The eBay Stalking Scandal:

When Corporate Went Psycho

By: Jessica Jones

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Fortune 500 Company. A Suburban Couple. A Campaign of Terror.

If you read this in a novel, you wouldn’t believe it. But the pig mask, the cockroaches, and the funeral wreath were all real.

In 2019, Ina and David Steiner were just a quiet couple living in Natick, Massachusetts. They ran EcommerceBytes, a niche newsletter covering the online resale industry. They were critical of corporate policies, but they were hardly power brokers.

Yet, inside the glass walls of eBay Headquarters in Silicon Valley, they were viewed as an existential threat.

Under pressure from Wall Street and paranoid about leaks, eBay’s C-Suite issued a vague but deadly directive: "Take her down."

What followed was not a lawsuit. It was not a PR campaign. It was a corporate-funded black ops mission designed to psychologically torture two journalists into silence.

When the Boardroom Goes Psycho

The eBay Stalking Scandal: When Corporate Went Psycho is a gripping micro-history that exposes the most bizarre and terrifying chapter in Silicon Valley history. This fast-paced narrative takes you from the high-pressure executive offices of San Jose to the terrified living room of the Steiners, detailing a harassment campaign that escalated from online trolling to biological warfare.

Inside, you will uncover the true story of:

• The Executive Order: How a frustrated text message from a CEO—"If you are ever going to take her down... now is the time"—was interpreted by a security team as a license to destroy lives.

• The Campaign of Terror: The systematic arrival of disturbing deliveries at the Steiners' home, including a bloody pig mask from the movie Saw, a box of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, and pornography sent to their neighbors.

• The "White Knight" Deception: The twisted plan to terrorize the couple so badly that eBay’s own security team could swoop in to "save" them, thereby buying their trust and silence.

• The Black Ops: How a team of former police and intelligence officers turned a corporate security department into a private Stasi, using GPS trackers, physical surveillance, and burner phones to hunt a middle-aged couple.

• The Unraveling: The incredible mistake—a simple license plate photo—that brought the FBI to eBay’s doorstep and shattered the "plausible deniability" of the executives at the top.

The Dark Side of the Valley

This is not just a crime story; it is a chilling look at corporate culture gone wrong. It asks the terrifying question: What happens when a trillion-dollar company decides it is above the law?

Perfect for fans of bad blood corporate exposes, true crime thrillers, and tech scandals, this 25,000-word micro-history reads like a movie but hits with the weight of investigative journalism.

Discover the scandal that eBay tried to bury.

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