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Groupons Rise and eBays Decline By Eric Jackson (Choice snippets, be sure to read the entire thing. ^) ...This environment should benefit eBay, as well. While pop culture portrays eBay as a site populated by collectors and hobbyists, small businesses have always been the backbone of its sales. Th...

Alipay snatches online payment crown from PayPalAlipay.com Co Ltd, the online payment subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has become the world's largest online payment company, beating PayPal, said Wang Gang, general manager of the merchant division of Alipay.com. Alipay has more than 500 million re...

Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook Erick Schonfeld 23 hours ago Bringing social commerce to Facebook is a big opportunity attracting a lot of capital these days. Social swap meet Yardsellr just raised a $5 million series A financing, led by Accel Par...

Who could have ever seen that coming? eBay Falls off List of Top-visited Websites in 2010

Maybe it's just me, but this sure seems to add a lot of weight to the notion that ebay is trying to squeeze out small sellers. (That would be in addition to all the other things which we know are wrong... ads on seller's listings, rolling blackouts, unlawful money holds, lopsided feedback with skewed bu...

eBay Exec Lorrie Norrington Steps Down

PayPal Practices Driving Sellers to Seek Alternatives PayPal has established itself as the de facto method of transacting money on the Internet. It is ruffling some feathers, though, with business and dispute resolution practices that seem to be focused on making sure PayPal gets to hang onto mon...

Facebook Value Tops EBay, Becomes No. 3 U.S. Web Company By Brian Womack - Mon Nov 15 Facebook Inc.s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors. Facebooks stock is tra...

Yet another stellar example of why ebaY/PayPal should be avoided at all costs, whether as buyer, seller or even surfer. Why I will Never Shop On Ebay Again57 By LSpel If you're asking yourself "Should I buy a computer off ebay?", you might want to read this first. For my husbands Birthday we...

Oui, oui, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! LeBoncoin.fr surpasses eBay.fr Posted on: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:51:23 EST Symbols: SUAMF Dec 27, 2010 (CORPORATE IT UPDATE via COMTEX) -- 27 December 2010 - French classified ads website LeBoncoin.fr has managed to establish itself on the local market over t...

What Happened To All The Cars On eBay Motors? Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 5:40 PM eBay Motors seems to have lost it's allure. The other day I was researching a 2010 Honda on eBay Motors, and was surprised that there was only 34, 2010 used Hondas on the whole site. That number seemed really low especiall...

eBay Traffic at 6-Year Low for March Data By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com 15, 2010 Reading AuctionBytes: eBay Traffic at 6-Year Low for March Data eBay's traffic for the month of March was at a 6-year low compared to previous March numbers. Data provided by Nielsen show that eBay received 49.6 milli...

Why fail just once, when you can fail over and over again? Kijiji begone: EBay rebranding U.S. classified siteTue Mar 30, 2010 (Reuters) - EBay Inc is rebranding its Kijiji classifieds business in the United States as eBayClassifieds.com, as it strives to replace Craigslist.com as the dominant p...

From Motley Fool: (talking about ebaY) "This company is now doomed. The success has gone to their head. I have been buyer and seller at ebay. I just cannot see where they will make money from. Here are some of the softcomings I see: 1. For items costing less than $50, the total fees eat up 10% of sale....

What Amazon Will Be Like in 2030By Pascal-Emmanuel GobryAmazon today is very different from what it was 10 years ago. In 2001, Amazon was still pretty much an online bookstore. Today not only does it sell almost everything under the sun, but it's also a huge cloud computing company, a media seller and...

eBay Focused Squarely On New Goods, Not Second-Hand eBay rose to fame as a place where people could sell second-hand goods via an auction process, but these days the ecommerce giant is concentrating most of its energies on stores that sell new items using its Buy It Now process. What does that mean fo...

Golly gee whiz! These banks have the abilty to completely crush paypal. Just imagine... A few creative TV commercials highlighting PP's many, many faults and they are toast! New cash transfer service rivals PayPal NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- You will soon be able to pay your friend back for dinner or gi...

June 03, 2011PayPal Will End Partnership with Alibaba By Ed Silverstein , TechZone360 Contributor PayPal will end its partnership with Alibaba after a year, according to company statements. A document seen by Reuters suggests PayPal was "unhappy with AliExpress's rising consumer busine...

ebay CEO John Donahoe Beats Disruptive Innovation and Turnaround uploaded by: MajorDisruption Feb 11, 2011John Donahoe ebay CEO policies hurt sellers and let scammers get free stuff. ebay sucks. paypal sucks

Car acclaimed as Buddy Holly's fails to fetch asking price on eBay A piece of Buddy Holly history is still on the auction block. Last week, Lubbock collector Bill Clements said he had restored Holly's 1958 Chevy Impala and was selling it on E-Bay with co-owner Peggy Sue Gerron. After 39 bids, the auct...

Even some of the analysts are finally catching on... From Skip McGrath:Taxes and The eBay SellerThe Online Seller's News, June 6, 2011, Volume 11, No. 11 4. Is Management Trying To Kill The "eBay Community?" Whenever I write an article like this I always worry that new and small eBay sel...

What doomed the online auction?Bidding online for everything from designer jeans to appliances was supposed to overhaul commerce as we knew it. What happened?By Kim Peterson on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 4:18 PMOnline auctions were supposed to be the next big thing. At least that's what people thought in...

