eBay and some former executives have agreed to pay a couple $56m (£42m) after a campaign of harassment in retaliation for their online criticism of the firm. Other actions perpetrated against the Steiners included eBay executives sending them a funeral wreath and harassing messages on Twitter (the social media platform now known as X). Seven former eBay executives pleaded guilty to the criminal charges between 2022 and 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The same year, he sent eBay's top communications executive a text message about Ina Steiner that said: "Take her down." eBay said: "What the Steiners were subjected to by former eBay employees in 2019 was wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened."