Thrown out of Ebay Live for wearing Google shirt

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by edgeztv • 19 years ago

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auka• 19 years ago

eBay needs to get their act together. This is not their best marketing move...

pg2• 19 years ago

If this is true it's a bad sign for eBay. Such heavy-handedness is always correlated with major suckage in the product.

edgeztv6• 19 years ago

I think I tried to convey that exact sentiment to their VP at one point during that unpleasant encounter. And yes, it's a true story. The Auctomatics can vouch we were there :)

andreyf2• 19 years ago

How ironic that it's the VP of Marketing that kicked them out.

migpwr3• 19 years ago

Ebay made the right call, I'd throw them out also if they pulled that nonsense...

transburgh4• 19 years ago

What nonsense?

sfo• 19 years ago

their product

davidw• 19 years ago

I think it's pretty smart marketing in some ways. People remember that kind of stuff, and it's getting them a lot of attention. I remember at Linuxcare when the head of marketing (who was actually one of the brightest guys at the company, except for Andrew Tridgell of course) pulled some kind of stunt, of which I dont' remember the details, with the implication that Linuxcare was the place to go for Redhat support. Of course we had to pull it, but it got on all the news sites and got the name out.

dmf2• 19 years ago

I just googled "Google Checkout." It looks interesting.

If it wasn't for Gary Briggs, Chief Marketing Officer for eBay North America, I'd still be blissfully ignorant.

Harj• 19 years ago

If you interested in knowing what happened in a couple of the major panel discussions during the event, you can read our notes here: https://auctomatic.com/user/ebaylive

The Q&A with the ebay execs was v interesting

Thrown out of Ebay Live for wearing Google shirt

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