Copious Looks To Be The EBay Of The Facebook Eraby The Associated PressNEW YORK June 15, 2011, 03:01 pm ET A group of Silicon Valley veterans are building a shopping service around the idea that Facebook's real-identity system is good for building trust in online commerce. Copious lets people see wh...

eBay Eyes Twitter and YouTube for Social Commerce Features By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com June 16, 2011 eBay could be eyeing Twitter and YouTube to help it take advantage of the rise in social activities among shoppers as it launches new social features to the eBay marketplace. In an exclusive...

Jun 24, 2011, 3:27 PMWhy It's Time to Move Your PayPal Balance Investors in online payment site PayPal's money market fund will soon have to find somewhere else to stash their cash. PayPal, a unit of eBay, filed forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday announcing its intention to...

Why Apple, Google And EBay Will Slash And Burn Investors Jun. 27 2011 - 12:28 pm snippet, emphasis mine: EBay (EBAY): Over the long term I think that EBAY has the opportunity to be mediocre at best and obsolete at worst. The company has done little to diversify away from being an online auction site....

Guess Which Online Retailer Rich People Like Best Julie Zeveloff | Jul. 8, 2011, 12:14 PM Wealthy Americans, those who make more than $250,000 per year, overwhelmingly chose Amazon.com as their online retailer of choice, according to a new survey from Unity Marketing. Over 45% of "ultra-aff...

Why You Should Ditch PayPal and Use These Other Services to Send People Money Uploaded with ImageShack.us Gee, that's a pretty big site with lots and lots of readers.Hopefully we shall see more like this. ;p Your path to disbamboozlement begins here: [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

from seekingalpha finance blog... ...Meanwhile, the salad days for eBay Inc. (EBAY) are over and done with. The original concept was fantastic. There was a time when you could sell your old stereo system and get a premium price for it from some sucker. But a strange thing happened over time -- eBay bec...

VW Golf, one previous owner, royal blue: Kate's old car is auctioned on eBay - but receives NO bids So...

even DdoS attacks on ebay motors critic sites aren't helping.

The world knows sleazebay motors is nothing but one big scam-trap, and a place to avoid like the plague!

Ebay bid falls short for family selling everything This is the 2nd time this item has been listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us

snippet from seeking alpha finance blog: eBay Inc. (EBAY): John Donahoe began working for eBay in 2005 as president of eBay Marketplaces.Since taking the role of CEO in March 2008, the stock has at times barely managed to stay above $10 a share.Needless to say, this is a far cry from its split-adjuste...

eBay Commercials Coming to Let You Know "It's Not Your Mother's eBay Anymore"July 21, 2011 EBay is kicking off a TV campaign in the next couple of months that is expected to help bring back consumers who may not have purchased anything on the site since the retailer was focused exclusively...

eBay Hikes Auction Fees To Discourage Auctions By Angus Kidman on July 26, 2011 at 11:00 am eBay Australia has made no secret of its desire to encourage new goods over second-hand ones, but this is the strongest evidence yet: from September 22, fees for auctions will be raised to match those charged fo...

Who's got time for eBay?By Patrick StoutThe McDonough County VoicePosted Aug 19, 2011 @ 10:09 AMMacomb, Ill. She calls it easy because she's been at it for nine years, but Becky Parker's recent talk for the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce on eBay sales seems to indicate the potential for a lot of work...

Ebay: A Lose/Lose/Lose SituationAuthor: J. D. Redmond - TheCyberati Published: August 23, 2011 at 7:01 pm Ebay. The ingenious concept that allows anyone who wants to sell something to not only a national but an international pool of potential buyers. The Ebay success stories of sellers making six...

Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again By Rick Aristotle Munarriz Posted 3:30PM 08/24/11There was a time when eBay (EBAY) was the cool place to shop. When Tickle Me Elmo dolls, classic vinyl records, and Beanie Babies ran scarce at area retailers, folks would flock to the auction marketplace to see if the...

Decay sets into eBay By Geoff Shearer February 12, 2008 12:04am INTERNET behemoth eBay is showing signs of decay. A planned strike by many of its sellers over higher fees and changes to feedback rules has competitors...

eBay: going, going, gone? Online auction giant eBay helped spawn an online nation of shopkeepers. But despite the current online retail boom, the company faces a fight to retain high-volume sellers, the lifeblood of its business. Seller concerns This week, the struggling company, seeki...

Etsy introduces direct checkout for US sellers, sidesteps PayPal

According to the chart at PSU, ebaY has lost 51.89% , over 75 million, of it's item listings in the last 24 hours. Uploaded with ImageShack.us hmmmm. the charts at medved are broken at the moment, no data shown for a few days now. I'm guessing this is a 'glitch' with ebay's feed or PSU's charts. Doubtful...

bwhahaha! Trouble in Paradise?

eBay's got a PayPal problem February 24, 2012: 12:07 PM ETAs long as eBay has been struggling to right itself, Paypal has been surging. Now, it may be in jeopardy too. By Janet Morrissey, contributor FORTUNE -- Through all eBay's struggles, PayPal has alwa...

eBay selling Rent.com to rental resource PrimediaBy Rachel King | March 22, 2012, 3:44pm PDT Summary: Primedia's rental resources are getting stronger now that it is buying Rent.com from eBay. eBay is selling off one of its properties as the online retailer continues to focus on and build out its m...

But not on sleazebay... Beetlejuice's 'Handbook For the Recently Deceased' Can Be Yours for $1,800 Heritage Auctions has the perfect gift for that recently deceased friend or loved one in your life: A real, hardbound copy of The Handbook for the Recently Deceased, the manual for ghosts that "...

Another Seller Swears Off eBay Forever By Laura Northrup on May 2, 2012 11:30 AM There was a time, around approximately 2001, when eBay was a global marketplace where you could easily and efficiently unload items with any market value that you wanted to get rid of. Now, it's more of a global flea market...

