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About ETS
The whole sad, sordid, successful story
In 2003, Steve, a New Jersey police officer, won an auction for "new" set of speakers, but that's not what he received. "They looked like they had been gnawed on by a wild animal," he famously said. The seller refused to exchange the items or refund his money and eBay said the bad deal wasn’t their responsibility.
He founded ebayersthatsuck.com, an eBay watchdog website, and discovered
he wasn't the only victim. Lurid stories of auction rip-offs poured in from hapless
victims everywhere: a woman whose wedding was tainted by moth-ridden tuxedoes, a
collector duped out of a $16,000 vintage Spiderman comic, and the family-man trucker
who lost a whopping $27,000 buying a rig that didn't exist. "EBay seems to dance
around the ethics issues like a shoeless man in a rattlesnake pit,” lamented one
victim after forking over $1,400 for a phony art vase. The site grew in popularity
and soon Steve found himself being interviewed everywhere from Court TV to newspapers
as far away as South Africa.
Next up was an alliance with his writer/editor brother Ed that resulted in a book, Dawn of the eBay Deadbeats, and a press juggernaut.
Today eBayers That Suck (or ETS as it's known on the street) offers original commentary, camaraderie, and entertainment for the vibrant eBay community.
We believe in the potential that eBay was built upon and we're committed to fighting fraud, exchanging cash-generating success stories, and keeping an open, honest discussion on how to make money via online auctions.
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