March 26, 2013

Russia put up for Sale on Ebay

Posted by G under ebay, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |
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I happened to see this in ebay news search results, however by the time I did, ebaY had pulled the listing.

Since the article at themoscowtimes.com didn’t include an image I thought I would share this,  retrieved from google’s cache. The original article states 53 bids to the amount of $100,000. Here it shows 37 bids and to $14,980.00

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ebay listing country Russia item # 121086344712

The listing description read:

Russia (from the Greek. Ρωσία – Russ , officially the Russian Federation or Russia , in practice a reduction of the RF) – a country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The population in 2012 is 143 million people, the area – 17,098,246 km ² . Ranked first in the world in area and ninth largest in terms of population.

This is right up there with the infamous Golden Gate Bridge auction. Ebay has become the laughingstock of the world. Let us rejoice in this knowledge, comrades.

Hey Russia, are you reading? On behalf of the United States, we’ll give you ebaY for free! But you have to haul it away yourself, and it’s not housebroken. ;p

 

October 29, 2012

News Search Blackout of ecommercebytes.com?

Posted by G under censorship, ebay | Tags: , , , , |
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I was reading this blog post at ecommercebytes, which is pretty critical of ebaY and some of the recent cosmetic foo-foo site changes, along with the Cassini search engine fail fiasco and other glaring issues.

In the readers’ comments it is mentioned that the article headline/link had at first shown and was then dropped from news search, so I decided to run a quick search myself. I found the very same result. Even when searching by exact title and within the time range of one week. I also started with broader terms; ebaY style etc.

The Bing News results screencapture:

I just find that very odd and felt it was worth sharing. I’m not sure how many (if any) valid or legitimate reasons there could be for that other than purposeful censorship/blackout?

I found and commented about the same lack of news search results back when ecommercebytes published a post regarding a settlement of a Paypal money holds  lawsuit.

 

December 9, 2010

Wikileaks keeps on publishing despite arrest

Posted by G under Boycott, comedy, cover-up, Free Speech, hack, paypal, wikileaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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by: NMAWorldEdition

http://www.nma.tv/

Julian Assange through his Wikileaks website promises greater government transparency. But his document dumps have angered officials around the world.

US Senator Joseph Lieberman has pressured internet companies to withdraw their services from Wikileaks. Rather than protect internet freedom, Amazon and PayPal have willingly complied with US demands.

Assange is the subject of death threats. Some government officials say he should be assassinated. Sarah Palin said he should be hunted down like a terrorist.

Efforts to take down Wikileaks have proven futile, thanks to mirror sites.

Meanwhile, Assange has been arrested in the UK on rape charges. He has vowed to release more documents in a ‘nuclear’ option if arrested or killed.

 

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