eBay reviews

Most of the "shady" business practices are from counterfeit sales. PayPal used to do business with Alibaba. In fact, most of my fraud claims were Alibaba purchases because they were selling knock-offs (and still do). Unfortunately, counterfeit sales makes up a large portion of China's GDP so they sort of turn a blind eye to it (at least in my experience). Alibaba would never dispute a claim filed against them, a refund would always be issued immediately. Hell, their account was managed by a senior account manager and no one that wasn't him/her or an executive could touch it (it had so much data, it almost wouldn't load for me). I'm not sure what exactly led to PayPal "parting ways" but it had a lot to do with their business model. As far as people going to jail... I never heard of that happening. I would like to think that some of my Compliance work led to some cases being filed or arrests being made. I investigated and filed reports for everything from simple Chinese counterfeit to major child pornography rings.

My personal area and department is Buyer Protection. It is very misleading to say we are discouraged from using common sense. I know a lot of the time its hard to understand the mindset that we have or deeper reasons on why a decision is made. Of course, we have a policy to follow because we are a business. Every decision we make effects three parties (eBay and its shareholders, buyer, and seller). But our supervisors and management encourage us to do the right thing. But there are limits to that. We can't cover a seller just because they feel they are right for whatever reason and we have nothing to back it up with, etc. The copyright violations isn't my area of expertise, but I am familiar with it. Can you give me a little more information about what you mean on "Design Copyright Violation"?

Overall the attitude towards Donahoe was good. We were more focused on our President. At first it was Scott Thompson who everyone liked but then he went to Yahoo! and turns out he was not such an upstanding person. David Marcus was energetic and made some real positive changes. --- I was selling for extra cash. I sold paracord bracelets and accessories. Every order meant I had to custom weave something. It was time consuming and tiring with larger orders. I am a systems administrator now with a different company. I make much more money but have less time. I gave it up because it wasn't worth it anymore. This was also the time when eBay started changing their selling requirements.

I am by no means a corporate leader nor do I have any corporate leadership experience. As a lower-tier employee, I was treated very well and in the later part of my tenure, I was allowed to make my own decisions and work at my own pace. This is mostly because I was very good at what I did. Conducting investigations was second nature to me as I have prior experience in law enforcement. Over the last year or so, I have heard of lay-offs and degradation of employee morale from my friends who still work there. I am not quite sure what is driving these factors, but I imagine it's profit driven. TL;DR I can't really answer your question as most of the corporate intelligence was "above my paygrade".

I'm 2008, when I became a 1099 independent contractor for eBay I enjoyed running sales through their online platform. I couldn't say enough good things about working for eBay. Upper management went the extra mile to address my concerns as a seller.

My appreciation and desire to work for them took a nosedive in 2015. EBay customer service and resolution representatives began to side up with customers and seller stores without notice. Money I made from hard work and ethical practices would be pulled from my PayPal account to please a customer - even when the customer was abusing the purchase policies.

Perk: EBay buck bonuses for making sales.

Not remote friendly

Getting great prices on lost or returned items

Being ordered to lie harass and intimidate unwanted Sellers and or customers

Nothing

everything

My favorite perk/benifits are the clean shiny amazing glazing hot shiny clean floors.

Hands on

We were only allowed one smoke break

Comparing my word paste to someone else’s

I enjoy the environment and the people I work for are very sweet I enjoy cleaning there work space for them

I have no complaints

I usually get free food

The vision and the work is rewarding. Loved working there.

Some management is difficult, decision making takes time.

401k, sabbatical

My colleagues, eBay does a great job of creating an atmosphere that encourages diversity.

No upward mobility, People tend to stay in their roles for years and it's hard to move up.

Onsite cafe. It was just a 5 minute walk and it had plenty of great healthy options to choose from.

work life and balance , I've learned a lot since I handle, buy, selling and third party

low salary, and im looking for a home base job that i can give quality time with my kids

incentives

The culture is great

The constant down-sizing and slow growth

Health insurance is great

Great management! The benefits, the inclusive culture and genuine concern they have for all of their employees.

The one-month paid sabbatical you earn with every five years of service! As a thank you for your service and continued to commitment to the company the give you one month off, paid! You don't use any PTO during this time. It's just their way of saying, "Thank you!"

Great company culture

Fun environment, free food/beverages, open office space

Great benefits, really great, capable people as well. Focused work and people but not over-the-top pressure. Great work-life balance.

A little boring at times, not the most exciting product (classifieds)

3-month paid paternity leave

I am by no means a corporate leader nor do I have any corporate leadership experience. As a lower-tier employee, I was treated very well and in the later part of my tenure, I was allowed to make my own decisions and work at my own pace. This is mostly because I was very good at what I did. Conducting investigations was second nature to me as I have prior experience in law enforcement. Over the last year or so, I have heard of lay-offs and degradation of employee morale from my friends who still work there. I am not quite sure what is driving these factors, but I imagine it's profit driven. TL;DR I can't really answer your question as most of the corporate intelligence was "above my paygrade".

My personal area and department is Buyer Protection. It is very misleading to say we are discouraged from using common sense. I know a lot of the time its hard to understand the mindset that we have or deeper reasons on why a decision is made. Of course, we have a policy to follow because we are a business. Every decision we make effects three parties (eBay and its shareholders, buyer, and seller). But our supervisors and management encourage us to do the right thing. But there are limits to that. We can't cover a seller just because they feel they are right for whatever reason and we have nothing to back it up with, etc. The copyright violations isn't my area of expertise, but I am familiar with it. Can you give me a little more information about what you mean on "Design Copyright Violation"?