EBay's PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs By Danielle Kucera - 2012-10-13T04:01:00Z EBay Inc. (EBAY)'s PayPal is cutting as many as 400 jobs, or about 3 percent of the workforce, an effort by President David Marcus to reorganize the payment processor and trim costs, a person with knowledge of the...

eBay Has Turned Into A 'Fast Fashion Graveyard' It was once nearly impossible for the average person to buy an item from a designer's special collection for Target or H&M. Ambitious eBay merchants camped out for days and bought up everything they could once inside the store. For years, they've b...

Distro Issue 69: Can David Marcus fix PayPal's reputation? It's no secret that PayPal has had its fair share of speed bumps, but can a change in leadership help usher in a new era? The online payment outfit's new president, David Marcus, seeks to do just that and we offer a look at said task inside our wee...

TELL ME WHY EBAY 8,214 PAGE VIEWS DEC 2011 329 DEC 2012 ???Dec 14, 2012 10:52 AMCome on im waiting.I know its the Economy. No you have ran off buyers and sellers. With your New SEARCH !!!! Rest assured, ebaY management and their PR spin dept will keep things entertaining for you with diversions and t...

Ebay Shuts Down Instant Sale Service For Cash Trade-Ins On Phones And Other Gadgets Ebay, the online marketplace that recently added a redesign reminiscent of Pinterest to enhance a personalized experience for its users, is paring down in other areas. Among them, the site has discontinued its In...

hmmm... another failed ebay seller... Don't worry though, there's 10 more ready to replace them.

Thu Mar 7 2013 22:08:26 What Does Neiman Marcus Departure Mean for eBay?

The latest John Donahoe/WallStreet comedy: Is ebaY Losing Sellers? "No, not at all"

eBay Reformats Saved Seller FeatureEcommerceBytes (blog)Written by Ina Steiner ...I too have noticed a few telling indicators that there are fewer and fewer SELLERS on ebay--one has been via my SAVED SELLER list which for some time has had BOTH the indicator tag of NO ITEMS FOR SALE AT THIS TIME an...

Just checking Alexa for ebaY info. It seems to have dropped from #6 in the USA to #10 at the moment. Somehow still holding at #21 worldwide??? Other tells include overall traffic & reach down, time on site down, bounce up etc. Here's a composite showing ranks starting at January 2013 until now. Not...

A very curious move for an outfit obviously trying to recruit new sellers, yes? Don't forget to give ebaY some luv whenever and wherever possible.15,000 ebaY Sellers Get the Axe! ... According to the principles of ebaY mathematics, this would be a great way to recruit 150 thousand new sellers, sinc...

Thu Aug 8 2013 19:24:50eBay CEO Sees Excess Capacity in Newspaper Delivery Trucks By: Ina Steiner Did eBay's CEO just subtly slam Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post? John Donahoe granted an interview to BusinessWeek in which he shared his thoughts on the company's initiati...

Is ebaY Ending It's Trading Assistant Program? File this under R, for Rumor. rancid, and reaper. It seems that ebaY may be ending the Trading Assistant Program? click through for the 411.

First, THEN Inside eBay's Innovation Machine By Edward Cone January 2, 2007 Business is steady on an early December afternoon at the iSold It consignment store on Skeet Club Road in High Point, N.C., as customers drop off items to be sold on eBay. Bikes, electronics, power toolsa steady flow of s...

Keep 100% of Your Selling Price! Pay No Fees - Limited Time Offer! Bwhahahahahaha! This is a HUGE tell! Ebay is running a promo where sellers will save all listing fees when they agree to be paid with ebaY vouchers instead of real money.No Seller Fees ! Get Paid with ebaY Vouchers! Who Needs Cash Anyway...

Don't carve this into stone but we've received information suggesting that ebaY may already have, or may be getting ready to terminate or layoff employees. Hard to imagine, eh? More info if & when it becomes available. ...

quite an eye-opener. Why eBay Motors is losing tractionNovember 5, 2013 It appears that far fewer people are clicking tires these days for everyday vehicles on eBay Motors. The popular Web site is in transition. I know from buying and selling cars and classic car parts on eBay Motors what's changin...

eBay incurs $26 million in severance, other costs on restructuring 19 Nov, 2013 New York: E-commerce major eBay has said it incurred about $ 26 million in severance and other costs related to the company's restructuring efforts, which included reducing its global workforce by about 900 people. Th...

Is It Time for eBay to Bite the Bullet?by Chad Henage, The Motley FoolNov 24th 2013 9:00AM There comes a time in every stock's life when it must grow up and bite the bullet of adulthood. That's not to say the company won't continue to grow, or that the stock should be sold. In fact, there might be decades o...

They've been off and on a few times over now. Back to "off". It's hilarious seeing their TV ads, where sleazebay doesn't even get a mention. No one who sees them will be going anywhere near sleazebay. Cash Back is not available at eBay Unfortunately, eBay is not able to offer Cash Back at thi...

Comedy gold! eBay Loses Chief Architect of Cassini Search Engine That links to the blog there where the comments are open My own somewhat snarky summary:Does eBay Search Engine Architect's Ejection Confirm Cassini Castrophony?

Ah yes, the sweet sound of ebay decline!ebaY Bucks Rewards Butchered! A quick trip to the ebay forums shows members are not digging this spur-of-the-moment move too much. Keep up the great work sleazebay!

EBay says head of its enterprise business resigns Alistair Barr, USA TODAY 7:41 p.m. EST January 15, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO - EBay said Wednesday that the head of the e-commerce company's enterprise business is leaving after lackluster growth in 2013. Chris Saridakis, president of eBay Enterprise,...

