| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.08.2026 | eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To ‘Crush’ A Journalist | For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by the rich and powerful. And sometimes we’ve been on the receiving end of such attacks ourselves. But I have never seen or heard of anything quite ... |
| 03.08.2026 | eBay Cyberstalking Settlement: A Precedent for Corporate Accountability | A landmark settlement concludes years of cyberstalking litigation. eBay will pay nearly $50 million to journalists David and Ina Steiner. Former executives contribute millions. $7 million goes to charity. The agreement includes no confident... |
| 28.07.2026 | eBay agrees to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM
BOSTON (AP) — eBay Inc. agreed to pay almost $50 million to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliv... |
| 28.07.2026 | Scalli Murphy Law Announces Landmark Resolution in eBay Cyberstalking Litigation | Historic civil rights settlement includes $55.7 million in compensation and charitable commitments - including personal financial contributions from former eBay executives, a public statement by eBay, and no confidentiality restrictions.
EV... |
| 02.03.2026 | eBay Reshapes Future: Strategic Layoffs Fuel AI Drive and Depop Growth | eBay is undergoing a significant strategic transformation. The e-commerce giant cut 800 jobs, 6% of its workforce, aligning its structure with key priorities. This move follows substantial investment in AI technology and a pivotal $1.2 bill... |
| 26.02.2026 | EBay laying off about 800 roles, or 6% of its workforce | EBay said it’s laying off about 800 employees, or 6% of its workforce.
The job cuts are occurring across the company, and are a result of its push to focus on “strategic priorities,” eBay said.
The online marketplace has been investing heav... |
| 11.01.2024 | eBay to Pay $3 Million in Cyberstalking Settlement, Resolving Former Executives' Harassment Campaign | Inno Flores, Tech Times 11 January 2024, 08:01 pm |
| 11.01.2024 | eBay to pay $3 million after couple became the target of harassment, stalking | E-commerce giant eBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty in connection with the harassment and stalking of a Massachusetts couple, acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said Thursday.
The couple, Ina and David Steiner, had been subjecte... |
| 03.02.2023 | This package shipped from Mississippi to Michigan — via Puerto Rico. Here's why some shipments go on circuitous journeys. | Out of the roughly 59 million packages shipped every day in the US, an estimated 150,000 go astray. Alistair Berg/Getty Images
Packages end up in the wrong place sometimes but usually make it to their destination. Extra transit days add fru... |
| 24.11.2022 | Black Friday: Watch out for shorter return windows and restocking fees | Shoppers may be eager to find the best deals on Black Friday, but in doing so they could overlook an area where they may get dinged: Product returns.
Six of 10 retailers are changing their returns policies this holiday season, according to ... |
| 02.10.2022 | Facebook Marketplace's New Feature Will Limit Dealership’s Ability to List Cars | April Fowell, Tech Times 02 October 2022, 09:10 pm
Facebook is changing things around Marketplace that will impact car dealerships today, as reported by The Verge. The update was first spotted by a Reddit user, Meta announced that it will m... |
| 29.09.2022 | Ex-eBay execs get prison time for sending live spiders to couple in bizarre harassment scheme | A former eBay executive was sentenced on Thursday to almost five years in prison for leading a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included sending live spiders, cockroaches, a funeral wreath and other disturbing d... |
| 19.09.2022 | eBay execs terrorized bloggers with live cockroaches, porn: lawsuit | More On: ebay
Teabag ‘used’ by Queen Elizabeth selling for $12K on eBay after death Bidders smashes bid record for charity lunch with Warren Buffett Johnny Depp, Amber Heard trial notebook sells for $15K, wristbands now on eBay for $5K I ac... |
| 17.05.2022 | Former eBay Exec Last To Plead Guilty To Bizarre Pig Fetus Journalist Harassment Campaign | Several years ago you might recall that a bunch of eBay executives were busted waging a bizarre harassment campaign against a blogging couple who had been critical of the company. |
| 21.03.2022 | ‘Sellers have a much bigger reach’: How eBay plans to stand out in luxury resale | Is the condition the same as it was listed? If the listing said “original Rolex box and Rolex warranty papers,” is it actually going to come with it? When you spend $5,000 [or] $10,000 on any of these luxury items in any of these categories... |
| 21.03.2022 | ‘Sellers have a much bigger reach’: How eBay plans to stand out in luxury resale | EBay is focusing on luxury resellers and buyers with new authentication services and a product storage vault.
