The campaign began with anonymous threats via Twitter DMs before ramping up to malicious deliveries to the Steiner family home.
Items sent to the couple included pornography, a bloody pig mask, pests such as fly larvae, live spiders and cockroaches, a book about grieving a spouse and a funeral wreath.
Ebay employees had the Steiners trailed in a rented van and posted fake classified ads on Craigslist advertising a swinger party, a threesome and a yard sale with their home address
This is absolutely crazy. I wonder why the former CEO was so threatened by a relatively unknown internet blog? Its probably not an isolated incident either. I bet there were many other critics who were scared into silence and didnt bother to fight back.
I love that their website is still up and they are still reporting about ebay too
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Fixed. Sorry about that.
For the interested, there’s behind the bastards episodes about this whole scandal. It is interesting how random rich people in isolation can become totally deranged when left that way.
Fantastic episode
Thanks for the heads-up - I sought it out and listened to the whole thing. Absolutely bonkers. And the CEO continued to fail upwards!!! Zero consequences, apart from a multi-million dollar pay-out.
Couldn’t have happened to a shittier company, ebay
In other news, the Steiner’s have made more off their ebay account than pretty much every other seller I reckon.
Ryan Cohen liked that.
