OT: Ebay Removed My Derek Jeter 1997 Topps Auto Card

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Anyone else have thoughts on my question?

It impacted his sale but the rules for ebay supercede anything else on ebay. And I am sure, they have as I do on this board, a catch 22 clause for the ones that could be tweeners. Most times, I would think that Taking ebay to court would require deep pockets to win. Not sure if that answered your question though.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

It impacted his sale but the rules for ebay supercede anything else on ebay. And I am sure, they have as I do on this board, a catch 22 clause for the ones that could be tweeners. Most times, I would think that Taking ebay to court would require deep pockets to win. Not sure if that answered your question though.

Thanks Leon. I'm talking about situations where there is no ebay rule violation, but an employee with a personal vendetta has created a violation. It's basically improper use of company information by an employee and I would think that the higher-ups would frown on that. Winning the case is not the issue - it is making ebay go to the trouble of having to send someone to small claims court, thus having to go through the process of figuring out which employee caused them the grief. And firing that employee.

People tend to think of corporations as entities in themselves, which they are; however, they are also obviously composed of a lot of individual meat-based people who make stupid individual decisions, often illegal, that the other people in the company would not approve of. Basically, this wasn't ebay that did this to Chris - it was a person. Same in my situation - someone who likes to have fun at the expense of others, had fun at my expense. Nothing truly evil - just using company resources to make my life a little difficult for a few moments.

Turnabout (turned up) is fair play.

[Big Dave]

Any litigation involving eBay must be done California, per their user's agreement.

The expense would far outweigh any benefit.

[Runscott]

Thanks, Dave. So then it comes down to bringing the offending employee to your home state, if you have enough evidence. That, along with his association with ebay and having committed the crime while under their employment, should be enough for him to lose his job.

[Mr. Zipper]

As a publicly traded company, you'd think eBay would have some sort of Ombudsman or Compliance Officer to escalate alleged improper/unethical employee behavior. Perhaps with a little digging, the identity of that type of person could be uncovered. (The regular complaint process is not appropriate because the issue is with an employee -- not with a transaction.)

This page at eBay, Inc. details the Board of Directors and also features the eBay Employee Code of Conduct and Ethics: http://investor.ebayinc.com/governance.cfm

If it was me, I'd try to find an Ombudsman. If that did not work, then write to every member of the Board of Directors until I got a satisfactory response.

[Runscott]

Chris, After posting my story about an event that happened with an ebay employee 10 years ago, guess what? I got an auction pulled last night for no reason whatsoever - they listed a reason, but it was irrelevant. Now I'm wondering if the same person still works for them - I know he visits this forum. I had hoped that was all over with, but maybe not.

[drcy]

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[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Chris, After posting my story about an event that happened with an ebay employee 10 years ago, guess what? I got an auction pulled last night for no reason whatsoever - they listed a reason, but it was irrelevant. Now I'm wondering if the same person still works for them - I know he visits this forum. I had hoped that was all over with, but maybe not.

Coincidence, Scott?

Nope.

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Chris, After posting my story about an event that happened with an ebay employee 10 years ago, guess what? I got an auction pulled last night for no reason whatsoever - they listed a reason, but it was irrelevant. Now I'm wondering if the same person still works for them - I know he visits this forum. I had hoped that was all over with, but maybe not.

i've only known one long time board member that worked for ebay/paypal, he moved from the east coast out west to work for them. not sure if we're talking about the same person, but he doesn't work there anymore. he also doesn't seem to be the type to pull auctions just because he had a disagreement on the board (i don't think he's even in that dept).