Dan Buchanon

Microsoft and eBay Team Up: Desperate or Brilliant?

Wow. "Monkeyman", your information is exceptionally retarded. Go read some SEC filings and cull out some financial data on the companies you reference. Google Check out is a pittance. An absolutely smudge of a business.

On Dec 03 06:45 PM monkeyman wrote:
>
> I said "I would think PayPal and the financial sector would have
> been their most obvious expansion, but this has been going slow and
> only accelerated a bit when Google started Google Checkout." Most
> of the growth in Paypal and Skype only started / was scene early-mid
> 2007.
>
> How fast has Google Checkout grown and how fast did the PayPal shopping
> cart grow? When auction sales slump on eBay, so does the stock price
> and revenue, ( how much of PayPal's revenue is tied into payments
> for ebay purchases? ). My argument is that eBay could have grown
> without raising auction/listing fees or PayPal fees, but that is
> the route they chose.
>
> I didn't bother mentioning Skype because of its initial reason for
> being purchased, to integrate with eBay and provide sellers a communications
> infrastructure.
>
> My point has to do more with the how eBay started out and the mantra
> behind the company to make it an equal market place for both the
> big and little guys, and this is no longer the case because the auctions
> are still what define eBay (as a stock), i.e. if there is data showing
> eBay listings are down and sales are down, the stock is significantly
> affected.

Microsoft and eBay Team Up: Desperate or Brilliant?

Monkeyman - How can you say that the company lacks diversification? Please do your homework. PayPal is a $2+ Billion company. With revenue coming from merchant services business greater than what is being derived from eBay.com. Skype is a $500+million company. More than 54% of revenue comes from outside the U.S.