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Decline Groupon’s Rise and eBay’s Decline (Preview)	CAPP	0	1305	Dec 7, 2010 by budnonymous
Groupons Rise and eBays Decline By Eric Jackson (Choice snippets, be sure to read the entire thing. ^) ...This environment should benefit eBay, as well. While pop culture portrays eBay as a site populated by collectors and hobbyists, small businesses have always been the backbone of its sales. Th...
Paypal decline payments Alipay snatches online payment crown from PayPal (Preview)	CAPP	0	1530	Nov 24, 2010 by budnonymous
Alipay snatches online payment crown from PayPalAlipay.com Co Ltd, the online payment subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has become the world's largest online payment company, beating PayPal, said Wang Gang, general manager of the merchant division of Alipay.com. Alipay has more than 500 million re...
ebay paypal decline alternatives Yardsellr Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook (Preview)	CAPP	0	2048	Nov 23, 2010 by budnonymous
Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook Erick Schonfeld 23 hours ago Bringing social commerce to Facebook is a big opportunity attracting a lot of capital these days. Social swap meet Yardsellr just raised a $5 million series A financing, led by Accel Par...
ebay decline traffic ratings eBay Falls off List of Top-visited Websites in 2010 (Preview)	CAPP	0	1490	Jan 7, 2011 by budnonymous
Who could have ever seen that coming? eBay Falls off List of Top-visited Websites in 2010
ebaY decline PPC AdCommerce eBay Kills Pay-Per-Click Ad Program (Preview)	CAPP	1	3053	Aug 27, 2017 by Griest45
Maybe it's just me, but this sure seems to add a lot of weight to the notion that ebay is trying to squeeze out small sellers. (That would be in addition to all the other things which we know are wrong... ads on seller's listings, rolling blackouts, unlawful money holds, lopsided feedback with skewed bu...
ebaY Lorrie Norrington executive decline exodus personnel eBay Exec Lorrie Norrington Steps Down (Preview)	CAPP	0	1570	Sep 23, 2010 by budnonymous
eBay Exec Lorrie Norrington Steps Down
PayPal decline customer service fail complaint policies PayPal Practices Driving Sellers to Seek Alternatives (Preview)	CAPP	0	1429	Sep 23, 2010 by budnonymous
PayPal Practices Driving Sellers to Seek Alternatives PayPal has established itself as the de facto method of transacting money on the Internet. It is ruffling some feathers, though, with business and dispute resolution practices that seem to be focused on making sure PayPal gets to hang onto mon...
ebaY decline Facebook Value Tops EBay, Becomes No. 3 U.S. Web Company (Preview)	CAPP	0	1277	Nov 16, 2010 by budnonymous
Facebook Value Tops EBay, Becomes No. 3 U.S. Web Company By Brian Womack - Mon Nov 15 Facebook Inc.s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors. Facebooks stock is tra...
complaint decline nightmare Why I will Never Shop On Ebay Again (Preview)	CAPP	0	1450	Dec 27, 2010 by budnonymous
Yet another stellar example of why ebaY/PayPal should be avoided at all costs, whether as buyer, seller or even surfer. Why I will Never Shop On Ebay Again57 By LSpel If you're asking yourself "Should I buy a computer off ebay?", you might want to read this first. For my husbands Birthday we...
ebay fail decline France LeBoncoin.fr surpasses eBay.fr (Preview)	CAPP	0	2713	Dec 27, 2010 by budnonymous
Oui, oui, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! LeBoncoin.fr surpasses eBay.fr Posted on: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:51:23 EST Symbols: SUAMF Dec 27, 2010 (CORPORATE IT UPDATE via COMTEX) -- 27 December 2010 - French classified ads website LeBoncoin.fr has managed to establish itself on the local market over t...
ebaymotors decline What Happened To All The Cars On eBay Motors? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1270	Aug 25, 2010 by budnonymous
What Happened To All The Cars On eBay Motors? Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 5:40 PM eBay Motors seems to have lost it's allure. The other day I was researching a 2010 Honda on eBay Motors, and was surprised that there was only 34, 2010 used Hondas on the whole site. That number seemed really low especiall...
ebaY traffic decline eBay Traffic at 6-Year Low for March Data (Preview)	CAPP	0	1691	Apr 16, 2010 by budnonymous
eBay Traffic at 6-Year Low for March Data By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com 15, 2010 Reading AuctionBytes: eBay Traffic at 6-Year Low for March Data eBay's traffic for the month of March was at a 6-year low compared to previous March numbers. Data provided by Nielsen show that eBay received 49.6 milli...
ebaY decline kijiji local classifieds Kijiji begone: EBay rebranding U.S. classified site (Preview)	CAPP	0	1437	Apr 10, 2010 by budnonymous
Why fail just once, when you can fail over and over again? Kijiji begone: EBay rebranding U.S. classified siteTue Mar 30, 2010 (Reuters) - EBay Inc is rebranding its Kijiji classifieds business in the United States as eBayClassifieds.com, as it strives to replace Craigslist.com as the dominant p...
ebay decline turnaround fail "This company is now doomed." (Preview)	CAPP	1	1699	Nov 12, 2008 by DragonDoll
From Motley Fool: (talking about ebaY) "This company is now doomed. The success has gone to their head. I have been buyer and seller at ebay. I just cannot see where they will make money from. Here are some of the softcomings I see: 1. For items costing less than $50, the total fees eat up 10% of sale....
ebay amazon ecommerce quotes paypal decline payments What Amazon Will Be Like in 2030 (Preview)	CAPP	0	1595	Apr 23, 2011 by budnonymous
