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If I ran eBay
by acdickson

I would put auctions like this one on the front page.

Ur Ho honcho Mikey sent me the link this morning. It represents the utopian model of eBay. A chance to make a difference, the power of a online communication, and the potential for community on a global scale. This is exactly the kind of auction eBay should be promoting on it's home page (which was pimping Square Pants Sponge Bob stuff last I checked) or at the very least the Pulse page (which today features 3 of 10 auctions selling the opportunity to advertise on a sexual organ).

eBay stands a crossroad with their competing policies of self-policing and philanthropy at odds. Is eBay going to step in and make their site and my livelihood something the millions of members and hundreds of thousands of full time sellers can be proud of? Or are they going to let a overwhelling sense of tackiness and bad apple members shame us all.

What's it going to be Meg?

Sadly, eBay CEO Meg Whitman is a Bush supporter, so I somehow can't imagine she has a problem with rampant greed becoming the hallmark of our greater culture much less the eBay culture she has ultimate control over. But I would love for her to prove AC wrong.

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Comments

I guess ebay did not have the same opinion, as they pulled Luke's listing last night.

Posted by: Rick at April 19, 2006 9:23 AM

dude, what's up with the ebay hacker spam? every time somebody asks me a legit question in my ebay questions, some weird hacker spammer attaches themselves to the questioners email(shows up in the same conversation line as a real person in my gmail account) with some wack crap! i emailed the support crew and so far have only gotten the 'what to watch out for' form letter with them saying that it shows on their end that I HAVE emailed the hacker. which obviously is not true. do you use the toolbar with account guard? is that what i need? man, it's freakin me out.
love, honey

Posted by: honey at May 9, 2006 10:50 PM