In eBay’s fourth-quarter 2021 earning report in February, the company announced double-digit U.S. sales growth in luxury handbags ... |
| 25.01.2022 | eBay will now authenticate trading cards worth $750 or more | Online marketplace eBay is once again expanding its authentication service, this time to include support for authenticating valuable trading cards. The service will now be able to authenticate cards worth at least $750 from collectible card... |
| 13.10.2021 | Amazon and Walmart are duking it out over streaming merch | Relying on third-party sellers has largely been Amazon’s strategy, but it’s not clear yet whether Walmart will move away from third-party merch in the wake of its Netflix deal. Walmart said in its announcement that it would rely on “Walmart... |
| 16.09.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Amazon’s newest product is customer service | Customer Service by Amazon will focus largely on issues that arise during the shipping and return process, not on actual product-related questions. It allows for customer support in multiple languages, which might appeal to people who have ... |
| 16.09.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Amazon’s newest product is customer service | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
As the upcoming holiday season strains third-party sellers,... |
| 24.08.2021 | How online marketplaces are leading the trading card boom | Across the internet, trading card marketplaces are shattering sales records.
The boom spans all sectors of the trading card economy, from sports cards to trading card games, from new packs to single cards at resale. In February, eBay report... |
| 24.08.2021 | How online marketplaces are leading the trading card boom | That’s in part because Amazon is not setup to verify the authenticity of cards. When buying from Amazon, customers put their trust in the seller on the price and the accuracy of the description. In March, in a bid to make itself more attrac... |
| 10.08.2021 | Amazon says it will now compensate consumers for defective products sold on its marketplace | Amazon today is making a significant change to its returns policy, known as the A-to-Z guarantee, to address issues with defective products sold through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. In the past, Amazon directed consumers to ... |
| 29.07.2021 | Exec That Tried To Send Critical Reporters A Dead Pig Blames 'The Drinking Culture At eBay' | Last year, you might recall how a group of eBay executives were arrested for a truly bizarre (an understatement) stalking and harassment campaign aimed at critical reporters. Angry at the critical coverage of eBay by a small news site (Ecom... |
| 22.07.2021 | eBay, Executives Slammed With Lawsuit Over Alleged Death, Stalking and Torture Threats Against Couple | July 22, 2021 3 min read
eBay and a number of its former executives are being sued by a Massachusetts couple who allege the company, along with Progressive F.O.R.C.E. Concepts, LLC, “engaged in a coordinated effort to intimidate, threaten t... |
| 21.07.2021 | Couple harassed by former eBay employees sues company and former executives | A Massachusetts couple subjected to threats, mailed packages and other bizarre harassment from former employees of eBay filed a lawsuit against the company, its former employees and former CEO Devin Wenig on Wednesday.
David and Ina Steiner... |
| 15.07.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Amazon takes a step closer to UPS | MCF is not without its controversy. Walmart and eBay both ban their sellers from fulfilling orders through MCF — Walmart, at least, is trying to push sellers to use Walmart Fulfillment Services instead. Shopify currently allows businesses w... |
| 13.05.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Private-label products are winning search results | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Private-label products are dominating search results on Ama... |
| 13.05.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Private-label products are winning search results | Whereas in a store, Black said, customers can easily see dozens of other products even if, say, Walmart’s private-label brands get good placement on a shelf, in e-commerce, shoppers probably won’t look beyond the top search results. “This i... |
| 08.04.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Lawyers are helping brands crack down on Amazon sellers | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Law firms are offering brands a new way to crack down on un... |
| 08.04.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Lawyers are helping brands crack down on Amazon sellers | Amazon lets brands crack down on counterfeit items, but when it comes to outsiders selling legitimate products purchased wholesale, Amazon has taken a hands-off approach — in part because consumers do have some legal rights to resell produc... |
| 01.04.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Amazon’s employee influencers present a new retail frontier | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Amazon is deploying some of its workers to fight back again... |
| 01.04.2021 | Amazon Briefing: Amazon’s employee influencers present a new retail frontier | Employee influencers themselves are not new in retail. Dunkin’ has recruited select workers to post behind-the-scenes videos of their jobs, in the hopes of broadcasting positive images of work at the company. Walmart has done the same. Its ... |
| 20.11.2020 | Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans | U.S.-based startup Neatsy AI is using the iPhone’s depth-sensing FaceID selfie camera as a foot scanner to capture 3D models for predicting a comfortable sneaker fit.
