531 - The eBay Stalking Scandal
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
This is the frankly unbelievable story of how far eBay employees went in 2019 to deal with both a small company and a Twitter user being critical of their CEO and company. Harassment, intimidation, doxing, cockroaches and a dead pig... welcome to the eBay stalking scandal, featuring special guest Kirsty Webeck!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:14 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/technology/ebay-cockroaches-stalking-scandal.html
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/
https://www.ebayinc.com/company/our-history/
https://www.britannica.com/money/eBay
https://www.ebayinc.com/company/our-purpose-in-action/
https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-cyberstalking-security-staff-settle-execs-face-trial/
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Block. Happy Block. And what better way to celebrate Block? And 10 years of do go on than hitting the road. We are doing some shows around Australia and New Zealand. All the shows have sold out. So we've added extra shows in Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. You know, you never know. You never know people are going to want to come. And people are coming all over Australia and New Zealand for us. |
| 0:25.6 | That's right. |
| 0:26.2 | And if you want to come to go to dogoonpod.com. |
| 0:30.0 | We'll see you there. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky, and as always, I'm here with Matt Stewart. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello, Dave Warnocky. |
| 0:52.9 | Hi, Matt Stewart. |
| 0:54.3 | So good to be back with you, Cobra. Great to be here with you. And this week, we are joined by a very special friend of the show. Kirsty Webeck's back. Yeah, hello. Hi, Kirsty. So good to have you in Kirsty. I know you're busy leading up to the big festival season. It's also Christmas Eve. Can you believe that? |
| 1:10.9 | Merry Christmas. |
| 1:11.7 | Merry Christmas to you. |
| 1:12.8 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:14.1 | It is Christmas Eve and it's my favorite day of the year because each year I send a message in the family group chat that says Merry Christmas, |
| 1:23.5 | comma, Eve and to all of you as well. |
| 1:28.4 | And Eve is a family member? |
| 1:30.2 | Nope. |
| 1:32.7 | But I've done it for about 15 years. |
| 1:38.0 | So does it get any response? |
| 1:40.4 | Standard response? |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.2 | I mean, it used to kill in the family group chat. |
| 1:44.8 | It gets a few love hearts. |
| 1:46.7 | It still gets love hearts. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah, now it's just nostalgia. |
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