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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6809149/
Mildly interesting article. This is my favorite paragraph....
“We all have our ways of getting a bit of gear,” he said, using a slang term for steroids, “but buying it on eBay would be the absolute dogs’ bollocks last thing you should do.”
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Geez... and they wonder why the stock is dropping.
The bad press that ebay gets is unreal.
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Bad press? Any other site where steroids or other prescription drugs were being sold to someone without a prescription would be under heavy scrutiny by the Feds, if not shut down for these drugs continuing to show up and be getting a massive amount of bad publicity.
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I find it strange that the sales "came to a screeching halt last week" at the end of the MSNBC investigation,
and yet last summer some senator was *****ing about it in hearings, and specifically cited eBay as an easy source for steroids.
“Until you brought this to our attention, it wasn’t getting as close a look as it should have,” said Rob Chestnut, an eBay vice president, former federal prosecutor and the company’s point man on rules enforcement. “They were titling it as a book and we were missing it. That’s our bad.”
"our bad"??????? oooops?
WTF is eBay thinking?
<sigh> It's all about the money, isn't it?
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Exactly, Low-Tide. Bad press is a monumental understatement.