Its app, currently soft launched for iOS but due to launch officially nex... |
| 17.08.2020 | 6 Predictions For Back-To-School Spending, And How Staples, Walmart And Others Act | Let’s Hope Retailers Have Ordered A Lot Of Erasers |
| 16.06.2020 | eBay Execs Thought Sending Dead Pigs, Live Spiders To Small News Website Was A Good Idea | Pop quiz: a couple publishes a relatively small news website critical of your massive and hugely profitable corporation. |
| 16.06.2020 | eBay Execs Thought Sending Dead Pigs, Live Spiders To Small News Website Was A Good Idea | Pop quiz: a couple publishes a relatively small news website critical of your massive and hugely profitable corporation. |
| 15.06.2020 | How Amazon Plans To Save, Not Ruin, The $520B Fashion Industry Post Coronavirus | An employee poses for a photograph at Amazon.com Inc.'s new fashion photography studio in the ... [+] Shoreditch district of London, U.K. in this arranged photograph, on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Amazon reported a surprise second-quarter pro... |
| 30.12.2019 | Amazon Sets Deadline for Sellers to Update Ads by January 13 | Olive Marie, Tech Times 30 December 2019, 05:12 am
(Photo : Photo by Fernando Amaro on Flickr)
Sellers of Amazon have until January 13, 2020, to make modifications to Advertising Promotions in offering free shipping promos in their advertis... |
| 24.07.2019 | eBay takes on Amazon with Managed Delivery, a fulfillment service for U.S. sellers | eBay has announced its latest initiative to take on the mighty Amazon. The ecommerce giant today announced Managed Delivery, a fulfillment service that it’s lining up to launch in the U.S. in 2020.
While eBay has served as a marketplace mat... |
| 24.07.2019 | eBay takes on Amazon with Managed Delivery, a fulfillment service for U.S. sellers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
eBay has announced its latest initiative to take on the mighty Amazon. The ecommerce giant today announced Managed Delivery, a fulfillm... |
| 12.07.2019 | As marketplaces compete with Amazon on shipping, sellers are shouldering the burden | “I think the initial reaction from a lot of sellers is they feel like that burden is going to fall solely on them,” said Lipsman. Etsy senior vice president of product Kruti Patel Goyal said in a statement that “we realize that offering fre... |
| 12.07.2019 | As marketplaces compete with Amazon on shipping, sellers are shouldering the burden | As Amazon continues to set shipping expectations, competing marketplaces and platforms are racing to ensure their sellers don’t fall behind.
This week, Etsy became the latest marketplace to bet its future on free shipping, with an announcem... |
| 23.05.2018 | Is Amazon The Right Vehicle To Increase Sales For Your Startup? | |
| 12.07.2017 | Amazon Echo Sold Thousands a Minute on Prime Day and Are Still on Sale | Amazon Echo Sold Thousands a Minute on Prime Day and Are Still on Sale
Bret Kinsella on July 12, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Sara Perez and Ingrid Lunden from TechCrunch reported yesterday that Amazon was selling thousands of Echo devices per minute du... |
| 11.07.2017 | Echo devices are Amazon Prime Day’s best sellers | Amazon’s decision to deeply discount its voice-powered Echo devices for Prime Day appears to be paying off for the online retailer. Though Prime Day is still underway this afternoon, Amazon has already sold more Echo devices than it did on ... |
| 25.11.2016 | Forget The Turkey: Thanksgiving 2016 Online Spending Of US Shoppers Hit Above $1 Billion Mark | Anu Passary, Tech Times 25 November 2016, 10:11 am
Thanksgiving 2016 is officially here and while people celebrate the spirit of togetherness, they are also turning to online shopping to indulge themselves during the holiday weekend.