What Amazon Will Be Like in 2030By Pascal-Emmanuel GobryAmazon today is very different from what it was 10 years ago. In 2001, Amazon was still pretty much an online bookstore. Today not only does it sell almost everything under the sun, but it's also a huge cloud computing company, a media seller and...
turnaround decline disruptive innovation ebay eBay Focused Squarely On New Goods, Not Second-Hand (Preview)	CAPP	0	1507	Apr 7, 2011 by budnonymous
eBay Focused Squarely On New Goods, Not Second-Hand eBay rose to fame as a place where people could sell second-hand goods via an auction process, but these days the ecommerce giant is concentrating most of its energies on stores that sell new items using its Buy It Now process. What does that mean fo...
Paypal ebay banks decline clearXchange payments New cash transfer service rivals PayPal (Preview)	CAPP	1	1576	Jun 1, 2011 by budnonymous
Golly gee whiz! These banks have the abilty to completely crush paypal. Just imagine... A few creative TV commercials highlighting PP's many, many faults and they are toast! New cash transfer service rivals PayPal NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- You will soon be able to pay your friend back for dinner or gi...
paypal decline fail alibaba aliexpress payments PayPal Will End Partnership with Alibaba (Preview)	CAPP	1	1559	Jun 3, 2011 by budnonymous
June 03, 2011PayPal Will End Partnership with Alibaba By Ed Silverstein , TechZone360 Contributor PayPal will end its partnership with Alibaba after a year, according to company statements. A document seen by Reuters suggests PayPal was "unhappy with AliExpress's rising consumer busine...
Donahoe ebay Paypal fail decline disruptive innovation turnaround video NPB beats criticism deadbeat ebay CEO John Donahoe Beats Disruptive Innovation and Turnaround (Preview)	CAPP	0	1822	Jun 3, 2011 by budnonymous
ebay CEO John Donahoe Beats Disruptive Innovation and Turnaround uploaded by: MajorDisruption Feb 11, 2011John Donahoe ebay CEO policies hurt sellers and let scammers get free stuff. ebay sucks. paypal sucks
ebay fail decline Buddy Holly automobile ebaymotors Car acclaimed as Buddy Holly's fails to fetch asking price on eBay (Preview)	CAPP	0	1587	Jun 7, 2011 by budnonymous
Car acclaimed as Buddy Holly's fails to fetch asking price on eBay A piece of Buddy Holly history is still on the auction block. Last week, Lubbock collector Bill Clements said he had restored Holly's 1958 Chevy Impala and was selling it on E-Bay with co-owner Peggy Sue Gerron. After 39 bids, the auct...
ebay policies fail decline community Is Management Trying To Kill The "eBay Community?" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1460	Jun 7, 2011 by budnonymous
Even some of the analysts are finally catching on... From Skip McGrath:Taxes and The eBay SellerThe Online Seller's News, June 6, 2011, Volume 11, No. 11 4. Is Management Trying To Kill The "eBay Community?" Whenever I write an article like this I always worry that new and small eBay sel...
ebay paypal policies decline auctions sniping shill bidding counterfeit What doomed the online auction? (Preview)	CAPP	0	2113	Jun 15, 2011 by budnonymous
What doomed the online auction?Bidding online for everything from designer jeans to appliances was supposed to overhaul commerce as we knew it. What happened?By Kim Peterson on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 4:18 PMOnline auctions were supposed to be the next big thing. At least that's what people thought in...
ebay decline competition alternates ecommerce Copious Looks To Be The EBay Of The Facebook Era (Preview)	CAPP	0	1374	Jun 15, 2011 by budnonymous
Copious Looks To Be The EBay Of The Facebook Eraby The Associated PressNEW YORK June 15, 2011, 03:01 pm ET A group of Silicon Valley veterans are building a shopping service around the idea that Facebook's real-identity system is good for building trust in online commerce. Copious lets people see wh...
ebay social networking twitter facebook decline turnaround disruptive innovation social networking eBay Eyes Twitter and YouTube for Social Commerce Features (Preview)	CAPP	0	1389	Jun 16, 2011 by budnonymous
eBay Eyes Twitter and YouTube for Social Commerce Features By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com June 16, 2011 eBay could be eyeing Twitter and YouTube to help it take advantage of the rise in social activities among shoppers as it launches new social features to the eBay marketplace. In an exclusive...
paypal decline money market investing finance policies Why It's Time to Move Your PayPal Balance (Preview)	CAPP	2	1542	Jun 28, 2011 by budnonymous
Jun 24, 2011, 3:27 PMWhy It's Time to Move Your PayPal Balance Investors in online payment site PayPal's money market fund will soon have to find somewhere else to stash their cash. PayPal, a unit of eBay, filed forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday announcing its intention to...
ebay paypal decline turnaround innovation finance investing Forbes Why Apple, Google And EBay Will Slash And Burn Investors (Preview)	CAPP	0	1481	Jun 28, 2011 by budnonymous
Why Apple, Google And EBay Will Slash And Burn Investors Jun. 27 2011 - 12:28 pm snippet, emphasis mine: EBay (EBAY): Over the long term I think that EBAY has the opportunity to be mediocre at best and obsolete at worst. The company has done little to diversify away from being an online auction site....
ebay Amazon decline ecommerce survey Guess Which Online Retailer Rich People Like Best? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1341	Jul 15, 2011 by budnonymous
