EBay’s Privacy Compromise

[meaghantiffany]

Just spent 20 minutes trying to contact eBay, leaving a message on the larger Community  forum, and that was deleted. 
Apparently it’s not okay to diss eBay’s partner sharing of our info publicly. A person can’t opt out of eBay selling their info to their partners because the links they provide aren’t operational. 
We should be able to fully opt out by submitting one single preference to do so. But that’d be too easy (& less profitable for eBay). If you’re like me you likely hadn’t yet noticed that to fully opt out you have to visit over eight separate partner websites & submit your request individually. 
But the links to do so are inactive, and that’s not a coincidence. But it is exceedingly poor form, and the Community should hold eBay to a higher standard than this. 

[elvey]

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@meaghantiffany wrote:

Just spent 20 minutes trying to contact eBay, leaving a message on the larger Community  forum, and that was deleted. Apparently it’s not okay to diss eBay’s partner sharing of our info publicly.

That's not cool.

A person can’t opt out of eBay selling their info to their partners because the links they provide aren’t operational. 
We should be able to fully opt out by submitting one single preference to do so. But that’d be too easy (& less profitable for eBay). If you’re like me you likely hadn’t yet noticed that to fully opt out you have to visit over eight separate partner websites & submit your request individually. 
But the links to do so are inactive, and that’s not a coincidence. But it is exceedingly poor form, and the Community should hold eBay to a higher standard than this. 

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I hadn't noticed.  Indeed, it's not a coincidence.  I've noticed and documented many features of the eBay system that appear designed to facilitate and perpetuate fraud.
  It's hard when the community is censored, to hold eBay to a higher standard. 

[elvey]

I just realized that AuctionBytes/eCommerceBytes, while a good site, is entirely focused on supporting and voicing concerns of sellers.  On twitter, there's @eBayStop,  @Counterfeit_Rpt, @actionfrauduk, etc.

[elvey]

Prime example: search ebay for "aaa rechargeable batteries 1800mah" and you'll see it looks like perhaps a million""1800mAh AAA rechargeable batteries" have been sold.  Every one of them is a fake. Every. Single. One.  

Because there's no such thing.  No one has figured out how to make such a battery.  I've posted detailed evidence about this here (and around); you can search my posts to find it.  Ebay management knows and leaves 'em up.  Ditto.

[elvey]

Found a couple more on Twitter @eBayFrauds, @unsuckEBAY .

[elvey]

If you don't want to search: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Selling/Help-us-improve-our-product-pages/m-p/26291752/highlig...

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PROOF: The best AAA NiMH batteries in the world top out around 1100mAh ((and ~3500 mAh for AA NiMH's).  You can see this if you visit specialist testing sites, e.g. see http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/CommonAAcomparator.php and check them all out - e.g. the highest capacity: Tecxus AAA 1100 NiMH ~== Camelion AAA 1100mAh - see image below.

The major name brands never claim anything close to 1800 mAh for AAA batteries 

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/HR03-850_EU.pdf : 850 mAh AAA's

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?163194-Sony-CycleEnergy-3800mAh-Ni-MH-AA-cells - fake.  Real SONY AAs (see archive.is/pKeTz - an archive of Sony's website ) are 2100, 2500 and 2700 mAh.

etc etc

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EBAY exec: 

@elvey I'm not an expert on capacity rating of batteries but you seem to know what you're talking about so I'll take your word for it. You've shamed me into following up on this issue. So I'll see what I can do to clean up this category. 

Some of the links are dead.  But TENS OF THOUSANDS of sales of fakes shown under a "aaa rechargeable batteries 1800mah" search under just two of the > 100 listings alone!

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/NEW-PAYPAL-POLICY-DOES-NOT-REFUND-SELLER-S-FEES-IN-CASE-OF/td-...

[elvey]

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PROOF: The best AAA NiMH batteries in the world top out around 1100mAh ((and ~3500 mAh for AA NiMH's).  You can see this if you visit specialist testing sites, e.g. see http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/CommonAAcomparator.php and check them all out - e.g. the highest capacity: Tecxus AAA 1100 NiMH ~== Camelion AAA 1100mAh - see image below.

The major name brands never claim anything close to 1800 mAh for AAA batteries 

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/HR03-850_EU.pdf : 850 mAh AAA's

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?163194-Sony-CycleEnergy-3800mAh-Ni-MH-AA-cells - fake.  Real SONY AAs (see archive.is/pKeTz - an archive of Sony's website ) are 2100, 2500 and 2700 mAh.

etc etc

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EBAY exec: 

@elvey I'm not an expert on capacity rating of batteries but you seem to know what you're talking about so I'll take your word for it. You've shamed me into following up on this issue. So I'll see what I can do to clean up this category. 

Some of the links are dead.  But TENS OF THOUSANDS of sales of fakes shown under a "aaa rechargeable batteries 1800mah" search under just two of the > 100 listings alone!

[elvey]

@elvey I'm not an expert on capacity rating of batteries but you seem to know what you're talking about so I'll take your word for it. You've shamed me into following up on this issue. So I'll see what I can do to clean up this category.