This story is bananas. A couple wrote an e-commerce newsletter. eBay execs didn’t like it. Now eBay is settling criminal charges for sending them a torrent of harassment by mail, including live spiders & cockroaches, a bloody pig mask & a funeral wreath. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Online retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over employees who harassed a Massachusetts couple by sending live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items ...
“employees” they were execs!!!
The number of high-level execs that just *went along with this* is just bonkers. And these headlines don't do justice to the level of absolutely unhinged behavior of these people.
Wait, eBay will send you free shit if you say something they don’t like? I gotta get in on this scam.
This wasn’t even the first sellers they’ve settled with for harassment 😖
This NYT story from when it first broke is wild (posting the gift link): www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/t...
“People are basically good” was eBay’s founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate sou...
Only 3 Mill? Read that a few months ago. They need to be punished in a more solid way....
They also sent a book that's about how to deal with becoming a widow so that sounds like a death threat to me
The actual individuals involved have, I believe, been convicted and/or fined already. This was some real fucked up shit, and when we learned about it (we were still in the Bay Area at the time) we were *shocked*.