Maybe frenetic is a better term? Ebay is hard at it again, making fairly significant site changes, apparently live in realtime from what I’ve seen.  This is truly a[nother] case of ad ridere, or is that ridere ad?

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Listings Changes

The first couple changes are this tab over the image which says n person is [or ‘are’, where n= more than 1] viewing this item per hour.”

(thumbs open for larger view in new tab or window)

There has also been slight variations of the verbiage reported, as noted on the ecommercebytes blog regarding this. I’ve seen at least a couple, among them was a tab which faded out, another which didn’t, and the “X” close button didn’t function.

The other thing is this “More Like This” tab, which stays fixed in place on the side of your browser. As you can see there isn’t any close button for that. These types of things… (more…)

I spotted some controversy breaking out on twitter. It seems that sleazebaY is haphazardly placing various sponsors’ ads in porn or porn related auction item listings. The companies who’s ads were placed in the porn listings include Target, Verizon Fios, Capital One, and even Disney.

The listings seem to have been pulled (along with the advertisements therein) but I’m pretty sure they weren’t even in the adult section. The one you see here was the tamest of them all.  You can see the other ones shown have the theme of gang rape and violence.

It looks as if the person has been able to catch the attention of some of the companies. Which is a good thing.

Ebay has no regard for their users, nor for their advertising sponsors.

(Who’s ads really have no justifiable place in the sellers’ listings to begin with btw)

Individuals, advertisers, and yes, even investors with a moral compass don’t conduct business with ebaY. This is just one tiny reason why.

Scroll down or click the main page of this blog to see even more reasons to avoid ebay and paypal like the plague.

Meg Whitman Is No Einstein

by: GoodByeEbay

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