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eBay PWNs Google

Google may be slowly taking over the world, but that didn’t stop eBay from putting it in its place. When Google invited eBay sellers attending the eBay Live! party in Boston this week to the Google Checkout Freedom Party — which was designed to poke fun at eBay’s restrictive policies — eBay got a little upset.

So what do you do if you’re the world’s largest auction site and the world’s largest search engine tries to make fun of you? Simple, you hit ‘em where it hurts: the wallet. eBay took down all U.S. advertising on Google, which led Google to cancel the party in order to make eBay happy again.

eBay puts Google in its place

Nothing like a good ole fashioned PWNing.

18 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. MyAvatars 0.2

    Don’t chastise your customers!

  2. MyAvatars 0.2

    Wow major Pwnage.

  3. MyAvatars 0.2

    Does Google really just expect someone to open up their system to a direct competitor?

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    Jason

    Don’t be fucking lame would be a good motto.

  5. MyAvatars 0.2

    pwnt

    pwnt

  6. MyAvatars 0.2

    suprised Google were so sensitive. They make so much money anyway.

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    Richard

    Thanks for the no context post. Excellent “work”.

    Questions: What are ebay’s restrictive policies? Policies for what? What you can sell? Who you can sell to? What your picture can consist of? In what way are their policies restrictive? How was the checkout freedom party designed to poke fun at the policies?

  8. MyAvatars 0.2

    And I thought Google was the one running the show, gofigure.

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    mojo

    Ebay ad spend is like minimum $100million dollars a year…

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    nicerobot

    Who owned who? Seems to me this emphasizes Google’s point about eBay.

    F*** eBay, the scammers paradise!

  11. MyAvatars 0.2

    FeeBay sucks, almost as much as guidos suck. Yea you heard right Guidos SUCK.

    Find out more here:
    http://yetanotherawesomeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/excerpts-from-book-things-which-suck.html

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    Carin

    what people will do for satisfaction

  13. MyAvatars 0.2

    Yeah… Heres a free site that is trying to go the opposite of Ebay.

    http://www.blujay.com

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    Christine

    Way to put your foot down eBay

  1. Stirrdup - Jun 14th, 2007

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