Oooops, another eBay forum post censored accident
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As highlighted in the past post here, eBay spokesman said regarding censored eBay forum posts on the subject eBay padding their listings: A comment on a Tuesday Appscout post suggested that forum posts critical of eBay’s policies had been deleted.EBay denied that any forum deletions were intentional. If any posts were taken down “it was accidental,” the spokesman said. “We’re not afraid of hearing from our community and allowing them to post and discuss things and be angry on our boards”
Ebay must be having another case of accidentitis on their forums as more and more critical posts are dissappearing. |
This post from one of eBays largest powersellers titled
I have sold 300,000 eBay items but am quitting completely!
is now deleted by eBay censors: here is a link to the original post:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000529608&tstart=0&mod=1204856790666
if you click on it, you will get : The specified topic [2000529608] was not found.
My guess would be eBay is totally paranoid about seller exodus and when one of the largest power sellers calls it quits and announces it on eBay’s own Seller Discussion Forum, someone is shaking in their booties, thinking this might encourage other sellers to move away. So deleting the post and pretending it never happened is the eBay way! I am sure this incident will never make it to the mainstream media and if it does, it will be declared another accident/test/glitch.
Again, Google is our friend and we have screenshots of the censored out post that eBay deleted by accident, check out what eBay did not want you to see.
screenshot of I have sold 300,000 eBay items but am quitting completely! deleted thread by eBay censors
I wondered how long that one would last.. But i thought eBay said it didn’t censor it’s members - and wanted to hear their feelings?? LOL!!
I screen shot the whole thing.. It’s in the archive:
http://www.suspendedfromebay.com/postings-archive/
BTW: Loved Meg’s Photo!
Comment by scamthis — March 9, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
actually, ebay has the ability to restore threads. They did that one time before. Also from a records retention stand, they have to have this on tape backup. it’s part of any IT infrastructure to have this process in place. neener neener ebay and liveworld. Btw, I must be the boardie clearing house. I haven’t been posting for weeks but umm people sent me the threads so I have all the posts! L O L O L
Ebay has never been receptive to sellers being angry on the boards. Why do you think Maeve scolded us with that post that things have to stop on the stores board? eh? They must be looking at a message board with crazy house mirrors and one person talking to himself. They pulled out the swiffer crew the last major fee hike too. It’s the pink hatchet club in full force. I’m not interested in rioting but I’ll tell you, this looks like its shaping out to be one major block party. you got buyers and store sellers AND mega sellers ticked off. It’s the end of the quarter, all it really takes is for a dozen mega sellers to raise a small % of their core listings to not sell and you would of screwed their STR for ebays end of quarter, that’s better than a boycott because ebay can’t control it with a listing promo OR adding more inventory volume. They’ll have to turn on the traffic juice and force the sales like you know they have been controlling for years. Try it you’ll see, I’ve only been wrong a few times!
Comment by fruity — March 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm