Ebay indeed rejected the rumors, but that's a good thing in my opinion. We should be working towards marketplaces disrupting censorship enabling platforms such as Ebay.

It looks like Ebay advertised on Consensus just for the sake of generating easy and very cheap global exposure. Ebay potentially accepting crypto has been all over the news even locally, so if that was indeed their main incentive, then it worked out well. It's called smart marketing.