A former eBay Motors manager says in a Sarbanes-Oxley suit that eBay fired him in 2015 for reporting fraud and then sabotaged his next job. His complaint treats those later references as part of the retaliation, so what managers say about a former employee after the exit now sits beside the firing itself.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence35
Used GPUs with plenty of VRAM keep 40 to 60 percent of their value while RTX 50-series prices climb as much as 39 percent, Engadget reports. For a team planning a refresh, the old card's sale price belongs in the budget, though few models sell above list.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Amazon is putting eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart orders inside Seller Central for US sellers at no extra cost. Sellers who price lower elsewhere would be relying on an executive's spoken data pledge while an FTC case alleging Amazon punishes such sellers heads to trial in March 2027.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Amazon's robots.txt now disallows ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot, and in ZDNET's tests the shopping agent sent a buyer to Walmart, eBay and a retailer called Soaplicity instead of Amazon listings.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
Victoria Medvec says the party who moves first usually does better, but not before a job offer exists. Caio Waisman's eBay data adds that the side who already made the offer gains again by answering slowly.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives66
- Confidence45
The 3,821% Pokemon return Fortune cites for 2004 to 2025 compounds to about 19% a year. It belongs to the category. Peter Levin told the magazine he has no estimate of what his half million cards are worth.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+55
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
With no completed sales, nine live asks running from £35 to £240 and no route to the £26.99 shop price, a self-hosted pricing tool proposed £35.39 and recorded the missing check only in a log line.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
What Anthropic wanted from Decart was cheaper serving, not a new product line, and the walk-away leaves the buy-versus-license question on compute efficiency sitting exactly where operators keep finding it.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
KREAM's card transaction value grew 208-fold in seven months on 131-fold volume. That makes this a participation story rather than an appreciation one. And 77% of that value sits inside a single licensed IP.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
OpenAI says the model never sees your password. BeyondTrust's Morey Haber told ZDNet that misses the point, because once the session exists an attacker can work inside it with all of your entitlements.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
More than 160,000 "empty box" listings on eBay have turned packaging into a priced credential. Credentials that trade apart from the goods they certify become a fraud surface.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives57
- Confidence55
A dev.to writeup argues the expensive failure in eBay search scraping is not blocking but promoted listings sharing the same container as real ones, silently billed per row.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives84
- Confidence41
AMC's filings show 73% of tickets sold online in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2013. Scarcity and a failed resale market for 70mm Imax seats just sent premium demand back to the physical box office.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
The retailer handles shipping, inspection and credit. Engadget's price checks suggest the fee for that service runs from $120 to $165 per card.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence54
An open eBay market prices deductible-looking gambling losses at fractions of a cent on the dollar. The platform says it removes listings promoting improper uses. Preparers are the other exposure.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
Merchants put Amazon at about half of sales and TikTok Shop at 5 to 15 percent, while crediting TikTok for the growth in every other channel.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence52