Hacker News Reader

Comment by memyselfi66 | Hacker News Reader

As an ebay seller, it is evident you never, ever comment negatively about ebay online. There are too many times sellers, including large ones, make negative comments only to see ramifications occur.

When this occurred, I was dumbfounded Wenig and Wymer faced no repercussions from what happened. Plausible deniability is quite the cloak.

I could only imagine receiving a funeral wreath for a spouse or having porn addressed to you delivered to your neighbors. Frightening.

ebay strikes me as a company living in the past and squandered what they had built.

View on HN

eBay has been continually backed into a corner since the rise of Amazon in 2010. They have behaved like a wounded animal cornered and fighting back.

Given that Amazon is just reaching its might now, the real pain for eBay's marketplace has not yet begun.

That means the worst of eBay is yet to come. Be careful of cornering wounded animals.

>I could only imagine receiving a funeral wreath for a spouse or having porn addressed to you delivered to your neighbors. Frightening.

YMMV. My neighbors would give me my porn magazines back (or they'd take it and read it themselves) and we'd have a laugh about it. Also the police would laugh at me if I tried to report these things. Pigs and bugs in the mail? Most people would be annoyed and little more.

Everything short of the stalker van only really works on upstanding people in quiet suburbs.

When your trashy neighbors get their tires slashed or get in heated arguments on the front porch you feel confused instead of harassed when funeral wreaths start showing up.

Receiving a funeral wreath and books on dealing with the death of a spouse seems not laughable to me. Same for being tailed by a van, then an SUV later. Have a look at the website(s) for "Progressive Force Concepts". They don't seem like your average prankster.

Edit: The scary part to me isn't just what Progressive Force Concepts might do within the bounds of whatever their internal guidelines are. Those are bad enough. But, it looks like a paramilitary organization. The pool of people they hire from is loaded with people that are likely to do whatever they want.

Well, I am not upstanding at all. I would still vote to convict on that jury for uttering death threats re: the funeral wreath. A reasonable person would reach that interpretation, I think.

Did you miss the part where it all started with someone spray painting their house?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com