I first learned of this situation reading a post at auctionbytes blog,

"Disconnect at eBay as It Moves toward Amazonification" on 06-21-2008

"During the keynote session, Lorrie Norrington spoke about cherishing small sellers like Denise from good-dog-jack, and relayed her experience of buying a pair of shoes on eBay and then selling them to a buyer in France. It would appear they still want those eBay-like experiences, but on an Amazon-like platform."

It has been revealed that Ms Norrington lied-   either in the body of her listing, or else at the speech where she tried to use her shoe sale to talk about "Trust" at ebay Live! 2008 in Chicago.

It is also obvious that she failed to disclose her status as an ebay employee. Further, it is clear that she was a deadbeat bidder on at least one occasion, having earned a negative feedback for that.

Anyway, this was also posted about on the ebay forums where they deleted that post in record time, but not fast enough. It made it into a couple more threads and to auctionbytes before it could be buried. Yet we know that ebay tried to bury that. It also went "POOF" from the cache at google in the blink of an aye. Very strange indeed.
The title of that thread, as seen in the video was:
Why Is This Ebay Employee Allowed To Sell Without Following Employee Policy


Here is the original listing url:
Tod's Women's Loafers New in Box Size 7.5 (EU Size 3)

screencap of that listing

The discussion at ebay forums where I found the screencaps used in the video.

Screencap of that thread

The feedback profile 200 results page of ebay member westie0721 (148)
screencapture of that 200 results page

screencap (Note that I use Firefox browser with Greasemonkey extension and 'ebay Hacks' script, which adds 2 new tabs to feedback page and opens toolhause negs in a new frame on the same page.
(You may also note that ebay feedback only goes back so far now, depriving users of the entire profile BTW.

here is the Toolhaus.org feedback received page


Screencap of another discussion of the issue on ebay forums
Ebay employee has auction and doesn't identify them as employee?

Update:
This was not there when I made the live screenrecording portion of the video, but be sure to view the Feedback Left For Others profile.
Here it is at Toolhaus.
And, of course the obligatory screeencap, in case there are any 'accidents'

I really don't have much more to say about this.
I think the video says IT all

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/26911

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