'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

Post by polytely » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

robotswantdata wrote: post #6

haunter wrote: post #3

Brian 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…

Post by hooch » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

Arainach wrote: post #32

aucisson_masque wrote: post #23

Side 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.

Post by lenerdenator » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:16 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #26

jimnotgym wrote: post #10

Earlier 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.

Post by PunchyHamster » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

alexpotato wrote: post #44

Scott Adams [0], who recently passed away, had a great line on human behavior (paraphrased): Whenever people are unsupervised and there is a chance for fraud or bad behavior and, due to the lack of supervision, they believe they won't be caught, you should ALWAYS assume that people will behave badly. For another example, the Google case where it was exposed how many nefarious activities they were up to around auction…

Post by tempest_ » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

alexpotato wrote: post #46

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wasn't the strategy of Mafia bosses to say something vague like "I sure wish that guy would go away". It was implicit that they wanted someone killed but if brought up in court they could say "I was just expressing an opinion, not giving an order"