Exploding the Myth That eBay Is A Safe Marketplace: eBay Puts Users At Risk

[Kristijntje]

The eBay Myth is that you are somehow safe there.

This has never been true. From the beginnings of the service, in the 1990s, eBay deliberately tried to hold its security expenses to a minimum.

First, "the community": was to be relied upon. Then you were told, it's your risk. The eBay financial system has never been a member of Visa because achieving that level of security would be too expensive. So eBay bought PayPal and tried to turn it into a private bank -- only it lacked banking security.

full article: http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/archiv...y_myth.php

related topics:
eBay Knew For 1 Yr.That Security Holes On Its Site Could Lead to Account Hijacks http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...668.0.html
eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...754.0.html
Chinese Hacker Gang Hijacks eBay Germany Accounts http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...854.0.html
2004 Security Defect in LiveWorld Forums Gave Hackers Access to eBay Users Data http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...837.0.html

[regic]

The fact is that eBay has never paid-out what was necessary to assure any level of security. It has pocketed that money as profit, and now it's reaping the whirlwind for that.

...and trying to deflect blame in the press by blaming its users for problems caused by its own poor site security

[xppman]

I wonder how much they pay a year to LieWorld to host their boards and
to have their brown nose spin shills "deflect blame" and make
all those poor souls who have had problems
with the convoluted PP polices (that only got worst after ebay bought them)
feel as if it is all the users fault.

I will give them this. Some of the problems brought about are
indeed users problems / faults.
But if PP and ebay would write polices that are comprehensive and not
so convoluted, then you would see less user problems I would think.

The need for large company like PPbay to have so
much language in their UA's is for one reason only.

TO PROTECT THEM.

The BIG LIE "Myth" that ebay and PP is safe is being uncovered every day
by both buyers and sellers.

I love to see that.