Quite frankly, nothing would surprise me at this point.

from a local forum:

Ebay is going to do an Enron its finished

here is the curious part [among others---]
(edited to break into paragraphs, & emphasis -- mine)

"Saying people will come back to ebay if they shape up is a bunch of
nonsensical gibberish. Thats like saying the Jewish are going back to
stay at the concentration camps because the Germans are turning them 5
star hotels. Get it?

For every one stock holder or ebayer on the net
expressing their disgust with the blatant abuse from ebay their are
thousands reading it that feel the same way and millions thinking it.

I am as about inside as you can get with this company. If i owned
this stock I would dump it, people telling you else wise are just
cheerleaders.

I too use to be small time on ebay but built my way up
to an empire. They will treat any seller like dirt, my business
included. 10+ plus years gets you no credit, "nada" with ebay or
paypal, big or small. If there is a problem they treat you like a
criminal.

Every seller is more than tired of it. Ebay is clammering
in every direction to make a cheap buck they even went as far as to
sell competitors advertisement "inside" your auction page that you
created and paid for. I mean could you imagine buying a TV spot for
your product and at the same time your commercial was running they had
a competitors ad in the bottom corner with their phone #.

Again this is the mind set of a company that thinks its invincible, but where
ebay messed up is that weather they like it or not ebay does not run
ebay the sellers do. They pay the bills. When was the last time
ebay.com sold something on ebay.com??? how about NEVER. They have no
inventory hence no control over the company.

Piss off the masses and
see what happens.... your stock tanks to $12. And all of a sudden
Pierre Omidyar, ebays founder, is worth about 2 billion Where as pre
dumass "John D." he was worth approx 6 billion. So the way I see it
someone owes someone about 4 billion for being incompetent.

This is what is going to happen guys... the majority of big sellers on ebay
are selling of their current holiday inventory, now this may lag on
through the month of Jan. but not much.

So ebay has been paying big sellers like me up to 33% of the items value, to go to go around and buy ebay items. And have been the last 139 days 2 peroids of 70 days each which end tomorrow Nov.14. I will let you know if they send me an email reinstate it for another 70 days but it wont matter.

Bottom line here is ebay has been using its own money to pay big sellers to
buy ebay items which creates a pseudo ebay economy. After that
listings will plummet and as part of the equation sales will plummet,
they will have to.

Ebays rev. will plummet, as last ditch effort
ebay will offer free listings and or drastically reduced fee's, to
the minority of sellers left, causing rev. to plummet further stock
will tank. And they will reflect. Agreed it really isn't even
worth discussing:)"




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