EBay is mad at Amazon and sent them a letter
Sneaky sneaky by Amazon, but shouldn’t you guys at eBay have caught this before being told by a user? “EBay sent a cease-and-desist letter to Amazon on Monday to stop the alleged recruiting practice after determining roughly 50 Amazon sales representatives world-wide sent more than 1,000 messages to sellers on its platform.” “EBay investigated the matter after a seller alerted the company about 10 days ago of someone using the messaging system on eBay’s site to convince this seller to move to Amazon.” “To avoid detection, messages sent by Amazon sales reps stayed generic and frequently used hyphens or periods between letters to describe the rival company, including a-m-a-z-o-n or A.M.Z.N., the cease-and-desist letter alleges. They also spelled out email addresses and phone numbers to avoid automated detection meant to prevent sharing contact information, eBay claims in the letter said.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebay-accuses-amazon-of-illegally-poaching-sellers-1538572210
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Why is it illegal?
Although eBay just accused Amazon of unfair trade practices, it isn't looking for regulators for help. In an onstage interview at the GeekWire Summit yesterday, CEO Devin Wenig told me, "That's not the way we compete."
eBay is done if they are crying to the government over this and saying Amazon broke the law.
Hey can we send a cease and desist to Uber for telling people to use UberEats instead of Postmates? Maybe this will delay the inevitable a little longer for us lol
Ebay is in tough shit. Not sure what lies ahead of them in terms of future. People who work there seems to take their work very lightly. I know that they pay very well, not sure why the workforce is not motivated.
I think it’s the stock price and search.
The stock price isn't something that the engineers can do much about if they're being told to implement ideas that aren't doing much for their bottom line
You didn't see snap whining when Instagram stole their base.
How come a 12 reply-thread became a trending topic? Blind is manipulative as fuck
It's probably based on views, not comments.
What's ebay?
Everyone always acts like it’s a coordinated effort by some huge evil corporate borg whenever amazon does stuff like this. In reality it was probably just a few dumbass sales reps trying to meet their numbers. Amazon as a whole is incapable of coordinating anything anymore. We all just kinda do stuff and try to get promos
Agreed
This. I don't even know what the team that sits next to me do and I couldn't care less. It's also on the flipside the single best thing about Amazon. There's so much ownership that you can independently coordinate and execute something like this. Probably the only one who had to give a green light for this was their L6 manager.
Haha!! Really