Mar 10 2008
eBay Continues To Lie About Forum Censorship!
eBay continues to lie about censorship on their community forums. Those of us that frequent the eBay discussion boards know well about eBay’s famous pink slaps.
The pink slap is the common term used when a eBay users posting or whole thread is pulled from the forum, and the member receives a nasty gram from the forum moderators. “I just got pink slapped“. Get 3-4 of these and you could get sentenced to the “pink poky” a posting ban can be anywhere from a few days to a permanent posting banishment.
I once got a 30 day sentence for posting a link to a private discussion board i set up for a few friends. We were so tired of getting slapped silly by eBay’s moderators i came up with the solution.
That brings me to the topic of this posting.
In this article on pcmag.com. “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.”
A long time eBay seller “emovieposter.com” had posted a thread saying he was fed up with eBay and was leaving! But guess what.. He got pink slapped! And the post which was 7 pages long was pulled! I knew when i first read it that it wouldn’t last long! eBay is indeed very critical of posts like this!
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This posting sure made eBay look bad when Bruce Hershenson announced to everyone he was leaving eBay to go on his own with his own auction site.
Those of us who are seasoned eBay forum users know eBay (with it’s Nazi Regime style of management) couldn’t let Bruce embarrass them to all the other sellers! Then Poof.. With one click of the mouse, that thread was history!
Bruce, I wish you well, and know a credible seller like you will do just fine on your own. There is indeed “Life After IT!”
I actually particiated in a thread about this thread that was on Seller Central Discussion Forum on eBay which is discussing a movie being pulled from a theatre. Naturally it hinted to the above post being pulled by eBay censors. Even that post about the movie being pulled was also pulled…. I wish I saved the screenshots. Talking about paranoia on eBay side!
Between the censorship and the padded listings, i wouldn’t be surprised of someone winds up getting indited!
It’s time these greedy pigs get what is coming to them!
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Thanks
Thank you for posting this. I hope you don’t mind, I have cropped the image to just show Bruce’s initial post and their is a group of us going to create thread after thread as they are pulled reposting his original comments. We will enjoy our vacations! BOYCOTT VICTORIOUSLY!!!
I see emovieposter.com is still selling on eBay!
http://tinyurl.com/69tnef
With your permission, suspendedfromebay.com, I have posted this thread:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000678625&tstart=0&mod=1207512897660
So far ebay has been deleting them, but I think I finally got one through. Thank you for capturing the original thread.
Well, they deleted everything I posted and now I have been sanctioned so I am checking out the pink beaches!!
Thanks for the info though!
I made my first post today, within minutes It was deleted and I was sanctioned for 7 day. Wow this is ridiculous – they are running scared. This is ( was ) my post.
I am concerned that Ebay has lost its way. I used to come to Ebay first for all of my needs – now I go somewhere else. Usually the prices are higher on Ebay and I dont know who it is coming from. I can buy most things cheaper from a reputable company and have some kind of warranty. I used to be able to get a deal on Ebay – but now it seems there are just multiple listings from the same people or companies with higher prices over and over. This cannot last – I see Ebay going away or changing dramatically.