Ebays true colours.

Is there nothing eBay will not exploit?
YES, it's a grab from ATS, but this has nothing to do with ATS...it's advertising.



Sanc'.
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[edit on 31-12-2004 by sanctum]

Ebay, like everything else, is just a business whose goal is the accumulation of money. Corporations who do give contributions to various needy organizations only do so for good PR so the public will trust them more in order to get more money from them. It is simple corporate american mentality.

If i remember right, there was a ebay advert on ATS for the selling of 'black' people on ebay not so long ago

The text is generated from topically words on the current page... i think.

Any search you do on google will turn up for sell on E-bay. Do a search on "my little girl", and you will find E-bay has an ad for it. Its all about the cash. They just take your key words and out them in an ad without checking what the key words actually are.



[edit on 12/31/04 by Kidfinger]

The almighty dollar.

Scruples? Ebay wouldn't know the meaning of the word. Come to think of it, of course they do.

They just don't give a %#$! outside their boardroom.

Sanc'.

It seems as if ebay will attempt to sell anything regardless of the current mood or conditions people are in. Only in America

At first I thought it might be an ebay-run auction that would be for disaster relief, like some of the charity auctions they run. But a search for "disaster relief" brings up items people are promising to donate the proceeds from.

And I'm sure ebay is taking their cut from these items.

Ebay can take a cut out of anything. I could see how people would give their disaster donations to eBay insteadof Red Cross because they probably "trust" eBay more.

oh and sanctum- LOVE the signature, fish called wanda is great

It just puts your words you search for behind "for sale".
Do like kidfinger said, except google search for "slaves". Usually, it says Slaves for Sale, or Slaves on Ebay.

you actually read the ads....

I never pay attention to those...matter of fact I have my browser block most of them...

This is an ad by an affiliate marketer (notice the "affil" text in the ad). Which means its some average schmuck that made and paid for that ad alone. In fact most of those ads for ebay and amazon you see on google are actually done by other people and not made by the company whatsoever.

The telltale sign is the variation of the word affiliate that is required to be included in the ad. (aff, affil, affiliate etc.)

i never evn noticed the affil until you pointed it out! like the fjords? lol

yeah, ebay will def market anything if it increases profits

I wish the ad would grab thread titles... I would have loved to see "Crazy Toilet Dweller: get it now on E-bay!"

From what I see after typing tsunami in ebay's search is all the proceeds are for tsunami relief efforts.

These are affiliate advertisers, not eBay. People make money advertising for eBay usually through some third party program like Commission Junction. The more sales conversions they make, the more money they make. People make tens of thousands of dollars a month doing this. These ads are out of eBay's hands and reflect the attempt of the general public to make money.

It's AUTOMATED.

Jesus.

It takes the popular words from the page you're viewing and creates an ad around them.

only in america

Actually, I don't think that's true. In a lot of other places, it's much worse.

Nerdling, the ads themselves are not generated automatically. Every ad is made individually, but delivered automatically depending on the keywords entered.

[edit on 1/2/2005 by Kageki]

Originally posted by Nerdling
It's AUTOMATED.

Jesus.

It takes the popular words from the page you're viewing and creates an ad around them.

Nerdling, i'm not talking about the 'subject related auto-generation' of ads. I'm talking about the morality of these companies who seek to profit from human misery.

Even if we go into the affiliates debate, the point is what do people see as the source?
www.eBay.com.

Ever heard the phrase, "the buck stops here".

Sanc'.

Originally posted by DanD9
It just puts your words you search for behind "for sale".
Do like kidfinger said, except google search for "slaves". Usually, it says Slaves for Sale, or Slaves on Ebay.

He's right!! Look:

Ye Old eBay