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EBay Drops Charges for Developers Network

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-does-seem-to-be-more-popular dept.

Rob writes "Seeking to make its presence in third-party rebranded commerce applications more ubiquitous, eBay Inc is lifting all of its API and transaction charges for developers. It's the latest action a series of moves to expand the eBay developer community. Last summer, the company opened up a collaborative website, the eBay Community Codebase, to provide a hosted project developer site for anyone willing to open source their code."

2 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Codebase Link by GreggyBUIUC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since its not in the headline:

    https://www.codebase.ebay.com

  2. Re:Does anybody use Ebay anymore? by duffbeer703 · · Score: 4, Informative

    EBay doesn't give a shit. I discovered a scam, which is still going on two years later, where theives would build webs of bogus accounts and buy/sell stupid shit like $0.99 recipies and similar items between accounts. I found one account that was buying 50-60 <$5 items a day for a few weeks. They leave comments like "Great TV, supar ebayer A++++++" and "Laptop shipped on time A++++++ ASSET TO EBAY" for rolls of yarn or supermarket coupons.

    Then they stop all eBay activity.

    And then the thief doesn't do anything for about 3-4 months. At that point a regular user cannot get any details on the users history... Then the guy starts selling nonexistent laptops, iPods, etc.

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