to about 13% of total price, including delivery and taxes. It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it. To put some perspective, here in France we have an extremely profitable competitor called Leboncoin,…
Too expensive for things you can sell for cash on one of the dumb local marketplaces or on Craigslist.
Super niche stuff you need to be able to advertise to Timbuktu & Japan & LA & NY in hopes of finding a single buyer… fine take your 15%.
Great place to buy new stuff w/o enriching Bezos. Filter Buy It Now + Lowest Price First & hope they’ve fixed the “list a 99 cent cable alongside the $15 widgets you actually want, or price cap + use Best Match.
Re: 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
#36Side note but did anyone here tried to sell stuff on eBay ? Their pricing are insane, they take a cut on your product price, but also on the delivery method and even on the taxes ! It amounts to about 13% of total price, including delivery and taxes. It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it. To put some perspective, here in France we have an extremely profitable competitor called Leboncoin,…
eBay has always nickle and dimed you. I remember a friend saying that in the early 2000s when he ran a big eBay store. He always tried to avoid eBay but you made money easier online than at a flea market or Craigslist which come with their own headaches.
He's much happier doing live auctions on WhatNot these days, which seems to be eating into eBay's business
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#37Brian Gilbert, 56, of San Jose, Calif., former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay’s Global Security Team, was sentenced to time served, one year of supervised release with the special condition that he have no contact with either of the victims in the case and a $20,000 fine Jim Baugh, 47, of San Jose, Calif., eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, was sentenced to 57 months in prison David…
When will the executives face criminal trial too? “ The seven members of eBay’s security team were all criminally charged and sentenced to prison, home confinement or time served. Other executives went on to other corporate jobs. Wymer and Wenig left eBay in September 2019, before the charges were filed. The following year, Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has…
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
No consequences for executives, and yet their ostensibly enormous responsibility is how their salaries and benefits are always justified.
What I really don't understand is why the security people who sent to jail didn't drop their boss in it in return for diminishing their role
Possibly because they hope for gainful employment in future, and being a whistleblower of any variety tends to massively reduce the chances of that.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I really don't understand is why the security people who sent to jail didn't drop their boss in it in return for diminishing their role
There is a chance there wasn’t anything incriminating. The top guys kept conversations live or intimated they wanted something done; the lowers took the planning and execution upon themselves.
Mobsters have it down to an art.
"You take care of it." means "Murder him and dump the body into a building foundation."
"I don't see any problems." can mean "The ambush will happen at the scheduled time. Vinnie will clean up the bodies."
etc.
You'll also see a lot of politicians using "dog whistle" statements, that are interpreted by listeners to mean something entirely different from the stated words.
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And on the other hand, let's see how the C-suite made out: Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board. (These were the Chief Communication Officer, CEO, and SVP for Global Operations, respectively)
> Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley lists its corporate donors as including Alliance Roofing · Amgen Foundation · Applied Materials · ASML · Comcast · Deloitte · EY · First Tech Federal Credit Union · Fremont Bank Foundation · Groundworks · Microsoft · NetApp · Peninsula Building Materials (PBM) · Project Learn / Panda Cares · Rite…
> Whoever was supposed to vet him for hiring should also find a new calling.
I don't think people at that level are really "vetted," these days[0].
[0] https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/on-the-run-for-20-yea...