An eBay executive slammed Amazon's practice of "repricing" during an interview published in Forbes. 

The interview with eBay's head PR executive Dan Tarman wasn't meant to be provocative - it was a piece called Doing Well By Doing Good, "to learn about how the pioneering e-commerce brand continues to differentiate itself through brand purpose, since its inception more than two decades ago." 

Tarman took a dig at the rival marketplace when answering a question about eBay's brand, though he did not mention the company by name.

Here's the exchange:

eBay must adjudicate SNAD claims, but when eBay sides with buyers, it benefits in more ways than one thanks to a new policy it announced last month as part of the Summer Seller Update. This creates a conflict of interest, one seller asserted in a question submitted to eBay executive Bob Kupbens for an upcoming Q&A video chat.

The issue is more important than ever as sellers feel squeezed by eBay practices around returns - some sellers say eBay is doing less to protect them from buyers who file false SNAD claims (Item Not as Described) to avoid paying ... Read More

eBay sellers have questions for eBay executive Bob Kupbens ranging from eBay's return policies to the numerous glitches that have hit the site of late.

Kupbens, in charge of the seller experience, will take questions during a live Facebook video chat on June 27. However, this is eBay's version of an Ask Me Anything session, so questions will be pre-screened.

Sellers are taking advantage of the opportunity by asking detailed questions. One that struck a nerve with other sellers was more of a cry for help than a question and received 6 comments from other sellers:

That's a tweet from this morning from Woot founder Matt Rutledge (who sold the company to Amazon) and who now runs Meh.com. If you click through to his tweet, you can see the messages eBay sent him containing items it thinks he might be interested in based on searches he'd saved long ago.

We also experienced this eBay "haunting" this morning, which we reported on Ecommerce EKG. eBay sent us a "saved search" email with current listings for ... Read More