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EBay’s Survival Lesson
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Online Scammers Have a New Offer for You: Vaccine Cards
SAN FRANCISCO — On Etsy, eBay, Facebook and Twitter, little rectangular slips of paper started showing up for sale in late January. Printed on card stock, they measured 3 by 4 inches and featured crisp […]
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Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
1. Dad stabs a chair Veronica Zea is pretty sure that before showing up to work at eBay in the spring of 2017, she used the site only once. She bought a surfing poster. It […]
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EBay’s Critics Faced an Extreme Case of an Old Silicon Valley Habit
Last summer, members of eBay’s private security team sent live roaches and a bloody pig mask to the home of a suburban Boston couple who published a niche e-commerce newsletter. The harassment campaign, which also […]
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Sorry, eBay and Uber. You’re Hated.
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. It’s practically an inevitability of the digital world: The middleman eventually becomes a villain. You might not […]
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Ex-eBay Workers Sent Critics Live Roaches and a Mask of a Bloody Pig Face, U.S. Says
BOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Six eBay employees mounted a cyberstalking campaign — including sending boxes of live cockroaches and a Halloween mask of a bloody pig’s face — against a couple who ran an online e-commerce […]
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StubHub Sold to Smaller Rival Viagogo for Over $4 Billion
Twenty years ago, when Eric Baker tried to buy a secondhand ticket to “The Lion King” on Broadway, the high prices and hassle of the experience gave him a business idea: What if there were […]