Accord... |
| 28.10.2016 | Wish is raising again, and giving late-stage investors protection | Wish, a San Francisco-based e-commerce mobile app that’s taken off in the U.S. and Europe by selling watches, clothing and other items extremely cheaply, is raising a new round of funding, a new filing shows. (The research company CB Insigh... |
| 12.07.2016 | How To Implement eCommerce In Your Business | July 12, 2016 5 min read
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eCommerce, or the ability to sell products and services online, has... |
| 01.03.2016 | The hot e-commerce app Wish has “hundreds of millions of users” (plus other fascinating stats) | Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their backg... |
| 06.01.2016 | This ‘Returns Week’ is a burden for online retailers | The holiday season is over and some consumers aren’t happy with their gifts and return them. But as more and more Christmas shopping happened online, products need to be returned to online retailers. Royal Mail called last Monday “Mail-Back... |
| 06.11.2015 | Amazon launches Amazon Prime Now in Italy | Amazon has launched its one-hour delivery service, called Amazon Prime Now, in Italy. Consumers who are Amazon Prime members can schedule a same-day delivery for free and have goods delivered within the hour for 6.90 euros. Italy is now the... |
| 30.10.2015 | Etsy sellers disagree with increased importance seller location | Etsy has been testing an updated search ranking so locally-made items for buyers in the United Kingdom and Australia are shown more prominent. The goal is to create a better local shopping experience. That may be the case for shoppers brows... |
| 03.08.2015 | Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits | Over the weekend, Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits. The changes are designed to limit the ability for customers to share Amazo... |
| 24.09.2014 | 10 mistakes companies make handling outages (and how to avoid them) | No one likes to talk about outages. They’re horrible to experience as an employee and they take a heavy toll in customer confidence and future revenue. But they do happen.
Even publicly traded tech powerhouses, such as eBay and Microsoft, w... |
| 24.09.2014 | 10 mistakes companies make handling outages (and how to avoid them) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
No one likes to talk about outages. They’re horri... |
| 19.05.2014 | Western Union And eBay Try To Horn In On Bitcoin With New Patents | Two weeks ago, Western Union received a patent for “Alternative value exchange systems and methods,” which, in short, is a way for the company to use and accept “alternative currencies.” At the time of filing, back in 2009, these currencies... |
| 16.05.2014 | New Google Glass App Lets You Nod To Pay With Bitcoin, Will Add Dollars This Summer | While Google may be working on adding Google Wallet to Glass, and other big payment players are “eyeing up” (!) ways of integrating into Google’s computing headgear, a Dutch startup has beaten them to the punch.
Eaze is a new app, out in be... |
| 17.02.2014 | eBay Sellers Speak Out Against Business Policies | eBay sellers have become frustrated with a feature the site has been automatically turning on for their stores.
eBay announced Business Policies nearly two years ago. The feature amounts to a set of custom settings for shipping, return and ... |
| 08.01.2014 | Fulfillment by Amazon: What Amazon doesn’t tell third-party sellers | Updated 12:52 pm, 1/13/2014
Online retailer Amazon has built arguably the most sophisticated logistics network in the world – and that was before it hinted at drone delivery. Selling an incredibly diverse array of products in more than 20 c... |
| 02.12.2013 | Amazon embraces drones, but what about workers? | (MoneyWatch) Domino's Pizza used to promote a 30-minute delivery time, although it eventually ended the guarantee after losing some lawsuits over driver accidents. Now another company, Amazon (AMZN), is looking at a 30-minute delivery time,... |
| 02.12.2013 | Amazon embraces drones, but what about workers? | (MoneyWatch) Domino's Pizza used to promote a 30-minute delivery time, although it eventually ended the guarantee after losing some lawsuits over driver accidents. Now another company, Amazon (AMZN), is looking at a 30-minute delivery time,... |
| 02.10.2013 | GoDaddy Buys Ronin, Makes Inroads Into Accounting Services For Small Businesses | Another week, another acquisition for GoDaddy. The domain registration and hosting company announced today that it has bought Ronin, a company that specializes in online invoicing services to help businesses bill customers and keep track of... |
