Did that whole eBay posting padding stuff just evaporate?

Prethen

There were several threads about this a couple of weeks ago. It seemed pretty alarming, but I never saw it on any major news sites or news reports. Was it blown out of proportion? Did it just get swept under the rug? What happened?

ArizonaJack

Yeah, what happened?????

RayNY2E

E-Bay Nuked all The Threads,getting rid of the evidence. Ray in Florida..

ziggy29

<< <i>E-Bay Nuked all The Threads,getting rid of the evidence. Ray in Florida.. >>

Yeah, but some people captured screen shots and such, so they couldn't completely bury it. Still, I haven't heard much of it.

I tend not to be a foil-hatted conspiracy guy, but something smells a little funny here.

Pentimento

Can someone link to an archive/screencaps?

tmcsr69

In the big picture, most people don't care if ebay pads their listings numbers. It just doesn't change their life that much. Ebay's stock is affected by profits more than listing numbers. While I see it as a sign of dishonesty on ebays part-don't far to many large companies do the same thing in one way or another?

mercurynut

Its time for a Congressional hearing on the matter and see if Ebay "misremebered" all the fake auctions like Clemens misremebered using roids.

dac076

Down the memory hole, as Orwell would say.

tmcsr69

I just read this story and it reminded me of this ebay situation. Large companies will do anything to look good.

Flybe has given the term low-fare airline an entirely new meaning: it is paying 172 people to fly back and forth across England and the Irish Sea to help it meet a target for passenger numbers at Norwich airport.

Flybe was narrowly falling short of a target to deliver at least 15,000 passengers on the Dublin-Norwich route in the 12 months ending on Monday, which meant it would have to forego a 280,000 pound ($550,000) rebate from the airport.

After the airport rejected a request for a partial rebate for almost hitting the target, Flybe hired 172 temps for 30-40 pounds each, plus a free bar and in-flight entertainment, though it admitted "it probably sounds like an early April fool."

But Richard Jenner, managing director of the airport in eastern England, called the British carrier's move "ludicrous" and said the target had to be met by regular fare-paying passengers.

"The ludicrousness is on the Norwich side who in essence have tried to hold us to ransom, putting at risk routes into Norwich," Flybe Chief Commercial Officer Mike Rutter replied in a joint interview with Jenner on Irish public broadcaster RTE.

(Reporting by Andras Gergely; Editing by Jon Boyle)