MORE ebay crap

[CPUShack]

Your ebay account will now be locked down to your computer.

To use it on another computer you will need them to call you with a PIN code.

lovely

[Cpuswe]

I thought April Fools' Day occurred at the same time all over the world. Seems not...

They are indeed trying to kill eBay

[Qwerty]

eBay uses the adobe flash browser plugin to tag and track your computer.
If you deactivate it ASAP the idiots from eBay won't be able to associate your computer with your account. Because of this the lock won't be engaged at all.

[D.8080]

A gunshot in the head would be better than this slow suicide...

That's pure crap 100%.

[Qwerty]

I've found this very interesting story about eBay and PayPal.

The former CEO of PayPal Germany (he's Managing Director of eBay Germany now) offered some tickets for UEFA EURO 2008 for sale - http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140237360091

The PayPal was offered in his listings as a payment method, but he insisted on some additional conditions for the buyers who want to pay with PayPal.

[Cpuswe]

Trusted Selling with Identity Confirmation
One of the ways criminals attempt to defraud people on eBay is by gaining access to member accounts with well-established reputations which they then use to set up listings in that person’s name. They gain this access often through a phishing email that convinces an unsuspecting member to click a link and enter their User ID and password.

To protect the Community against this type of fraud, beginning today, eBay will start noting which computers members typically use to conduct their buying and selling activity. After our data collection phase, sometime in June eBay will begin verifying our sellers when they list an item to ensure they are logging in from the same machines they have successfully used previously – usually a home or business computer.

If you are a seller, and you attempt to list an item from a different computer – for example, from a PC you are borrowing in a hotel or library – eBay will make an automated call to the phone number you have registered with us to confirm it is really you. We may also prompt you to verify your identity in other ways.

Initially, this identity confirmation process will only be applied to selling, although we may be extending this to other high-visibility activity in the future.