Guess Which Online Retailer Rich People Like Best Julie Zeveloff \| Jul. 8, 2011, 12:14 PM Wealthy Americans, those who make more than $250,000 per year, overwhelmingly chose Amazon.com as their online retailer of choice, according to a new survey from Unity Marketing. Over 45% of "ultra-aff...
paypal risk decline lifehacker payments Why You Should Ditch PayPal and Use These Other Services to Send People Money (Preview)	CAPP	0	1369	Jul 16, 2011 by budnonymous
Why You Should Ditch PayPal and Use These Other Services to Send People Money Uploaded with ImageShack.us Gee, that's a pretty big site with lots and lots of readers.Hopefully we shall see more like this. ;p Your path to disbamboozlement begins here: [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
ebay decline finance investing fail turnaround The salad days for eBay Inc. are over and done with (Preview)	CAPP	0	1435	Jul 16, 2011 by budnonymous
from seekingalpha finance blog... ...Meanwhile, the salad days for eBay Inc. (EBAY) are over and done with. The original concept was fantastic. There was a time when you could sell your old stereo system and get a premium price for it from some sucker. But a strange thing happened over time -- eBay bec...
ebay ebaymotors decline fail Kate Middleton celebrities Kate Middleton's old car is auctioned on eBay - but receives NO bids (Preview)	CAPP	0	1298	Jul 18, 2011 by budnonymous
VW Golf, one previous owner, royal blue: Kate's old car is auctioned on eBay - but receives NO bids So... even DdoS attacks on ebay motors critic sites aren't helping. The world knows sleazebay motors is nothing but one big scam-trap, and a place to avoid like the plague!
ebay fail decline auction listing PR Why you should never trust ebay with your life (Preview)	CAPP	0	1339	Jul 18, 2011 by budnonymous
Ebay bid falls short for family selling everything This is the 2nd time this item has been listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us
ebay paypal Donahoe fail turnaround finance investment decline Donahoe makes the list of "5 CEOs Who Should Be Fired This Year" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1378	Jul 23, 2011 by budnonymous
snippet from seeking alpha finance blog: eBay Inc. (EBAY): John Donahoe began working for eBay in 2005 as president of eBay Marketplaces.Since taking the role of CEO in March 2008, the stock has at times barely managed to stay above $10 a share.Needless to say, this is a far cry from its split-adjuste...
ebay advertising commercials Donahoe turnaround fail decline eBay Commercials Coming to Let You Know "It's Not Your Mother's eBay Anymore" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1567	Jul 23, 2011 by budnonymous
eBay Commercials Coming to Let You Know "It's Not Your Mother's eBay Anymore"July 21, 2011 EBay is kicking off a TV campaign in the next couple of months that is expected to help bring back consumers who may not have purchased anything on the site since the retailer was focused exclusively...
ebay.au turnaround fee hikes decline eBay Hikes Auction Fees To Discourage Auctions (Preview)	CAPP	0	1267	Jul 26, 2011 by budnonymous
eBay Hikes Auction Fees To Discourage Auctions By Angus Kidman on July 26, 2011 at 11:00 am eBay Australia has made no secret of its desire to encourage new goods over second-hand ones, but this is the strongest evidence yet: from September 22, fees for auctions will be raised to match those charged fo...
ebay paypal policies profit time decline fail Who's got time for eBay? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1396	Aug 20, 2011 by budnonymous
Who's got time for eBay?By Patrick StoutThe McDonough County VoicePosted Aug 19, 2011 @ 10:09 AMMacomb, Ill. She calls it easy because she's been at it for nine years, but Becky Parker's recent talk for the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce on eBay sales seems to indicate the potential for a lot of work...
ebay turnaround fail decline customer service NPB DSR policies fee hikes paypal deadbeat Ebay: A Lose/Lose/Lose Situation (Preview)	CAPP	0	1539	Aug 24, 2011 by budnonymous
Ebay: A Lose/Lose/Lose SituationAuthor: J. D. Redmond - TheCyberati Published: August 23, 2011 at 7:01 pm Ebay. The ingenious concept that allows anyone who wants to sell something to not only a national but an international pool of potential buyers. The Ebay success stories of sellers making six...
ebay finance decline censorship Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again (Preview)	CAPP	2	1480	Aug 27, 2011 by budnonymous
Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again By Rick Aristotle Munarriz Posted 3:30PM 08/24/11There was a time when eBay (EBAY) was the cool place to shop. When Tickle Me Elmo dolls, classic vinyl records, and Beanie Babies ran scarce at area retailers, folks would flock to the auction marketplace to see if the...
ebay decline Decay sets into eBay (Preview)	CAPP	0	1158	Feb 11, 2008 by budnonymous
Decay sets into eBay By Geoff Shearer February 12, 2008 12:04am INTERNET behemoth eBay is showing signs of decay. A planned strike by many of its sellers over higher fees and changes to feedback rules has competitors...
ebay decline fail eBay: going, going, gone? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1281	Feb 16, 2008 by budnonymous
eBay: going, going, gone? Online auction giant eBay helped spawn an online nation of shopkeepers. But despite the current online retail boom, the company faces a fight to retain high-volume sellers, the lifeblood of its business. Seller concerns This week, the struggling company, seeki...
paypal decline etsy checkout payments Etsy introduces direct checkout for US sellers, sidesteps PayPal (Preview)	CAPP	0	1614	Feb 13, 2012 by budnonymous