| 19.03.2013 | To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers | Ebay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon. For the first time, eBay is launching free listings for both non-stor... |
| 11.02.2013 | Yardsellr, The “eBay For Facebook,” Becomes The Latest Casualty In Social & Local Commerce | As Facebook’s growth began to accelerate exponentially in 2009 and 2010 and its platform began to emerge, the opportunities for businesses to leverage and apply its social graph in other industries seemed endless. In particular, many saw th... |
| 12.11.2012 | I smell a rat behind eBay's wildcard search change | Late last month, eBay, the dominant auction site, took away from users the ability to search auction listings with wildcard keywords, which can be very useful to buyers looking for very specific part numbers or product series. It is (or rat... |
| 09.10.2012 | Hundreds Of Bonanza Users Get Their Twitter Accounts Suspended [Updated] | It appears that Twitter accounts who have been tweeting links to pages from ecommerce site Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle) have been getting suspended by Twitter. Bonanza co-founder Mark Dorsey tells WebProNews, “This past Friday, hundreds of o... |
| 24.08.2012 | Say what? Philly’s tweeters ain’t the rudest [LINKS] | Rude tweeting ‘study’ about Philly is full of it [Philadelphia Inquirer] One Inquirer reporter digs a little deeper into a Twitter map that has got media outlets calling Philly’s tweeters the rudest in the nation. Said reporter also takes t... |
| 18.11.2011 | What is Form 1099-K?: online payment tax tracking paperwork | As a CPA, my job can be boiled down to one task, “Worry about everything.” And as co-founder of a tech startup, there is no shortage of things to worry about. One thing that has been bugging at me for over a year now is the new Form 1099-K.... |
| - | Amazon turns to influencer marketing to reinvigorate Prime Day | The news: This week’s Amazon Prime Day event, its eighth-annual such sale, will incorporate a new wrinkle: influencer marketing.
The activation: The digital retail juggernaut booked event spaces and loaded them with goods that would be on s... |
| - | Официально: PayPal получил лицензию на деятельность в России | Официально: PayPal получил лицензию на деятельность в России
15 Мая, 2013, 16:50
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После двух месяцев активных слухов о выходе крупнейшей международной платежной системы на российский рынок, PayPal наконец получил ста... |
| - | Two former eBay executives sentenced to prison for involvement in cyberstalking scheme | James Baugh and David Harville were sentenced on Thursday following a 2019 cyberstalking scheme.
The ex-eBay employees hatched a campaign to harass the editor and publisher of eCommercebytes, a website closely followed by online sellers
Pro... |
| - | Etsy без объявления заблокировал создание аккаунтов продавцов из России | Площадка товаров ручной работы Etsy заблокировала возможность создавать магазины для продавцов из регионов, где недоступна ее платежная система Etsy Payments. В этом списке оказались Россия, Украина и Беларусь. Компания никак не анонсировал... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
| - | PayPal выходит на российский рынок? | PayPal выходит на российский рынок?
13 Марта, 2013, 11:00
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Крупнейшая международная платежная система сумела договориться с российским Центробанком и теперь сможет практически полноценно работать на российском рынке э... |
| - | EBay to pay $3M after employees sent live spiders, cockroaches to couple | More On: ebay
These phone apps are collecting the most data on you — how to protect yourself Eccentric uncle leaves behind over 2K fact-filled, Snapple caps Late rabbi’s socks sell for $18K on eBay Iconic Chandler Bing outfit worn by Matthe... |
| - | «А судится кто?», или 5 исков к IT-компаниям | Компанию Apple попытались обвинить в завышении цен на электронные книги. Тяжба началась в апреле 2012 года, когда несколько потребителей из разных штатов подали на компанию коллективный иск. Истцы уверяли, что Apple получила $280 млн за счё... |
| - | Another day, another independent designer stolen from | The protests of ecommerce business owners and small designers that their work has been copied are becoming increasingly common.
In fact, some businesses are claiming that the rip-offs are produced so quickly and sold at such a low price tha... |
| - | Will Shopify’s 34% price increase see small business customers walk away from the platform? | Source: supplied.
In Australia over 100,000 businesses rely on the Shopify platform to run their e-commerce stores. For 12 years, Shopify store owners have enjoyed a stable price for their Shopify platform fee.
So, last week when Shopify an... |
