If eBay, Amazon and Facebook are all cesspits, where can you buy stuff online in a decent way? Search small shops individually?
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Ooh, Casefile did a great podcast ep on this. Episode 306. (If you're not familiar, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime. It's not exploitative or voyeuristic. Just stories of notable crimes and their investigations, with plenty of awful police work and miscarriages of justice.)
This seems so out of place with Casey's normal material. My wife was a big, big fan for a long time, everything seemed murdery to an outsider like me. The first one she showed me ended up being one guy one hammer, and lemme tell you, it was almost cathartic to know that that video I had watched a decade prior at least ended with them being caught.
Behind the Bastards too
This is class warfare. The wealthy thought they could get away with targeted harassment just because they're used to getting their way, and they know there's two tiers of justice.
I'm glad the journalists won, as they should have, but there is an ever-growing list of regular people who didn't.
And there are two tiers, most of them didn't even get charged with criminal charges.
Note that this happened in 2019 and is only finally seeing justice now. My own legal battle cost around $25,000 per year. That's not something most people would be able to afford for 7 years straight.
My legal fight is paid for entirely by my government, which is great because it's their fault I'm in it
I’m kinda curious about the stooges who did these things. Who would be stupid enough to commit crimes on behalf of a company? Did they seriously expect the company to go to bat for them if things went bad? They must have been drinking a LOT of eBay Kool Aid.
Behind the Bastards did two episodes on this one if you really want to learn more. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-that-time-ebays-private-211963285/
great podcast!
Good. Barabra Streisand effect:
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/4/1554870735.html
I would've never got to this article if it wasn't for these weirdos.
It kind of goes to show the type of person who is ok profiting off this sort of inequality
What the hell happened to eBay? As an internet startup they were pretty committed to doing the right thing even if it cost more. I get that was the silicon valley of the 90s, and probably before corporate pressure to maximize profits and share prices.
I think it's just been easy to ignore how evil they are.
They've been tightly linked with Peter Thiel since they took over PayPal which has constantly stolen people's money. It's just harder for an auction house like eBay to be obviously evil.
eBay? Wtf is eBay...
...oh, you mean scamBay!