Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On 269
An anonymous reader sends along a posting from the Grooveking blog on a group of Stanford students who got together to help promote Firefox and ended up releasing a long overdue eBay Toolbar for Firefox before Mozilla and eBay could release their jointly developed extension in Europe. Mozilla's COO said the preemptive release of the eBay Toolbar had ruffled some feathers among European eBay execs. "Besides basic search features, it removes external ads on the site and allows users to see thumbnail pictures on ALL search items, even those sellers didn't pay for. An eBay toolbar has been long overdue... eBay can't be too enthusiastic about this toolbar since it cuts directly into its main sources of revenue: ads and thumbnail fees. But eBay users get a really good deal."
Quote source? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Embarrass? (Score:2, Informative)
ToS violation, not DCMA (Score:1, Informative)
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreemen
In other words, you're accessing their content without accessing their site, which is a violation of their ToS. This is theft. They will accordingly code their site to block any access from this new "toolbar".
Re:ToS violation, not DCMA (Score:5, Informative)
Violation of ToS =! Theft. Say that over and over again until you get that absurd idea out of your head.
If they want to block access from the toolbar (probably impossible since the processing is done on the end-user's computer), let them go ahead. But the end user is under no obligation to stop using said toolbar.
Re:"Ignore" sellers? (Score:5, Informative)
Also, I am in favor of not showing either party the feedback that the other user left until they have both left it. That would almost completely eliminate retaliatory feedback.
PS: I am a seller, and I actually do leave positive feedback as soon as the (proper) payment arrives.
Re:Where's the Toolbar? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:"Ignore" sellers? (Score:3, Informative)
fees? What does that have to do with the Toolbar? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Makes sense of this slogan (Score:5, Informative)
I'm sorry but TFS is just wrong. Paypal is their main source of revenue. Believe me, double dipping by charging both sellers and buyers a fee to use the service is very lucrative.
Re:Embarrass? (Score:3, Informative)