{"id":4484,"date":"2026-07-29T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:39:33","slug":"ebay-pays-56m-to-couple-targeted-in-cockroach-harassment-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"eBay Pays $56M to Couple Targeted in Cockroach Harassment Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p>eBay will pay nearly $56 million to a Massachusetts couple who said the company tried to terrorize them into stopping their reporting with a campaign of threats, stalking, live cockroaches, and a bloody pig Halloween mask. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends more than six years of criminal and civil litigation brought by David and Ina Steiner, founders of the e-commerce newsletter EcommerceBytes. The deal provides $48.7 million in compensation, plus another $7 million in charitable donations, including to First Amendment organizations, and contains no confidentiality provision. \u201cDavid and I were on the same page that this settlement should and must be made public\u2014as victims who want to prevent something like this from ever happening to anyone else, and as reporters who believe in transparency,\u201d Ina Steiner said. \u201cWe hope that this case will serve as a deterrent.\u201d The Steiners said senior eBay employees sought to \u201cintimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them\u201d to \u201cstifle their reporting on eBay.\u201d Along with live cockroaches, they said they received spiders, a funeral wreath, and other disturbing deliveries. eBay again apologized, saying the conduct was \u201cwrong, reprehensible and should never have happened.\u201d Seven eBay employees received jail terms of up to five years over the campaign of harassment after criminal charges were brought in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4478\">Right-Wing Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of \u201860 Minutes\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read it at <span>Financial Times<\/span><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay will pay nearly $56 million to a Massachusetts couple who said the company tried to terrorize them into stopping their reporting with a campaign of threats, stalking, live cockroaches, and a bloody pig Halloween mask. 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