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 Send to email | Was eBay a fad? in General |  By Rough Ty
el 03-Jun-2008 | We already know that the famously cute story of eBay's origin - founder Pierre Omidyar launched the site to help his fiancee trade the PEZ dispensers she collected - was a lie cooked up by a PR operative. We also know that the company's vaunted "reputation system" - the foundation of what has long been perceived as a radically new kind of self-organizing and self-policing commercial community - has been crumbling. Now we're beginning to...
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| eBay to offload StumbleUpon |  Having a little bit of buyer’s remorse there, eBay? According to TechCrunch, eBay may be looking to sell off StumbleUpon after acquiring the company a mere 18 months ago for $75 million. An anonymous source claims that eBay has hired Deutsche bank to help them find the right buyer. No asking price has been mentioned [...]
[..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Sep-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in RumorsServiceseBaysaleStumbleUpon
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| SURPRISE! eBay Price Changes Worked | | The quarter was dominated by howls of outrage from eBay (EBAY) sellers who boycotted the site, screamed bloody murder, etc., over eBay's new fee changes, but the move appears to have worked. As Bear's Bob Peck report [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Mar-2008 by Silicon in EBAY
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| eBay Traffic Plummeting (EBAY) |  eBay's (EBAY) core business continues to fall apart. Some of the decline is likely the result of the declining economy. The rest of it is likely the result of the trends that have been clobbering eBay for the past two years: [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Nov-2008 by Alley In in EBAY
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| Crowd control at eBay | | If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people are able to form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt come across glowing descriptions of eBay's feedback system. By providing buyers and sellers with a simple means for rating one another, eBay has been able, we've been told, to avoid lots of rules and [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| eBay Beats Estimates, Outlook Only In-Line |  Ebay (EBAY): Revenue and EPS beat consensus, but outlook only in-line despite strong quarter. Core marketplace business showed good strength in listings, revenue, and GMV, but active users grew only 1% year over year. eBay needs to get this metric moving in the right direction soon, or the turnaround will not be sustainable. Business in UK and US hurt b [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Apr-2008 by Silicon in CFOEBAYGMV
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