Etsy introduces direct checkout for US sellers, sidesteps PayPal
ebay listing counts charts decline glitch Did ebay lose over 51% of it's listings? (Preview)	CAPP	3	1589	Feb 20, 2012 by budnonymous
According to the chart at PSU, ebaY has lost 51.89% , over 75 million, of it's item listings in the last 24 hours. Uploaded with ImageShack.us hmmmm. the charts at medved are broken at the moment, no data shown for a few days now. I'm guessing this is a 'glitch' with ebay's feed or PSU's charts. Doubtful...
paypal policies turnaround decline holds money transmitter eBay's got a PayPal problem (Preview)	CAPP	0	1299	Feb 25, 2012 by budnonymous
bwhahaha! Trouble in Paradise? eBay's got a PayPal problem February 24, 2012: 12:07 PM ETAs long as eBay has been struggling to right itself, Paypal has been surging. Now, it may be in jeopardy too. By Janet Morrissey, contributor FORTUNE -- Through all eBay's struggles, PayPal has alwa...
ebay rent.com subsudiaries decline eBay selling Rent.com to rental resource Primedia (Preview)	CAPP	0	1106	Mar 24, 2012 by budnonymous
eBay selling Rent.com to rental resource PrimediaBy Rachel King \| March 22, 2012, 3:44pm PDT Summary: Primedia's rental resources are getting stronger now that it is buying Rent.com from eBay. eBay is selling off one of its properties as the online retailer continues to focus on and build out its m...
auctions Heritage Auctions alternatives ebay decline Beetlejuice's 'Handbook For the Recently Deceased' Can Be Yours for $1,800 (Preview)	CAPP	0	1165	Mar 30, 2012 by budnonymous
But not on sleazebay... Beetlejuice's 'Handbook For the Recently Deceased' Can Be Yours for $1,800 Heritage Auctions has the perfect gift for that recently deceased friend or loved one in your life: A real, hardbound copy of The Handbook for the Recently Deceased, the manual for ghosts that "...
ebay decline seller exodus Another Seller Swears Off eBay Forever (Preview)	CAPP	0	1565	May 4, 2012 by budnonymous
Another Seller Swears Off eBay Forever By Laura Northrup on May 2, 2012 11:30 AM There was a time, around approximately 2001, when eBay was a global marketplace where you could easily and efficiently unload items with any market value that you wanted to get rid of. Now, it's more of a global flea market...
paypal layoffs decline EBay's PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs (Preview)	CAPP	4	1374	Nov 9, 2012 by budnonymous
EBay's PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs By Danielle Kucera - 2012-10-13T04:01:00Z EBay Inc. (EBAY)'s PayPal is cutting as many as 400 jobs, or about 3 percent of the workforce, an effort by President David Marcus to reorganize the payment processor and trim costs, a person with knowledge of the...
ebay fashion decline eBay Has Turned Into A 'Fast Fashion Graveyard' (Preview)	CAPP	0	1639	Dec 7, 2012 by budnonymous
eBay Has Turned Into A 'Fast Fashion Graveyard' It was once nearly impossible for the average person to buy an item from a designer's special collection for Target or H&M. Ambitious eBay merchants camped out for days and bought up everything they could once inside the store. For years, they've b...
paypal David Marcus decline reputation Distro Issue 69: Can David Marcus fix PayPal's reputation? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1068	Dec 8, 2012 by budnonymous
Distro Issue 69: Can David Marcus fix PayPal's reputation? It's no secret that PayPal has had its fair share of speed bumps, but can a change in leadership help usher in a new era? The online payment outfit's new president, David Marcus, seeks to do just that and we offer a look at said task inside our wee...
ebay decline traffic TELL ME WHY EBAY 8,214 PAGE VIEWS DEC 2011 329 DEC 2012 ??? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1118	Dec 14, 2012 by budnonymous
TELL ME WHY EBAY 8,214 PAGE VIEWS DEC 2011 329 DEC 2012 ???Dec 14, 2012 10:52 AMCome on im waiting.I know its the Economy. No you have ran off buyers and sellers. With your New SEARCH !!!! Rest assured, ebaY management and their PR spin dept will keep things entertaining for you with diversions and t...
instant sale decline AllTechWholesale Ebay Shuts Down Instant Sale Service For Cash Trade-Ins On Phones And Other Gadgets (Preview)	CAPP	3	1253	Mar 31, 2013 by budnonymous
Ebay Shuts Down Instant Sale Service For Cash Trade-Ins On Phones And Other Gadgets Ebay, the online marketplace that recently added a redesign reminiscent of Pinterest to enhance a personalized experience for its users, is paring down in other areas. Among them, the site has discontinued its In...
ebay fashion decline What Does Neiman Marcus Departure Mean for eBay? (Preview)	CAPP	1	1644	Mar 8, 2013 by budnonymous
hmmm... another failed ebay seller... Don't worry though, there's 10 more ready to replace them. Thu Mar 7 2013 22:08:26 What Does Neiman Marcus Departure Mean for eBay?
Ebay sellers exodus fees Donahoe decline Is ebaY Losing Sellers? “No, not at all” (Preview)	CAPP	0	1246	Jul 23, 2013 by budnonymous
The latest John Donahoe/WallStreet comedy: Is ebaY Losing Sellers? "No, not at all"
decline eBay Reformats Saved Seller Feature (Preview)	CAPP	0	855	May 13, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay Reformats Saved Seller FeatureEcommerceBytes (blog)Written by Ina Steiner ...I too have noticed a few telling indicators that there are fewer and fewer SELLERS on ebay--one has been via my SAVED SELLER list which for some time has had BOTH the indicator tag of NO ITEMS FOR SALE AT THIS TIME an...
ebaY traffic Alexa ranking decline ebaY Starting to Show Rank Decline on Alexa (Preview)	CAPP	2	1256	Sep 10, 2013 by budnonymous
