Former eBay employees harassed couple who wrote critical newsletter articles, prosecu

[Rob in KS]

Came across this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/fo...o-wrote-critical-newsletter-articles-n1231075

 

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[1637]

i saw this early today,thats some crazy stuff.i hope they get allot of money from e- bay.
brad

 

[kingskid1611]

I wonder if this is the first incidence or are there lots of others.....

 

[Keppy]

Ebay has went to hell it was really a good place when it first started.

 

[Indigo Knight]

This is incredibly disturbing news. Truly despicable and unprofessional conduct.

The site by the way is https://www.ecommercebytes.com/ It's a great news source for eBay, Amazon, and Etsy updates as well as other important news for online sellers. It's true that many, if not most of the articles are critical of eBay but what really makes eBay look bad is the commentary on the articles by the site users, many who are current or ex-eBay sellers. eBay's own forums used to be full of this vitriol daily but eBay censors a lot of posts now so the real commentary on the state of the selling platform has migrated off-site.

I wonder if this is the first incidence or are there lots of others.....

It makes you wonder, doesn't it? If poor and inept management of the company is any indication, this behavior by the employees is symptomatic of a toxic workplace culture, or at least one that is highly dysfunctional. Devin "Devil" Wenig's golden parachute departure as CEO is certainly suspicious. Just when you thought eBay couldn't have a worse CEO than John "The Ho" Donahoe.

It really makes me sad that what used to be a great company and very American innovation has sunk to an all time low. Do they focus on improving their core business? No. Do they hire people to help fix multiple problems with the 20-year old back-end of critical site features? No. Do they hire a competent CEO with actual experience working in online retail? No. Do they listen to their core customers (sellers)? No.

Instead, it appears upper management launched a campaign of illegal and immoral harassment against a couple exercising their first ammendment rights. Talk about a waste of resources.

 

[malenkai]

There is a long article in today's Wall Street Journal on this story. It is unbelievable what eBay was alleged to have done to these people. I will quote a couple of paragraphs from the article --

"Then, last August, the couple started receiving threatening e-mails and tweets. Not long after, according to federal investigators, a package arrived with a mask of a bloody pig's head. Next, they received a funeral wreath. Neighbors were sent pornographic videos addressed to [the couple]. Strange cars seemed to follow them around their small town of Natick, Mass".

"Now, the US attorney's office is investigating whether eBay targeted any other critics with harassment campaigns, according to a person familiar with the investigation"

"When Mr. Wenig was pushed out as CEO in late September, the directors said the main reasons were [...]. [This] investigation also played a role, and directors blamed him for setting a cutthroat tone at the top. Mr. Wenig received a $57 million dollar exit package"

Good work if you can get it, I suppose.