And in one final, last act of utter desperation, eBay’s Johnny Ho has introduced a 180-day PayPal "buyer protection" (“rental”) package; needless to say, online merchants are now dropping the clunky “PreyPal” so fast one could be excused for thinking it had been infected with the Ebola virus.

Well done Johnny Ho! With any luck you won’t see out your period of notice; indeed, if eBay’s board had had any sense—which obviously they don’t have—they would have had their security team frog march you out the door immediately (if not years ago), before you could add further to the extensive damage to eBay that you have already done.

However, given the large amount of (unearned) money you have been paid while effectively destroying the eBay marketplace, it certainly is true that anyone can make good in the U.S.—but, in your case, at a very great cost to the eBay shareholders …

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