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by blhack 4682 days ago
Yeah, like those idiots at ebay who started out as a pez dispenser collection.

Anybody who trusts THOSE idiots with their money deserves to lose it.

Howabout those dorks that started out as a school project and went on to become google.

You'd be double, double stupid to work for, trust money to, advertise on that stupid dorky company that started off as a hott or not clone.

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> The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebay#History

Your already spurious analogy is extra terrible because nobody deposits hundreds of thousands of dollars with eBay.

Paypal, OTOH, started out as a financial service and was designed as one from the beginning, and proven itself reliable. But even so, most people know not to leave large amounts of money in their Paypal accounts, and to make regular deposits into a proper bank account.