A Massachusetts couple who endured one of the most disturbing corporate harassment campaigns in American legal history have settled their civil lawsuit against eBay Inc., drawing a confidential close to a case that exposed a poisonous culture inside one of Silicon Valley's biggest names.
David and Ina Steiner, who run EcommerceBytes, an online newsletter focused on the e-commerce industry based in Natick, Massachusetts, filed suit in 2021 alleging that eBay had engaged in a conspiracy to 'intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorise, stalk and silence them' in order to 'stifle their reporting on eBay.'
