You thought PayPal was bad? eBay security team harassed and cyberstalked a newletter-writing couple because they were critical of the company

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eBay CEO Meg Whitman ran for Gov of California. People loved their shit

I never bid on an auction in my life with the exception of tickets to events back when buying physical tickets and having the time to have them mailed was a thing. Even then, I usually looked for the best Buy It now option. I’m not an extravagant person, but I’m a seat snob. I don’t want to go to anything if I’m not in first row behind dugout or front 3 rows for concert. I’m at maybe 5-10 of either in a year, and why bother?


It becomes I’d rather watch a sporting event on tv thing. Football is exception where anywhere high 20-20 gives better view of action, but NFL games are poor experience in general. People who can’t hold their alcohol drinking excessively and obnoxious barfing in the aisles and picking on some opposing fan

I have to think the rise of stubhub and seat geek and the myriad of other sites where people can sell their instant download tickets for any event put a dent into a pretty large segment of their business. I haven’t opened the site in probably close to a decade.

Same here on almost all accounts. Definitely havent used ebay in like 15 years. Back when it was new though, it was pretty sweet. Only place I could find random band t-shirts around the turn of the century.

And yeah, I only really enjoy going to MLB live anymore, as far as cost/enjoyment ratio. The Vikings played in Seattle a couple years recently, and the ticket prices for a halfway decent seat.....I'd rather spend that money on a plane ticket + room in Vegas and watch the game on TV there. Vegas would have been cheaper.

NFL live is really becoming a rich man/poor man thing. Old Carolla bit about how an odd number of things are only applicable to rich or poor and not the middle, like "if you have an outdoor shower". Last few NFL games I went to felt like that. Gotta be rich to afford the lower seats/boxes, and the cheaper seats are filled by drunken hooligans who maxed out their only credit card to go to the game.