Just checking Alexa for ebaY info. It seems to have dropped from #6 in the USA to #10 at the moment. Somehow still holding at #21 worldwide??? Other tells include overall traffic & reach down, time on site down, bounce up etc. Here's a composite showing ranks starting at January 2013 until now. Not...
ebay decline sellers limits block Guardrail purge video 15,000 ebaY Sellers Get the Axe! (Preview)	CAPP	23	6238	Jan 8, 2014 by budnonymous
A very curious move for an outfit obviously trying to recruit new sellers, yes? Don't forget to give ebaY some luv whenever and wherever possible.15,000 ebaY Sellers Get the Axe! ... According to the principles of ebaY mathematics, this would be a great way to recruit 150 thousand new sellers, sinc...
Donahoe decline eBay Now eBay CEO Sees Excess Capacity in Newspaper Delivery Trucks (Preview)	CAPP	1	1041	Aug 12, 2013 by budnonymous
Thu Aug 8 2013 19:24:50eBay CEO Sees Excess Capacity in Newspaper Delivery Trucks By: Ina Steiner Did eBay's CEO just subtly slam Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post? John Donahoe granted an interview to BusinessWeek in which he shared his thoughts on the company's initiati...
ebay Trading Assistant decline closed Is ebaY Ending It’s Trading Assistant Program? (Preview)	CAPP	2	1187	Aug 28, 2013 by budnonymous
Is ebaY Ending It's Trading Assistant Program? File this under R, for Rumor. rancid, and reaper. It seems that ebaY may be ending the Trading Assistant Program? click through for the 411.
decline isoldit isoldit ~ Inside eBay's Innovation Machine ~ Then and Now (Preview)	CAPP	1	840	Apr 13, 2007 by budnonymous
First, THEN Inside eBay's Innovation Machine By Edward Cone January 2, 2007 Business is steady on an early December afternoon at the iSold It consignment store on Skeet Club Road in High Point, N.C., as customers drop off items to be sold on eBay. Bikes, electronics, power toolsa steady flow of s...
ebay decline credit vouchers promotions promo No Seller Fees! Get Paid with ebaY Vouchers! Who Needs Cash Anyway? (Preview)	CAPP	2	1541	Sep 17, 2013 by budnonymous
Keep 100% of Your Selling Price! Pay No Fees - Limited Time Offer! Bwhahahahahaha! This is a HUGE tell! Ebay is running a promo where sellers will save all listing fees when they agree to be paid with ebaY vouchers instead of real money.No Seller Fees ! Get Paid with ebaY Vouchers! Who Needs Cash Anyway...
ebay decline ebaY employee layoffs and/or terminations? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1036	Nov 2, 2013 by budnonymous
Don't carve this into stone but we've received information suggesting that ebaY may already have, or may be getting ready to terminate or layoff employees. Hard to imagine, eh? More info if & when it becomes available. ...
ebaymotors decline Why eBay Motors is losing traction (Preview)	CAPP	0	842	Nov 7, 2013 by budnonymous
quite an eye-opener. Why eBay Motors is losing tractionNovember 5, 2013 It appears that far fewer people are clicking tires these days for everyday vehicles on eBay Motors. The popular Web site is in transition. I know from buying and selling cars and classic car parts on eBay Motors what's changin...
ebay finance decline global workforce restructuring eBay incurs $26 million in severance, other costs on restructuring (Preview)	CAPP	0	1083	Nov 19, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay incurs $26 million in severance, other costs on restructuring 19 Nov, 2013 New York: E-commerce major eBay has said it incurred about $ 26 million in severance and other costs related to the company's restructuring efforts, which included reducing its global workforce by about 900 people. Th...
ebay finance decline Is It Time for eBay to Bite the Bullet? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1073	Nov 24, 2013 by budnonymous
Is It Time for eBay to Bite the Bullet?by Chad Henage, The Motley FoolNov 24th 2013 9:00AM There comes a time in every stock's life when it must grow up and bite the bullet of adulthood. That's not to say the company won't continue to grow, or that the stock should be sold. In fact, there might be decades o...
ebay decline shopping ebates ebates.com - Cash Back is not available at eBay (Preview)	CAPP	0	1239	Nov 26, 2013 by budnonymous
They've been off and on a few times over now. Back to "off". It's hilarious seeing their TV ads, where sleazebay doesn't even get a mention. No one who sees them will be going anywhere near sleazebay. Cash Back is not available at eBay Unfortunately, eBay is not able to offer Cash Back at thi...
ebay personnel exodus decline Cassini Hugh Williams eBay Loses Chief Architect of Cassini Search Engine (Preview)	CAPP	1	2680	Jan 15, 2014 by budnonymous
Comedy gold! eBay Loses Chief Architect of Cassini Search Engine That links to the blog there where the comments are open My own somewhat snarky summary:Does eBay Search Engine Architect's Ejection Confirm Cassini Castrophony?
rewards decline discontinuance ebaY Bucks ebaY Bucks Rewards Butchered! (Preview)	CAPP	0	965	Dec 28, 2013 by budnonymous
Ah yes, the sweet sound of ebay decline!ebaY Bucks Rewards Butchered! A quick trip to the ebay forums shows members are not digging this spur-of-the-moment move too much. Keep up the great work sleazebay!
ebaY Chris Saridakis personnel exodus decline EBay says head of its enterprise business resigns (Preview)	CAPP	1	2571	Jan 15, 2014 by budnonymous
EBay says head of its enterprise business resigns Alistair Barr, USA TODAY 7:41 p.m. EST January 15, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO - EBay said Wednesday that the head of the e-commerce company's enterprise business is leaving after lackluster growth in 2013. Chris Saridakis, president of eBay Enterprise,...